cassiopeia

Tonight I had to go back to work and finish some stuff and on my way home I noticed how beautiful the night sky was. So I decided to go snap some shots...


Cassiopeia


Same photo - just added some lines in case you can't make it out or don't know what cassiopeia looks like...

Cassiopeia is in the northern hemisphere - meaning the majority of my readers can see it any night they want to look up and find it... the constellation is meant to represent a Greek queen - Cassiopeia. Now many people know it as the "W" in the sky. I want to plant a seed with you tonight. I want to suggest that we see it as a "W" because we look for the easy things in life - we look for simple explanations for things in our lives... I want to suggest that we look for more in the skies and in our lives... the next time you look at the sky and see Cassiopeia I want you to take a deep breath and think about all the positive things you bring to the people around you - I want to suggest that from now on we should refer to it as a crown... because we are looking for more and that each of the five points on the crown are five reasons why we are fabulous. We all have great and amazing things to offer others and we deserve to wear crowns and be treated well in our lives (male and female).


Ok - and one more fabulous photo of the moon - Waxing Gibbous - 89% full

Good night my friends, my family - love you!

Ok and one more thing... this month I blogged more than any other month before... I can't believe it - there are more posts then days in August... crazy... thank you for continuing to read...

how I celebrated my aunti's birthday

First - Happy Birthday Aunti Jenni!

It was birthday weekend around here... Friday was my Dad's birthday, yesterday was a friend of the families birthday (1 year old) and then today... my fabulous aunti! I wish I had been there to celebrate with some red-neck margaritas...
So today we went to my parents to celebrate dad's birthday... had a yummy lunch and then spent some time outside and had a great day.


The only sunflower that came up in my garden... beautiful! I love sunflowers!


My new favorite photo of Michael - on this visit to Grandma and Grandpa's house he figured out how to climb up the slide that has a swinging ladder... something that Kyle hasn't even figured out... he was about a pleased with himself as he could possibly get...


Here is Kyle showing off his true Steve Irwin skills.. I kid you not, that he comes up to me as we are hiking to the berry location and says "Mom, look at this, isn't it cool." To which I said, "um... that's deer poo" I had a great laugh... and then I made him stand beside the pile to get his photo taken with it... he initially freaked a bit that that was what he was in possession of and then I said, well Steve did that.. and then it was like.. um yeah, you can take my picture with it...


Michael enjoying the huckleberries we found in the forest... one of many that he enjoyed...


Here is my Dad and Kyle picking berries... my Dad couldn't get enough... we finished picking and he was off trying to find another location to go and pick... even though we'd run out of things to fill up...


Here are the biggest berries that I picked today... I know for blueberries this isn't that big - especially the blueberries from the store, but for huckleberries this is pretty good size...


Huckleberry bush... still full with berries... something my dad picked on his last round through the bush... a little token of our trip...


Here are the huckleberries getting transformed into yummy jam...


Here are some of the 27 jars that I was able to get finished.. they are just the single use jars (24) and then a few bigger ones...


This isn't photoshopped or fixed... I was getting ready to leave our berry location - waiting for my dad to come back from his walkabout... and I'm looking at the ground and see this... I'm calling it 'how I found love in nature' - I left it out there... hoping that someone else will also find this and think about a great love in their life - love really is all around


Help me.... help me... don't worry we caught a load of stuff today - two dragon flies - a bunch of grasshoppers and some ants... all of them were returned to where they came from... Kyle just wanted to get a closer look at each one... I loved catching them - I felt so stealth catching dragon flies.. it was like - in your face fast bugs... I caught you... (insert semi-evil laugh)


Well I couldn't help but share this... that's right... this is a photo of dragonflies getting it on! Woohoo! You wouldn't even believe the noise... I mean really... get a room :)


And well I couldn't go without taking one stupid photo of myself...

Well my loves - good night - best wishes on the week ahead - may your week be full of joy!

ah

So I just had one of those terrible nightmares... and it made me wake right up and got me out of bed... it was both scary and shocking.... I think everyone in my family (immediate and distant) was in it and it kept including a set of stairs that I was having a hard time in my dreams descending... I must have gone down them three or four times in the dream - they were open and there was a big hole to the right of the stairs and if you took a bad step you could fall... I was being told to get going and just hold someone's hand to go down the stairs when someone fell to the bottom... suddenly I could sprint down the stairs only to get to the bottom and the person that fell had jumped up and was yelling at me... it was crazy... but I'm feeling like I can get back to sleep, but I also still see the dream in my head when I close my eyes... blah... stupid nightmares... alright - trying to go back to sleep....

the nympho is the state bird of ohio

Yes... that's right - it is 50 First Dates night..

sun and other stuff

Before I get into writing anything tonight I thought I would share this photo of the sun. Tonight Quesnel had a great smoke cloud come through and it darkened the sky and made the sun look pink.



