friday i'm in love...
and yeah. i am still totally editing photos from the fall. i'm a procrastinator.
♥ with the Pocket feature. It's an easy way to bookmark/save things that interest you and it recommends other items for you based on your activity which I know creeps some people out but I kinda like. Plus I have the Pocket app on my phone so I can easily save things for my blog when I am out and about. :)
♥ this article on journalling...which I was totally going to do more of this year. And started off strong! But have faltered a little. I blame winter. And dark mornings. And cold that sucks the ever loving energy out of me. (Please see this same reason in relation to why I have not been going to the gym).
♥ i have been rewatching friends from the beginning. And I have been loving it. I will never get tired of that show. And it was exciting to realize that I might have been watching an episode that I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
♥ and speaking of high quality tv shows...have you seen this??? oh my little 80's heart.
♥ did you ever read an article and wonder how the author wrote about your life...the title alone says it all in this case... A Case for Trying (Really) Hard to Make Friends as an Adult ...
♥ life goals...what i want to be when i grow up
♥ oh my heart. Can i grow this in my backyard this year? I did manage to make sunflowers last year.
♥ and since i am gushing about beautiful things that i wish that i had created....
and not really part of friday i'm in love
but i did something today that i was
pretty proud of
and in all honesty
terrified the everloving hell out of me
as well.
i wrote a short story
and submitted it to an annual contest
that our local writer's guild holds
called Battle Tales.
they give you 3 prompts and an allowance
of 2500 words or less
and a week to write a short story and submit
and
for once in my life
i said i was going to do something
AND I DID IT.
i submitted the story tonight
and promptly felt like vomiting as soon as i hit
submit.
but i did it. no matter what happens, i followed through
and finished something for once
when it comes to writing...
i sent it to a friend whose opinion i take very seriously.
we tend to like the same writers and although she is my best friend
she is also brutally honest....
she sent me a message the next morning that said
"this is fucking dynamite. submit it."
:) :) :) :) :)
i literally wanted to print that out & wear it on a tshirt, it made me so happy.
so...keep your fingers crossed for me...
but no matter what happens, i'm happy that i made it
as far as the submit button...
it's good to put yourself out there sometimes
and see what happens,
even if it does make you feel like vomiting momentarily.
(that actually might be a sign that you are
moving in the right direction).
crazy weird weather...
it was like 15 degrees today.
i took the dog out and
it was so nice out that
i walked took my camera
and walked over to the park
by my house...
in a hoodie...
a thin hoodie...
in January...
IN CANADA.
i took some pictures
and jumped in a few puddles
(what is the point of rubber boots
if you are NOT going to jump in the puddles?)
and then the weather changed...
like instantly.
in about a second, it felt like it dropped 3 degrees...
i turned around to see this
wall of mist and fog rolling in...
it was bizarre
and a little creepy.
but it was nice to get out of the house...
i don't usually leave the house until april...
sometimes may, to be honest.
man-eating snails
or...could also be
about how maybe i tend to exaggerate
for comedic purposes...
heh.
but
as promised yesterday
here is part 2
of my friday-adventure-on-a-holiday-monday
because i know you were sitting on the edge
of your seat refreshing the webpage
just waiting for part two, right? heh.
dirt road #2
as i was leaving fort amherst
i saw this dirt road
and remembered how i told myself
that under no circumstances
were you going to go on dirt roads today...
but...
really...would you be able to say no to THIS dirt road?
it's on a hill!
who KNOWS what could be on the other side!
maybe a candy store...
or a space ship
or a herd of goats
in pajamas
or
a frigging cool lighthouse
you've never seen before.
(ummmm...it was the lighthouse, if you didn't guess...)
and such a pretty view!
and this....isn't it cute! that roof. ♥♥♥ it's so fairy tale-ish...in a decrepit kind of way...
and where are the non-man-eating snails i promised? you ask
well...next, i came across this place
which is burned into my memory
because
a) i love love love that broken down wharf
b) i did wedding photos here for the sweetest couple AND
c) we lost the bride's engagement ring on the beach here
and it was horrifying and awful and stressful but then a man
came along & asked us what we were doing
(the whole wedding party and myself on hands and knees
digging in sand frantically) and he offered to go home & get
his metal detector...we went to the reception and this sweet man
FOUND the engagement ring and that's reason #345 235 why i love PEI...
(plus there are no bobcats).
it was fun to climb on
but that's how i noticed the snails...
i saw one at first
but then i realized there were hundreds!
and then...the drive home...
which found me on
dirt road #3...
but i'm so glad i
didn't take my own advice.
and that was the end of another adventure...
i know it was a low blow to trick you with man eating snails...
i hope the pretty dirt roads made up for it.
:)
fall friday adventure...on a monday
i feel i should give a disclaimer here
so you can decide
whether or not
you want to
continue reading this post.
there will be pictures.
oodles and oodles of pictures.
:)
it's fall on PEI...
every 3 steps makes you want to stop
and grab your camera.
i am going to try
really, really hard
to control myself...
but i apologize in advance.
(see? I couldn't even get through the
disclaimer/apology
without posting THREE photos already!)
thanksgiving monday
i went for a drive...i had no plan at all...
although i did tell myself
there would be NO dirt roads.
it rained hard the night before
and i did not want to get stuck
dirt road #1 of the day...i listen to myself well.
and after some aimless meandering...
& a couple of middle of the road shots
which the mom in me KNOWS are a bad idea
but i still just can't stop myself
ended up in fort amherst
where i have been once before shooting
wedding photos
but didn't realize that there were trails.
luckily i know now that there is an airport in Charlottetown and will not embarrass myself by ducking and running for cover wondering why no one else is panicking that a plane is OBVIOUSLY going to crash...not that that happened to me before...well...i was only young.
while i was walking through here
i heard a loud noise
right above me...
like the swooping/rustling of giant wings...
the path opens up to a trail that
runs along the beach
but when i looked back
i could see this bird circling overhead
i thought it might be an eagle
and i have always wanted to see one up close
so i went back towards the woods...
but then i was disappointed
because i couldn't see him anymore...
but then
there he was.
perched up on a tree branch about
TEN feet away from me!
i was so excited.
i started taking pictures
and felt all National Geographic
until
he
turned
his
head
and looked right at me
and suddenly
i started thinking
do eagles attack people?
does it depend on your height?
(don't ask me why i wondered that...
i think it had something to do with thinking
an eagle might carry off a small dog
but not a big dog
hence a short person
but not a tall one...
i can't explain how my brain works).
i quickly moved to a different spot
where i could still see him
but maybe he wouldn't notice me
and texted my husband to see
if he felt that an eagle might attack
a short person
on a trail if he mistook the
clicking noises the camera was making
for a gun instead.
my husband gave his usual answer...
"lol".
so i walked back to my car
and celebrated surviving my
close encounter with wildlife
by eating the most amazing
s'mores doughnut from tim hortons
that i bought on a whim
but it was SO GOOD.
i'm not sure if it was just the
exhilaration of my narrow escape
from the clutches of a giant bird
that made it taste so good...
or the fact that i was starving...
but it was damn good.
i went other places and took other photos that day
but this post is already way too long
so...i'll show you the man eating snails tomorrow.