Neil Young would probably approve

This past Sunday I paid a visit to my parent's house.  They live out in the country where there are barns, livestock, and lots of corn fields everywhere.  You can hear a lot out because the sound really travels.  Here's a good example of what I mean......while outside in their driveway getting something out of the car, I could not only hear faint music from the house all the way across the field - I could identify the musician AND the song.

Ryan Adams - World War 24.  (good song by the way)

Since the sun was starting to set I said to my mom, "I have to go photograph.  I'll be back."  With that, I grabbed my camera and disappeared into the corn field.  I had forgotten how much I miss being out in the country and how many wonderful things there are to look at through the lens. 

Once the moon appeared I thought, huh...Harvest Moon.  So that's what I called this photo. 

Happy October, people.  Carve a pumpkin or something.

Choose your own adventure

Remember those books when you were little?  The books where you can decide what you want to happen next and the character takes a different path?  Well, real life is actually like that.  Except things don't always turn out the way we expect them to even when we think we know what's going to happen down that path we've chosen.

Shit happens.

We may not be able to control what happens in life, but we certainly can control how we react.  Attitude is everything.  Instead of "why me?", the question really should be "what wonderful things are in store for me?" because tough times are the stepping stones in our lives.  You could be reading this thinking, this chick is annoying.  Positivity blah blah blah, get over yourself.  But focusing on the negative (and I've said it before), only spreads more negativity.  Wouldn't you rather be thankful for what you do have instead of wishful for what you don't?  It's tough, but it can be done.  Let this blog entry be a reminder to myself to look back on during the hard days. 

You could be here one day and gone the next.  So live in the moment cause Forrest Gump was spot on.... 

Life is like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you're gonna get.

I collect these

Dog days

Lila in her element - with a shoe.  It's the simple things.

Circles and circles, got to stop spinning

I don't have much to say about these images, other than this is something that has always caught my eye....and since they were taken at work, this is a sight I see every day.  Some might think, why take a picture of something like this?  Well, I say....why NOT take a picture of something like this?  Shapes and light.  Exactly what can make ordinary things look remarkable.  At least to me!

Anyway, now that I'm being diligent about toting my camera around with me I was able to actually snap the shot rather than think, "that would be an interesting photograph"...

In the words of Olivia Newton John...

Let's get physical.

This is me.  Post workout.  I couldn't choose an image for today so I snapped a few after my 'self created' workout today.  It consisted of this: turn iPod on shuffle, skip through til you get to fast song you want to dance to.  Dance, jumping jacks, kickbox, grab handweights, do shadowboxing with weights, dance some more.  Repeat it all.  Add other stuff too, whatever makes you sweat and feel the burn.  It's actually pretty great.  May I just say that my favorite tracks this time around were the following:

1. Happiness in Slavery - Nine Inch Nails
2. Gold Digger - Kanye West
3. Fat Chance - 311

The only thing that would've made it more fun is if I had someone in my place to have participated in a dance-off with me.  I just noticed that it looks like my left arm has a nodule or something.  Nope.  That is actually my vein.  The American Red Cross people love me.  Yay for sweaty self portrait.  Aren't you glad you clicked my blog link today?

you came in with the breeze on Sunday morning

Sunday morning coffee.  Royal Blue blend from Zeke's Coffee is divine.

and a little No Doubt reference there on the post title, just because it came to me all of a sudden and it is of course, Sunday.