Fairy Dust

the plunge

the plunge, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

Summer TIme

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! The sailing instructor job at TYC this summer. I spend the day hanging out with kids and teaching them how to sail. I swim and play and laugh and hang out in the sunshine. I like my coworkers and I am even getting the hang of how to work with the sobbing terrified eight year olds. What I can't figure out however, is how exactly the summer is passing so quickly, and how much I feel like I haven't seen ANYONE since I've been home. I have so little time after work and everyone is running around all over the place. YAY growing up I guess.

P.S. I happened to bring my camera on the ONLY day it has not been brilliantly sunny all summer. I'm so tan, at least for my red-headed alergic to the sun self.....hahaha so I guess I'm not that tan :)

I don't think....

That absence makes the heart grow fonder, I think it just breaks it a little at a time.

Midtermspapersprojectsfinals

I hate this part of the quarter. All I want to do is play and I have major projects and tests every few days for the rest of the year. YAY college. Sometimes I really to wonder what the point of this is exactly.

Home for Mother's Day

Friday afternoon it was time to go home, Brian, Shawn, Tim and I piled in the car and unfortunately did not get out of it for 3 1/2 hours. Meaning I was very sick of being in the car that long and very irritated about the extra one and a half hours spent sitting on the highway. Just too much death metal I guess. Then it was home with mom for the evening and some tv and talking, which was nice. Then Sat. off to Zach's lacrosse game where grandparents, cousins, aunts, and one uncle were assembled to watch Zack kick some but. Unavoidably though, once the babies got there the game got a lot less attention from the family. They are getting Ginormous.

After the game off to Kai's for lunch at Hanz Burger and old fashioned hang out time. I love just doing nothing, wandering around, going to the park, anything with that kid is fun. We took it easy this weekend though, he still has that cold I gave him 2 weeks ago. After going to his brother's to pick up a present for his mom, visiting the fred meyer for expensive Mother's Day Cards, and stopping by the fire station to see his mom it was off to Milton. What is in Milton you ask? Well Lexi and Shay of course. It was great to see them and I can't wait to see everyone this summer, but stuff has changed. I just feel like I knew people so well and that we will always share love for each other, but I honestly don't know what goes on in day to day life with them. Ah well that's what cell phones are for.

Then it was back to Kai's where I fell asleep and elected not to go home. I proceeded to wake up at 6:30 stop to pick up some flowers for mom and drove home. Then the waffle debacle occurred. I'm seriously sticking to pancakes from now on. Then it was discussion about housing for next year, seriously like all day.

Anyways weekends are home are freaking stressful.

Today, and this is the really exciting news, Shelby, Hallie, Jaime and I went to look at 2515 Peabody St. as a rental next year. The house is so nice. It's kind of far from campus, but the low rent and awesomeness of it make it the ideal place. We filled out our applications and I'm going back to pay the fee tomorrow.

Stormy Garden

Did some editing here, let me know if you think it works.

As a tribute to my wonderful boy who put up with flowers all day

Now doesn't he look like a goofball. So yeah I finally dusted off my camera. It was sunny and there was prettyness and it was time. I think I want to work on my editing ability because well, I'm not so good in the digital darkroom. Anyways the weekend was great and things have been going pretty well. This quarter is flying past and I am excited for next year. Jamie, Shelby, Hallie and I have been scouring bellingham for a place to live....EEEK! Hopefully we figure that out soon. I am going home for the summer and working at the fuel dock (thanks to shay) and possibly as a sailing instructor (thanks to andrew). It's been sunny here for almost two weeks, its absolutely breathtaking and it makes me not want to leave. Just when I am getting used to life here its going to turn on it's head. It took adjusting and a lot of missing above boy but I really do love it hear. The bay reaches out underneath my window and the sunset is amazing almost every night. I live 10 feet from my friends and I don't know I guess I finally am content. It's a good feeling. Going home will be different, my life is so different, and I think I'm a little different, but it will be good to see everyone for one last summer.

Flowers and Friends

Editing Practice

I decided to try some editing ish on this one. I really like how it worked

Finals

YAY finals.  Just three more days and I'll be home.  More pics after spring break and the reinstatement of my laptop.

More from Lakewood

Still Waters

We were supposed to have a regatta today, but what we got was fog, and maybe about 2 hours of shifty crummy wind. Something about the stillness works so much better in black and white.

Where have the sunny days gone?

This was about a week ago, it was magnificent. I miss the SUNSHINE! Ah well I guess the dreariness has its' own sort of charm.

Jaime

Blue Day

Forgotten Window

Forgotten Window, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

The Garden Trap

DSC_0151, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

DSC_0206

DSC_0206, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

Majic Path

DSC_0207, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

College

I wish someone would have told me how hard it is to grow up.

It is amazing to me how much pain the time between two happy lifestyles can cause. After high school my friends and I set off with dreams and plans, some are still on the paths they set out on; others have a new plan for their lives, and others are just lost. One thing is certain though, they’re all in pain. I don’t understand how finally having the opportunity to set out on your own and make your own decisions, finally having the ability to truly live and fly from the nest and all of that can make everyone so sad. Walking through a college campus there are friends and classmates and opportunities and beauty and growth but more-so there is an overarching sense of loneliness, indecision, and confusion in every individual. Why are we even at college? What is the point? Who do we want to be? Where do we want to go? And most of all, Does anyone care?

I know that this will be one of the greatest journeys of my life and I guess when I feel so alone it helps to think that I am alone with thousands of other of age children, trying to learn to grow up.

Morning fog on campus

Morning fog on campus, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

The sunlight finally breaking through the fog was stunning. Campus had been shrowded in a cloud for almost a week, and the sun made quite an entrance.

Bellingham Bay

Bellingham Bay, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

The blue of the bay is incredible. It makes the mornings so much more enjoyable to look out the window to sunshine and happiness.

Lakewood Dock

dock2

dock2, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

Crew Dock

boats1

boats1, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

What happens when there is fog and no wind and I take my camera to practice

Alphas

boats2, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

Boats that won't set sail today sit by the lake and wait to play

Pictures

YAY...I'm going to start shooting again, and I finally figured out how this thing works.

the lookout

the lookout, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

suicide bluff

suicide bluff, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

Stuart Island, WA

lightkeepers house

lightkeepers house, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.

Stuart Island, WA

kai puts on a show

kai puts on a show, originally uploaded by rainmaker656.