What's new... well I had another fabulous experience that strengthened the fact that I just don't want to get old. My dear grandmother had an accident last night and I ended up being the first one to go help out. I won't go into all the details but it wasn't pretty. She is totally fine - well a little worse for wear as she's got a nasty bruise on her knee - but good and home. She was home in three hours after visiting the hospital. So that was last night - good times :) K- I'm beat... need sleep...

Love to all - smooches.

exxxxcellent....

Well friends today I had an experience that tops my "special" performance for many years.



Now you'll see three arrows pointing to what are pretty deep lines on my face. No, I didn't fall down - that would have been better, no, they are not wrinkles... The lines on my face are more than an hour old... so I had an appointment this afternoon with a "specialist" and apparently I just went to sleep - and went to sleep hard - my face was pressed against a zipper line - my eye was actually where the zipper opener was - so when I finally woke up I could hardly open my eye.

What is really funny is that I woke up laughing and just thought it was pretty funny that I'd crash like that. I mean I was in a tired state, but I've never done that before. My "specialist" just laughed too - she said it was pretty funny that I crashed out like that. And there you have it, another adventure in the life of April :)

good luck

First, a good luck note to my dear friend Carmen. Good luck on your adventure tomorrow! I wish you all the best for the surgery and hope for a speedy recovery.

I burned off some negative energy tonight on the treadmill... I could have probably stayed on for another hour but know that if I spend more than an hour on the machine I get too jazzed up and can't get myself to sleep - even now with such a late start I'm wondering if I'll be sleeping anytime soon.

I was hoping to share something enlightening with you tonight... but alas today had few enlightening moments... ok - I will at least give you a quote... "Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions." Tony Robbins (um.. I've listened to Tony Robbins 'Awaken the giant within' three times now - definitely good for a long drive...

What did happen today? I got a smoothie that on the first taste made me think of throw up... and for some reason I went back for the second slurp and decided my first taste had been incorrect - but not far off... boo... today was mostly a liquid day because my jaw is terrible... my TMJ or whatever the heck is wrong with me is flared up and causing me grief... I had a few hours break from it late this afternoon and then I also had a break while I was working out and now it is trying to decide if it is going to make a come back or not.

Reading.. well I started 'love the one you're with' by emily giffin - within a few pages she mentioned when harry met sally and that made me want to read on... I also started that egyptian novel and after a page, put it down - I hate having to sound out names and novels that have a vocabulary list in the back of the book - when I read I want enjoyment - I don't mind having to figure out some of the words, but gees... when the first page has a few and the book is more than 700 pages long.. sorry - I just can't be bothered.. maybe one day... but not right now. I'll let you know how the other novel works out.

big hugs :)

as promised.. the canning photos

So these are the bread and butter pickles that I made... these do not require canning - processed just like jam...


So here is the great big giant pot that I use to can in...


Here is the nasty steam that burned my flippin' hand... for which I will curse about for a while to come... I know, I know - it is my fault... so I curse myself...


And lastly the finished canned beets... hooray... I did it!

And will I do it again... well like everything else... I'm sure that it gets better with practice.. :)

canning and more

So the canning went ok - the cans (all four of them) are popping -which means I did my job :) Now I will have beets this winter to enjoy... mmmmm... beets. I got a nice little steam burn on my thumb as a result of my canning exercise today... live and learn, right... followed this up with making enchilladas... easy - came out of the Chatelaine magazine for this month... but of course I made numerous alterations... like - holy - do you really need four cups of cheese... and then gobs of sour cream... so we used light sour cream and didn't double coat everything, we used about 2.5 cups of cheese (still too much) - but I lived outside of my box and followed the instruction to put cumin in - I didn't use beef - went with chicken instead - 'cause that's what was out - and I think it turned out just fine... the guys, however, hated it - Kyle could hardly put a drop in his mouth and Michael actually put some in his mouth and gagged.. his face made me want to throw up as well... good times at our house...

wish me luck

Alright friends... so I'm canning for the first time... hot water variety... it is wear you (in basic terms) cut up all the stuff you want to keep for later (after first cooking it) putting it in a jar, putting a lid on the jar and then you place the jar in water - then you have to get all that boiling - so glass jars boiling along inside a big pot - and then after a set amount of time - you take them out of the water and hope it all went well and that you didn't just waste a lot of time... ok - that was the pessimist - hard to keep them away...

