Distance makes the heart grow fonder.. and the mind go crazy

While looking through and adjusting my photos, I couldn't help picking this one and calling it, "Distance". My husband has been living away from me for over 8 months. It's been the hardest time of my life. I've mentioned it before, but he's working a contract IT job in Afghanistan and won't be home until August. My heart goes out to everyone who has a loved one out there, it's so painful. He's my best friend and to have him so far away just tears me up inside, everything around me seems wrong and life is harder than usual. I don't do well without him and yesterday was an extremely hard day for me. I blame myself for my attitude and the way I act when I'm so down. I'm like a totally different person, I get angry more easily, I'm clingy and emotional, it's just bad lol! When I talked to him last night on skype, I took it all out on him. I really shouldn't have. I feel awful and everything I say seems to come out wrong as I try and make up for it. He's stuck by me even though I was a complete mess and I love him as much more for it.

This was taken on a long road that runs next to our main freeway called, Sears Road. It's gorgeous and I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot more pictures of it. It's my favorite road to just drive down when I feel like to need to escape :)

Isn't he dashing? ;)

Small town life

I can't tell you how excited I was when I looked outside yesterday and saw the sun, haha! It was warm and sunny so I grabbed my camera, my mom and we soaked in as much vitamin D as we could. As we started the walk we noticed neighbors that we hadn't seen in months. Here in the Pacific Northwest if it's rainy and cold, our neighbors like to hibernate. I have to admit, I'm one of those neighbors as well. Just a few feet from our house we ran into two different neighbors who were gardening, the other was playing with her new dog, so I just thought I'd show you what I see when I go for walks. Here's a glimpse into my world and the beauty of a small town :)

Lightroom 4, let's see how you work...

My husband is amazing!! Totally surprised me with Lightroom 4, I'm super excited! I'm still learning how to do everything on it, but this is the first picture I've messed with and I was finally able to add the watermark. I probably did it completely wrong, but I'm sure I'll figure that out later. This is a portrait of my brother, Eric, whom I've posted on here in the past. Enjoy :D

I see a red door and I want to paint it black

I grew up watching old black and white movies. When I was 10 years old the scariest movie I ever saw were, The Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock and in middle school one of my favorite movies was Rebecca, also Hitchcock. I used to envy Ginger Rogers' grace, wanted to look like Audery Hepburn, and fell in love with Cary Grant. As I became a little bit better at photography I started liking to make them black and white, it just gives me a sense of comfort and gives it a classic touch. It can also be mysterious and make a, not a pretty, place look a lot better AHAHA! So I took a few photos while coming home from the dentist and I wasn't exactly thrilled with how they looked, but once I set it to black and white, I finally saw the beauty in it :)

I've got a lovely bunch of... Fruits and Veggies!

I was so excited when I discovered our Farmer's Market! We are a very small town and there's one guy who sells fresh fruits and veggies along with various other things. I was surprised when I saw he had Chai Tea, Flax seed, jellies, honey, even whole wheat flour! I almost grabbed another box of Chai Tea, but then realized I had like two other kinds of it at home! HAHA! Chai is my comfort tea :)  It was pouring rain and windy and I covered my camera as well as I could, wondering if i should have even brought it, but then I got there and saw all the beautiful colors! I was so excited that I just started snapping away and I grabbed some avocado before I left :)

Road trip on the Interstate 5

I found these photos I took during the visit to see my Grandpa a few weeks ago. My mom and I had to go down to Southern California to take care of him for about a week and on a 14 hour drive, you tend to get bored of mix CDs and audio books. I got my camera (Frank) out and thought I'd just take a few shot, I didn't think any of them would be very good, but I underestimated my amazing camera! HAHA! I was so happy when I was going through my pictures I decided to share a few of them! After a few adjustments I think they turned out to be very fun shots.

I want to live in a bookstore

"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it." 
-Marie de Sevigne


Books, take me away in a world of whatever I want. When I'm in my room reading I find myself in a world of wizards and lost in Shakespeare's words, there are so many places I can go and it helps my imagination to never leave me :) I didn't get into reading until I was out of high school, I really had a hard time sitting in one place, HAHA! I remember the first book I read all the way through was, The Princess Bride. That book, is still to this day one of the best I've ever read! It's a large book and I was surprised on how much of it wasn't dull, but from the first to the last page it was completely addicting! I'm currently reading the second Harry Potter book, and completely just wrapped up in it. I've absolutely fallen in love with these kids :) It was another rather cold day here so the theme today is books! Enjoy :)