Ok so its kind of cheesy...

But its so damn cute! I just had to post this cat picture even though I normally hate them. I think this picture portrays perfectly the character of our family cat, Kitty, who is a somewhat curmudgeonly old and half-blind cat that wandered out of the woods one day. What a bad-ass.

Dead Season

I used to call this time of year dead season, for obvious reasons. One time I told an old radical guy I know that it was my least favorite time of year, and he made me go on a hike with him. We went out to an old abandoned marsh, where told me to look for color. At first I didn't see what he was talking about, it was just a bunch of dead grass and stuff, but then I looked deeper. I began to notice greens and yellows, rust, and soft tans, even purple, and dusky blue's. It's a lesson I'll never forget; even in the deadest of seasons, colors abound.

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So I've been sick as a dog lately. I haven't gotten out of the dorm much, and I haven't had a chance to take many pictures but here's one I took because I was out buying cough drops. I was going for the ultra-dramatic look, which I think I achieved. In actuality it was kind of a drab day, making it even more enjoyable that the picture came out looking like a haunted castle or something. Sometimes the joy of a picture is not just in capturing the image as seen by the eye, but also as seen by the mind.

The world hasn't been particularly conducive to my sanity. At times like this, what keeps me going are the snap shots of perfect clarity, the images that just make sense. Is it bad that all I can hang on to right now are images? As yesterday fades away and tomorrow tapers off, here I am, trying to capture the past. Good thing that wall was there to help.

I have become completely converted to the church of my new camera (the Rebel XT). I worship its deep focus and high quality image, not to mention greater control over image and focus. I know it's not even the best digital camera out there, so right now it feels like the ceiling for digital image quality is unspeakably high. I'm entering a brave new world, folks.