I'm canning beets because I love them and then I want to try antipasto... because I love that too! And hello - it is way cheaper to make it yourself then buy it in the store. Alright - so I'm going to go back and see if we are boiling and then I can start timing - photos later :)

Note to self - in the event that you try to can again - remember to have canning vice to get jars out.. using tongs and a cloth SUCKS! And now you have a nice burn on the thumb from your stupidness.... Now off to buy a couple of things for dinner and think about whether or not I really want to proceed with the antipasto...

i have a few apples

It is Friday -- so let me just first say - hip hip hooray... long week... and now for the weekend - we started the weekend with a boy battle in safeway - the guys decided to pick on each other while I picked out a few things for dinner... a few reminders later and it seemed cleared... then I try to pay and they have an all out battle... Michael ends up getting pushed to the floor - which was funny to him - until he noticed he was bleeding... flamin' fabulous! He was fine - I wasn't... we go home, eat dinner and then it was off to bed for the crazy pair... and then I thought of something...


First... I noticed the beautiful sun, shining - and I remembered that life is too short for anger and then I also remembered... that I needed help..


Friends.. this is what more than 3,000 apples looks like... and the boys - lucky them - helped me pick ALL of them up... my hands are pretty sore now... and I actually think I found some muscles in my quads and other areas that I didn't realize existed...


And here it is... all cleaned up - notice the light change... it was all pretty and sunny and now it is getting dark... it took us more than an hour and half to clean up - and how do I know it was more than 3000... well I was filling up a 10 gallon bucket and I counted how many I tossed in one of them...


And here are the guys after - of course as we were cleaning up - more were falling - so we saved the ones that just fell... they actually had a good time and I'm happy that a chore is complete


And here I am - goofin' around again... livin' it up...

Now I'm going to watch Kenny vs Spenny... sad... but still true... tonight's episode is who can make the best porno... AWESOME!

Wait... what was that... I think I hear some naked grapes call my name... mmmmmmm - an excellent way to cap off a week

Oh my god... poor Spenny.. good lord - that was nasty... and call me sick - but I totally laughed at it... for some reason with every sip of wine Kenny and Spenny gets funnier... lucky me there are two episodes on and the second one is who can catch the biggest fish...

um, I didn't make it to the tub

For some reason I didn't end up in the tub tonight and took myself down to the "office" to do a little work and scrapbook. Scrapbook is a word that hasn't entered my vocabulary in a while - so I decided to just work on one page and finish it tonight.

Ok but wait, before I share I thought I would give one photo from my "trip".

Now this looks like the sky.. yes - it definitely looks like the sky, but I want you to look really hard at it and see if you can't see something... I'll give you a second...

Ok - so you are right - it really is only the sky... this was me taking a photo of a bridge (um.... so maybe I was driving - I mean.. no I wasn't - at least I didn't try to look through the view finder while driving - this was just me snapping to the left while still looking at the road.... ok - I'm terrible - and I'm going to hell... but seriously - most of the people reading this are coming with me... you know who you are) There is a beautiful train bridge just outside of McLeese Lake that I couldn't pull over and take a photo of because some unpleasant stupid person was trying to see if the front of their vehicle would fit into the back of mine.

Ok and now for the scrapbooking...

I'm going to put this up in my office - and hopefully frame it with my medal - yes a real bronze medal... special point number three hundred and twenty one... and now twitchy eye is bugging me and I should really go and read something to put me to sleep... nighty night :)

another...

And another long day is under my belt - I took a nice drive to Williams Lake for meetings and then stopped at a rest area on the way back to take some pictures... they were all goofy... it was a nice break...

So it was an early start and then I had a meeting tonight that went until about 7:45... fun... all good though... right... (this is where you say yes...)

