rocky crag

I guess this post title is a bit redundant, since the definition of crag is a rugged rock or cliff, and all cliffs are probably made of rock. So hence, redundancy. Don't you just love dictionaries?

Do you have any goals for the new month? My goal for April is to get out of the photo slump that I've been in the last few months and start taking more photographs. I have been admiring a whole lot of photos lately, you can catch a brief glimpse of them on my Pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/aucilater/photography/

I just love looking at beautiful images. One of my favorite photographers is Alfred Eisenstaedt. He captured so many beautiful, yet candid shots. Check out his work if you haven't already. You'll thank me later. But I'm sure you've already seen some of his work.

Anyhow, today's pic of the day.

ampersand

i don't know if anyone else is weird like me, but if you have a favorite word (or words), congratulations, you are! what you win i don't know. 

today's word in my head is ampersand. I love this word. if i could reasonably use it in a sentence i would use it quite frequently. i even love it's symbol "&". This spring I learned how to draw them (I was quite proud of myself, don't make fun of me and my dysfunctional hands that couldn't figure out how to draw them before), when i addressed my friends' wedding invitations. since then i've enjoyed being pretty fancy in addressing envelopes. just ask my friend sarah, if you know her. 

what's your favorite word, or words? 

day 99: my sick sense of humor

july 22.

a double date! i don't know if that connection is something my achingly tired brain concocted, or something that anyone else will get. probably not. okay, i'm going to stop talking gibberish, but isn't that why you've visited this blog in the first place??

yes. this next photo is an example of my demented mind of humorousness. i really didn't think that humorousness was a word and i just typed it anyways, and was pleasantly surprised when i didn't get that ugly red squiggly line underneath it, like i do with most words i make up and the lowercase obsession i have. anywho (<---red squiggly line. grrr...) here is the photo of the day, that you've suffered through reading this post to see..

Goodnight, Moon

I know the moon wasn't at it's full stage last night, but still, last night, when I went out to roll the windows up on my little matchbox of a car, I had to run back in to grab the Rebel. I was awed in it's lunar beauty as I sat, cross-legged, on the brick walkway, trying to balance my camera so steady for a clear shot. It took a few, because, if you've ever tried to take a picture at night without the flash, it's SUPER hard to get a non-shakified shot (yes, I just made that word up. I don't care if I have that squiggly red line below it, screaming improper spelling. I happen to like my new word). 

Anywho, if you didn't get a chance to see it last night (it's not quite at full moon stage, last night it was only about 86% full. Pretty close, though), here you are. And if you did get to see it, too bad. Enjoy it with the rest of us anyways. After all, if we didn't have the moon, we wouldn't be around, moseying in our little lives. 

On that super negative note, have a great day (even though it sounds negative, don't worry, if you have to be around this girl today, I happen to be in a good, if slightly volatile, mood)!

Correct Me If I'm Wrong..

So I was going through some pictures today to put on Etsy (that's right, I sell on Etsy. So sue me. Ok, please don't. Because the whole reason I sell there, and I haven't ever actually sold anything, is to break some extra cash for my upcoming trip to Ireland!), and I decided that I've never put this picture up on the blog. And I really like it. So, I asked myself, why haven't I put it up? And I couldn't actually come up with a logical answer. So today I'm going to put it up here (I've used the word "so" a lot in this post. Please don't hold it against me. I couldn't think of a better word today). I also was reading in a book yesterday about footnotes, and how useful they are. I guess I apply the same advice to my parentheses, which I had to look up the word for, because I am having one of those "mental block" days, and couldn't think of the name for them. There's a great chart on this website if you're ever having a similar mental block, like I just did: http://visual.merriam-webster.com/communications/communications/punctuation-marks.php.

Anyhow. Here is today's picture. I'm going to try to post more often, because I used to post every day, and right under my blog title, it says, "a photo a day keeps the boredom away," and I haven't actually lived up to that, since I posted exactly eight, fifteen, and ten posts in February, January, and December (in that order, and I just used the parentheses because I could, and wanted another excuse for them).

So here's number nine:

And, since it's Leap Day, I'm posting this little fellow:

smile! =my definition.

So yesterday I was munching on some good ole' (they weren't actually old, FYI) m&ms  and I was thinking, hey, it would be cool to draw a sun with a yellow one in the middle and photo shoot it for my next blog post! So....that's what I did. and then, writing this post, I decided to do a little research on yellow, the color that makes me instantly happy. Wikipedia's article on it, to my utter dismay, (!) basically DOWNED the color. Instead of saying, "Yellow is the color that makes Audrey instantly happy and bubbly," it said, " yellow has traditionally been associated with jaundice and cowardice." That would definitely not be my definition, but then again, I haven't written a dictionary. Just read a lot of it and come up with my own definitions for things over the years, as this blog post can definitely attest to. Wow, I just used the word "definitely" a lot more than I was expecting to. Anyways, I hope you all have a Audrey definition of the word "yellow" day...as in, I hope you have an instantly bright, optimistic, and incredibly happy day. 

In Retrospect...

I think a lot. Sometimes (I think), I think too much. Whether it's about what to do tomorrow, what I should have done yesterday, or what I might have done in the past, it's there in this girl's brain. If you can think it, it's probably swimming around in my brain. Most of what I think of comes in snapshots, either of the past or some future picture that I want to capture with the Rebel. So today, here are some retrospects:

i always think about taking pictures of trees from the bottom..they all seem to tell a different story

i took this one in the French countryside

there's something about footprints that reminds me of leaving the past..