ready

It looks impressive, doesn't it?

another 4 years ago

I wish I was there. Anywhere but here. Can't remember the name of the lighthouse or town but it's in Maine. It was the beginning of August and there was a nice breeze. Not suffocating heat. Such a distant memory.

studio stuff

Another picture from the class I took. It's a martini glass (I think) taken with studio lights and a backdrop and all that stuff.

yikes

OK obviously I didn't take this one, but I just thought I would post the most random group shot EVER (at least for me). I can't tell you how uncomfortable I was (no, I don't know these people at all)...again, from the "lighting" class I took that turned out to be a studio lighting class.

stalked

I took this picture in the photo class I took last month. Thought it was funny. And much more interesting than any of the other shots I got.

back to fluff

I know this picture is too dark but I don't care. I like it. I took it when the leaves first came out on the tree we planted and I was very excited. I like trees. I wish we had more of them.

tired

Listening to the president talk about "the war with Islamic fascists" makes me want to eat the whole bottle of migraine medicine.

sick

I'm like the average person: I see enough horrible pictures to be desensitized to a large extent. But today I came across one that made me feel absolutely sick. It was a photo of body bags of victims of the current Israel/Lebanon thing, and they were see-through bags, and the one in the middle contained a little boy wearing a spiderman shirt. I don't know why this one affected me more than others, but I had to shut my eyes and I felt like throwing up.

It just makes me sick. It's not political. It's about human lives, humanity, decency.

So many people support wars, fighting, "defending" whatever seems important, when they are not the ones involved. Not just this war. The other war. All of the other wars. Really, they're all the same, just with different innocent people dead.

What if it was our children in bags, our children lying dead in the streets, our families torn apart by bombs? Would it be different? Would there be such an outpouring of blind support?

Or would more people want it to end?

kitty at the abba

This is the cat we met at the place we stayed this weekend for our anniversary.

If you are interested there are more pictures here.

It's some kind of miracle. We've never had pictures edited and uploaded the same day they were taken. Crazy. Like some kind of parallel universe.

vbs

I finally got a chance to start editing VBS pictures.

Finished them, too.

They are here.

get me out!

Reason Not to Live in Texas #738:

I just don't work well when I never know when a huge roach is going to come running out of nowhere straight towards me.

Ugh.

anniversary flowers

Darek is a good flower picker outer.