"life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, Its about learning how to dance in the rain." algie

Now I am going to go and write - time to release some angry vibes that are swirling - looking for a place to stay - they've been on my shoulders all day and I need to go and get them off... if it wasn't so flamin' hot tonight I'd probably have a bath to unwind - ah, to hell with it - I'm going to have a bath...

Alright - so did I do anything fun today - can't I share some fun story - something that will put a smile on your face... well while I was being my goofy self on the side of the road on the way back from Williams Lake I started taking photos of myself off the car... so I set up my timer and then snapped photos of me making funny faces - amidst a pretty background.. like I said - I was just having a few minutes of fun... well genius that I am I decided to sit on a road side barricade... I was trying not to look like too much of an ass while traffic went by so I was timing the photos... if I'd kept the photos you would have seen one where I slipped like a moron - lucky I didn't go ass over tea kettle down the mountain side... and a bunch of others that showed FAR to much cleavage for your eyes... I mean it wasn't porn... but good lord... so sadly I don't have anything to share.. and if I did - well I'd only be sharing those on my other website where people pay by the minute :)

with love - hugs - smooches

creepy sleep walker

And in walks our scary sleep walker... he appears to be completely awake and yet he is completely gone and in some other dimension. In tonight's episode our little sleep walker has decided to make three guest appearances in the living room to scare the crap out of me and make me want to lock my own bedroom door so he doesn't loom over me in the night - zombie style.

This evening he attempted to describe something and upon a request for him to repeat it he did several times, but I could not make heads or tails of it. On his next visit he told me that his brother was punching him (he is sound asleep), but was trying to run walk... gotta see it to understand it - it is crazy... and extra creepy.

Why does this bother me... because a little piece of me fears that I'm doing this same crazy shit at night, but no one is around to see it - I could totally be walking around outside at night, talking to trees, howling at the moon... I thought about taping myself because I know I was sleep walking for a while as I started waking up in different parts of the house and having no idea how I got there... but I was terrified to see myself like that... of course that was during significantly stressful times - when I sleep walk - right now is just code blue for stress - nowhere near code red...

aaaahhhhhhhh

Hooray - good and vented... aaahhhhhh

I went as hard as I could on a 9 km ride.. managed to finish in about 40 minutes... it was great because I only had time to think about riding and not crashing - which I damn near did about 10 minutes into the ride... much better... much much better...

What was that... queen of the negative... ok - one complaint... what the hell happened to summer... the sun was setting and it was getting dark out as I rolled back down the drive way... I mean - seriously... it was exactly 9pm when I walked into the house and it was dark - too dark for cycling in... I need to fall back in love with walking indoors - or finding some other sport to do in the house... hey - binder - how is the wii fit... are you still using yours... is it worth it?

Now if I only had someone to have a red neck margarita with I'd be set...

pardon

Tonight we went out to dinner. I've been pretty high on myself all day because I wore some new shoes... think first day of school and people keep asking where did I get them from - plus they were high and must have made me 5'9 - so I'm rocking it out and I've got my theme song going (I gotta a feeling - that tonight's gonna be a good night... that tonight's going to be a good good night... it's even my ringtone now.. sad, but true) And then we are at dinner and I guess I gained 20 years because the waitress says "ma'am" to me.. what... what was that... the combination of swear words rolled through my ears... they were on the tip of my lips... (lips not tongue.. it was that close to coming out) oh right - I'm with the kids and really most of that stuff usually just stays in my head and causes me to have twitchy body parts... and then it happens again and that's right friends... she says it again when I'm paying.... people I don't know what I am - but I am not a ma'am NOT NOT NOT! Today was hot and sexy day, not frickin' ma'am day! FREEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKIN' HELL!

Ahhhhh, now I am good and vented... off to work out to blow off a little more steam.

since I can't leave that ass photo up for long

A beautiful little flower that has taken months to get to this stage... I was looking for something short - low to the ground.. which is how this little beauty was labelled... it, in fact, is more than a foot tall... I mean -gardening people - get your shit together.. please - us stupid people who don't garden need your guidance... it was probably a trick the gardening centre played on me "Yeah, I'm looking for something short and beautiful... can you hook me up with something like that?"..Hey Bob let me take care of this one... "oh sure we can help you with that..." I detect a slight sneaker but think it is probably just a personality flaw and nothing about our conversation.. "Thanks for your help... ".... and months later I add asshole to my last sentence... I guess I should be thankful that he didn't give me a beanstalk... but really could that be that bad.. I could climb up to the clouds, see a giant, bounce on jello - seriously - how could that be bad...


