One test, that is it, all that is holding me back from being done with college and being able to become a full time creative. It is amazing to me how different right brained people are from left brained people. Polar opposites I tell you. For some odd reason I decided to leave math as my last course to finish, coming from classes where I was drawing, taking pictures, and coming up with artistic lesson plans for first graders, my brain did not want to think numbers. Well, I have almost made it out. January has been killing me because all I want to be doing is taking pictures for all you wonderful people out there. Instead I have been stuck inside my prison cell of arithmetic.

I have been taking my camera everywhere with me lately because I have wanted to try and do a shot a day (I keep hearing about these 365 projects and I admire those of you that can stay on top of them!) Mine might be more like a shot a week, maybe the 52 plan, BUT I have really been enjoying how different every single day it (visually speaking) so I have been shooting it and this particular shot just seems to fit in with my topic this week… There is light at the end of the tunnel, I can see it, almost feel it, taste it (except I don’t think light taste like anything, but you get the point.) The light and landscape were doing some fun things this particular day, so I added a few more shots to make the post more fun.

This past weekend we travelled to Yellowstone National Park for a weekend of camping and sightseeing (I wouldn’t really call it relaxing because I have been tired all week because of how much we accomplished in two days there). Yellowstone is one of my favorite places to go, it really provides opportunities to see things that many only view in magazines and the beauty of everything there is absolutly surreal. The first night as we were driving we had a bear encounter. For those of you who have been to Yellowstone, you know that when there is a crowd you stop. This was not just a crowd, it was more like a mob of people who had made the two lane road into a parking lot. No one could drive through if they wanted to. He was about 40 yards away and before I knew it he was 4 feet away…. people were scattering, jumping in the back of trucks, and I was trying to keep my camera to my face as I backed away because I didn’t want to stop looking. Bears, very cute and cuddly from far away, up close you suddenly realize he could kill you with one paw. That may have been the greatest adrenaline rush I have experienced in this lifetime. The general realization I had while we were there was our life is fragile, there are so many things greater then us in this world. Maybe that is why it is so exciting to visit these places, to come face to face with the things that are more powerful then us. Enjoy!