I think, despite several setbacks, this trip might be the best birthday trip Les and I have ever taken. It all started when Les realized that the town my dad lives in was directly in the path of totality. And…
2017 has been a crazy year, and I’ve been avoiding being online whenever possible in an effort not to hate everyone and everything all the time. It’s kinda working. But that means I’ve been neglecting my Playing Card Photography Challenge,…
I have found through the years, that I do better when I challenge myself, and I take better photos when I have an excuse to always have my camera with me. I’ve done 2 successful 365 photo challenges, and I…
I kinda don’t want to do this post this year, but it’s become a tradition, so here it is. January In January Les and I got really into benchmark hunting and we traveled pretty much all of Historic Route 66…
Maybe this election cycle has made me full of hate, maybe I just had a bad day, maybe it’s because I’m getting older and I’m falling victim to the fallacy that the world is becoming a worse place as I…
October zoomed by for me. I barely got a grip on fall coming and it’s already Halloween. That means another last-minute, rushed blog post. I didn’t intend for it to go that way, this month is my favorite one of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott,_Arizona#Climate September is a time of transitions. It is the last month where you really get that quiet, otherworldly time before dawn, when the sky is starting to lighten and the world is starting to wake up, but isn’t quite…
This month I turned 30, and according to the internet that means I’m supposed to either be all introspective and deep, or freaking out and getting botox. Since I hate needles and I don’t really care about getting older, I’m…
When Les and I first started dating he told me he wasn’t a cat person. I told him that was a deal breaker. When we moved in together in the spring of 2005, we went to the shelter and picked…
Les and I have been together for more than 11 years, in that amount of time you learn idiosyncrasies about a person, their quirks and odd habits, their eccentricities and peculiarities. It took me a while to notice one of Les’s.…