View of the John Hancock building.

View from the dock near my cabin on Squam Lake in New Hampshire.

One of the most AHA moments I had while I was at SQUAM was when we had the chance to eat our box lunch anywhere we wanted. Though I wanted to connect with more people and hang out, I felt a pull to just go and sit by the water alone. I sat on the dock, with my feet in the water and the dock rocked slightly as the boats wake would create slight waves. I felt alive and ready to take on the world. I knew at that moment that there was a lot of shifting going on in my universe. I have yet to realize all these shifts, but the person who left for New Hampshire and the one that came back seem so different in spirit. And then right after that these few people showed up on the other dock, and were doing cannonballs and just taking delight in swimming in the lake. It was so much fun to see them giggling, laughing, screaming (cuz it was a little cold) like children playing. I promise next year I too will partake in the joy of jumping into the lake…CANNONBALL!

from my recent trip to Door County…This taken in Fish Creek, WI.

This photo made me think of this excerpt from the book “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles.

“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”

View from the ground of the Vulcan Statue, Birmingham, Alabama

Pathway, Chicago Botanic Gardens

Straight Down — View from the top of Vulcan Statue, Birmingham, Alabama

Photo taken at Lake Louise Campground, Byron, Illinois.

View of my studio, from a few months ago. It is a bit more messy now.

Before I forget… Happy Independence Day! Hope everyone has fun some with fireworks, food, and friends! All in honor of the fourth!

Photo taken mid-flight on my way back to Chicago.

This is the very first photo I ever got to take from an airplane. For some reason I was either flying at night, or just too tired to take a photo before this one.  Either way here it is.