The Beach

Life at the Lake

In Case You Haven't Noticed...

It's Snowy and Wintery Outside...

Here is, yet again, a post dedicated to winter-

An icy conglomerate.

The snow hanging onto the tree limb.

Last shot before sunset.

The Beach in the Winter

Things That Fall

Yellow Blanket



Party of Three

Fire

The Circle of Life

Happy Veteran's Day

In honor of Veteran's Day....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkGzqpGx1KU&feature=related

and the 2nd part...as if you haven't cried enough....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSTKoKjJ5XA&feature=related

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all the soldiers who have forfeited time with their own families to serve our country.

Color of the Sky

...What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle.
What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel.
What I thought was an injustice
turned out to be a color of the sky.
Outside the youth center, between the liquor store
and the police station,
a little dogwood tree is losing its mind;
overflowing with blossomfoam,
like a sudsy mug of beer;
like a bride ripping off her clothes,
dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds,
so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene.
It’s been doing that all week:
making beauty,
and throwing it away,
and making more.

(from Tony Hoagland's "Color of the Sky")

Beautiful Friends Beautiful Life

I told you it wouldn't be long until I posted something else about Spain. I couldn't resist. I felt it necessary to put the pictures that I took of my friends in Spain in its own post. I can't say enough about these girls. They already know how much I love them but I feel I need to say it again. Every single one of them has made me a better person in their own way. I have no idea where I would be without them and I feel so lucky to have shared, yet again, such an amazing experience with them.