Tag: Trees

Snow Shadows

I am ready to be done with snow and winter. I’m ready for sun. And warmth. And flowers. But that isn’t happening. We have yet another winter storm headed our way for the weekend. My kids have now missed so much school they will be going later than I ever remember them going. They only have a handful of days left to miss before they are no longer required to make up any more. I didn’t even realize that was a thing. BG has also missed so many dance classes because of the weather, they’ve had to make up a special schedule for make up classes or these poor kids won’t know their routines for recital.

I try really hard to not wish for tomorrow to get here. Trying instead to enjoy the day I have in front of me, but the cold and the dreary are starting to get to me. Even as pretty as winter has been, giving me loads of wonderful opportunities for photos, I’m beyond ready to get to the point I can open my windows again.

Stark Contrast

When I was out the other day doing my snow hike and filling my camera with lovely images, I had a couple come out… odd. I love them, but… they look like I edited them or applied some sort of filter to them. I didn’t. The first one I noticed was a pic I took of BG in front of a bunch of snow covered trees. When I got home and got it in my computer, it looked like I had Photoshoped her in. It was such a weird look. Cool, but weird.

This was the other one. When I looked at this it looked like I’d run it through some art filter that gave the image way more outlines than should have been there, especially towards the top of the image. Again, nope. This is entirely untouched. It is kind of interesting what kinds of weird things can come out in an image when you just use a camera and nature.

Resonance

I obviously enjoy a wide range of books across many genres, but the ones that tend to stick with me the most are the ones that can give me a story about the imperfections of humanity and do so with a strong emotional impact, be it through humor, joy, anger, love, tears or grief. As long as the story fully engages my emotions, I’m probably going to really enjoy it, but even more so if it has a central focus on family.

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Searching And Questioning

My steps towards finding an editor have been… interesting. Yet again, expectations and reality didn’t quite meet up. After a few initial conversations and some deeper digging, I’ve discovered that I am probably looking at several thousand dollars to go through an entire process of different levels of editing as well as cover and design work for my book.

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Crazy Mode

It is officially recital weekend and I’m in crazy mode. Yesterday was all about running around and getting some last minute things taken care of (why it takes until last minute before she realizes she needs some of these kinda important things is beyond me). Today won’t be much better because I, again, managed to add another thing to my to do list when I offered to make the recital bouquets for BG and her dance friend.

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