This is from September, that's how behind I am on making and processing photographs. Le sigh. To post more, I have to make more. I'm slowly rehabilitating this practice.
This photograph has a soundtrack, the wonderful song "Ghost Town" by the Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit:
Their new album "The Lion's Roar" is fantastic, and I highly recommend checking it out. Sometimes, their voices make me shiver.
I'm now in some crazy-busy times - I am taking a Proficiency Exam in order to graduate from my Masters' Program (along with my last two classes), which involves writing two 8-12 page papers in two weeks on two separate topics which I just chose out of 10 possible. No pressure, though, nope.
Our attic is empty; yesterday the basement was triaged, and old boxes were bound up for the recycling center. Old furniture goes to the curb on Tuesday evening to be picked over.
So I'm in deep waters, but I swim, I'm a swimmer. So I'm keeping on. But I feel somewhat tied with heavy ropes to these particular railroad tracks (by a cackling villain in a top hat twiddling a handlebar moustache). Still, after I'm untied, I'll come back to you someday.
We're back home as of today; now begins the re-integration into life. It was an excellent vacation in so many ways, and I'll have many things to blog about. For now, here's a photo of the place I left Saturday morning, and where I'd love to still be: Silver Bay, NY on Lake George in the Adirondacks.
I don't know what these are really called, but Jillian calls them "red hot pokers".
Greetings from Ann Arbor, where it's very hot, but kind of awesome, and we have eaten many delicious foods, swum in a too-warm Midwestern lake, and partied with derby girls.
Not to mention, played several rounds of Settlers of Catan. I think another round is starting up now, in fact. Hope you are all having a wonderful Fourth of July weekend if you live in the States; and a generally wonderful summer weekend wherever you may be!
This is from my first shoot with the new DSLR camera. I'm so in love, and we've only just met. We have such a long way to travel together, and so much to learn.