Twilight

"Twilight again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always must come to an end." Edward in Twilight 

"Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower" - You've Got Mail

Just needed a little sunshine today. It has been so nice and now it's rainy and gloomy. :( 

Spring needs to HURRY! 

Thought for today

"I don't know how long I can do this, he said. I think the universe has different plans for me and we sat there in silence and I thought to myself that this is the thing we all come to and this is the thing we all fight and if we are lucky enough to lose our lives become beautiful with mystery again and I sat there silent because that is not something that can be said." - Story People 

Thought for the day..

"I learned not to look too closely, she said, otherwise I'd keep finding out stuff that would bug me and we'd never get along" - Story People 

Yes, again with Story People, it is the most amazing site. So many wonderful "stories". 

TGIF I'm so happy the sun is out, it is warm, I'm sure that winter is only teasing us but it's nice while it lasts... 

Maybe, just maybe I'll be able to get out this weekend and shoot and not freeze my fingers off. 

For you!

Holding on to everything that I have, holding on to youth, holding on to memories, holding on to friendships... 

I found this little feather yesterday desperately holding on to this twig, holding so tightly...what a beautiful thing, to hold on dearly to the things and people that we love. 

Photography has allowed me to express every feeling, good or bad. If it's a bad feeling I usually feel so much better after having tried to portray it through a photo... if it's good, well then I want to shout it from the roof tops! 

This is to my photographer friends, you all know who you are. You have encouraged me, tutored me, helped me, and supported me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, I would not be the photographer that I am today if it weren't for you! 

And HBW fellow photogs! 

"She has a choice, she can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle... she fails in the end, but there's something beautiful, even heroic in her rebellion" - Little Children 

I think that this winter I have read more than in a year. I completed  the Twilight series of books (4 in all) in two weeks, read "Little Children" and "Say When" the next two weeks. Winter does that to me, makes me pull into my "cancer" shell and shut out the rest of the world, except when I took this it made me feel like a new person. If you don't have a passion then you won't understand, but for me, getting outside, even in 10* weather, and taking photos and making them my own makes me feel so damn good. I need to do it more, I was only out there for 10 minutes, but damn it felt good. 

"I'm the kind of girl who can resist anything but temptation." - Melanie Griffith 

Well, who could resist a glass of wine and some bokeh? 

Hope everyone is having a grand Thursday. 

Kids went back to school, YAY! 

Xmas waves a magic wand over this world and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale 

8 days until Christmas and I am NOT in the Christmas spirit. I think it's because in the span of a year my holiday traditions have shifted. My maternal grandma passed away last year, two days after Thanksgiving, we used to go to her house on Christmas day. In June my paternal grandmother had a stroke and now we are living in her house, we used to come out here for Xmas Eve... it's all going to be a bit strange this year. 

Anyway, enjoy the "bokeh" :) 

Oh, and I'm STILL iced in, I pray for human contact today. No my kids aren't human, not when you are have cooped up with them for three days. :P