Thirty one.
Thirty one days of January completed. Here's to the next twenty nine that February has!!

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. ~Swami Vivekananda
{31/365}

It is so hard getting use to the cold...

Especially because last week this time we were sinking our toes in the sand...**sigh**

Eight years ago.
When I just really started to get into photography, the picture below was one of my most favorite moments I ever captured of my two. I remember the day as if it was yesterday...I just turned around to walk back to the blanket when I happened to look up and see both of them sitting together staring out into the waters of Glendale Lake. I remember grabbing my camera and snapping the shutter...freezing time...capturing that moment forever! Everytime I look at this image it brings me back to that exact moment, the warm sun, the breeze blowing in our faces.

And, I remember after I got the roll of film developed, how I was so estatic being able to capture such a sweet moment shared between the two of them. And, ever since that day, I have had it hanging on my living room wall. It is one of my most favorite pictures that I never, ever will replace in the frame it hangs in.

Then, this past week, eight years later....the same moment happened again. I just turned my back to walk back to our beach towels and I looked up and I saw this...

Another special moment in time, frozen, captured forever!! And, I absolutely adore it!!!! That is why I love photography so much...not the posed, cheesey smiles...but the everyday moments of life is it what I love capturing the most. Special moments shared between them, frozen and imprinted on my heart forever.

Destination ~Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Way back in June, I went to a psyhic lady with a bunch girls from work. In one of her predictions, she predicted that I would have a trip in the near future that would consists of sand and water....yeah right!! I even rolled my eyes and chuckled when she mentioned it.

Never in a million years would I have thought that the prediction would come true...considering my husband hates the sand and the beach and the hot sun. So, I totally blew it off.

Then the opportunity arose in October...a trip to Florida for a whole week. Nothing but sun, sand, surf and lots of relaxtion. Oh yes please, sign me up!! Reservations were made, airline tickets were booked and...last week, for seven whole days, we enjoyed the time of our lives that included sand and water.

And, it was the most amazingly, beautiful and relaxing vacation we have had in five years. We could not have asked for any better weather!! High 70's the whole time and sun. Pure bliss!

I have so many wonderful memories that I cannot simply wait to to start to go through all of them!!!! But, now I am back to reality and must go brush the snow off my car and head off to work. More to share later!!!

{day 29}
On day 29, one day after we return home from our vacation...I literally have thousands of pictures to download...six camera cards completely full; 4,515 images to be exact!!! Yikes!!!

My husband asked...."So do you think you took a thousand pics?" Uh...yup! Kind of like quadruple that!!!! Ha!! But, I didn't tell him that!!! And, that does not include about 300 taken on my Iphone.

I still have to do some catching up for my 365...as soon as I get organized and settled back into the bitter cold, I will post the ones for the days that I missed being away from the computer.


And, lots and lots of VK photos!!! All 4,515 of them!! Just kidding!!! No, seriously, I'm kidding!!! Well, sort of!!!

A good excuse.
I really have been MIA for a good reason....


Because where we were, there was just not much internet access....just lots of sun and sand. More to come....

Frosty.
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination...


{19/365}

A quote.
Just another quote I stumbled upon and fell in love with....and had to share.

The most important thing about love is that we choose to give it, and we choose to receive it - making it the least random act in the entire universe. it transcends blood, it transcends betrayal, and all of the dirt that makes us human.