The very cute boys... enjoying the summer... getting bigger all the time :)


Cute and cuter... I leave it up to you on how the dice falls on that... Kyle is starting to learn how to use my camera - and I couldn't be happier about that...

that kind of day

So what good is this internet thing if you can't have a little fun...


Can you spot me in the photo... that's right - three asses... and no this is not some tricked out photoshop-ed picture - them's are giant horses... they were like dinosaurs - it was awesome.. so I made my fabulous aunt take a photo of me with my friends :) Now looking at the photo again someone might think that I'm extra short.. in fact I am 5'8 (ish) so the asses behind me are easily at the 6 foot level... really... ok - so maybe this is only a big deal to me...


So then this weekend I was playing around in the garden with dad and he gives me this giant cabbage - bigger than my head size and he starts peeling all the outer leaves off and says, in an off hand way, gees these look like elephant ears... so then I made him take a photo of me because I'm "special"

available

One copy of the Time Travelers Wife... I will gladly hand this off to someone else for reading...
I will not share any of the details since a lot of people haven't read the book... I will say that I managed to cruise through this book rather easily - finishing the more than 500 page novel in record time for me... I believe I started reading Thursday night, read a bit on Friday night, read occasionally on Saturday, and polished the rest off tonight

This is the first fiction novel I've read in ages and now I want another... suggestions.. something romantic, or something like Bridget Jones... help :)

Ok - it is nearly 1am and, sadly, I must be in my office being productive in less than eight hours... night night my loves :)

star date 20090815

My retarded neighbours have decided to shout outside... asses.

Today was pretty uneventful... we did manage to get Kyle a fish - we had to let his new tank stabilize as the first round of fish didn't last long.. so we now have a beta - (fighting fish) a beautiful red one - Kyle has named it "Long Tail". Maybe today was too much though as he has gotten up and pulled his fantastic sleep walking.. I hate that - I hate sleep walking... because he is definitely in another place - he was actually singing a bit tonight... CREEPY!

Ok - stupid neighbours - I give you permission to go in your house and F-OFF!

We did go to Farmers Market this morning and I got some fancy beets... which I cooked and then wasn't hungry enough to eat.. but they will be great with salad tomorrow. I also got 10 lbs of pickles for bread and butter pickles... mmmm.... also picked up potatoes and beans.. woo hoo - we followed up our trip to the market with a visit to the bakery where the boys picked out a cookie and a custard filled long john - the long johns are an old fav for me but I can't eat them anymore as they make my stomach hurt... boooooo.... I did manage to eat some cookie though :)

gotta share this...

So while I was in Dawson Creek I uploaded some of my aunts photos.... she took the amazing one below - this was from a storm that blew through Dawson Creek in the middle of the night - WICKED!

a few more photos from last night

So these don't have amazing meteors passing through them, but I enjoy looking at them and thought I'd share... hoping to take some more photos tonight... charging my batteries right now :)

a like it, a lot

Well the meteor shower is going on right now... are you reading this and it is still dark out - go outside - take in a few minutes of it - you will probably see one...

I spent the last 90 minutes outside - enjoying the show - I must have seen about 50 meteors and heard about three (burning across the sky.. IT WAS AWESOME!) Now I'm still working on my night time camera shots... but here is one out of 200 that caught a little something tonight...

the sky

If you happened to be in a part of BC (or really anywhere in the northern hemisphere) and you have a clear view of the night sky - tonight, tomorrow and Thursday night are nights to look up. The best meteor shower happens over the next few days. Tomorrow is probably the best night for it - but it picks up steam tonight. (google Perseids for more info)

If there happens to be a break in the sky tonight I'm heading out on the deck to try and get some photos... but of course - there is a nasty storm that has rolled in here and I'd be surprised if it breaks between now and midnight (that's when I turn into a pumpkin... well on some nights).

And now for some more trip photos... we went to Edmonton and took in West Edmonton Mall - the guys went to the water park and we also went to the Royal Alberta Museum - which was great - the guys loved it.


Here are the boys at Alberta Government House - a beautiful building in front of the Royal Alberta Museum... the gardens are very nice that surround the building... Edmonton should consider how they can stretch that beauty across the entire city...


A goat in Jasper National Park


An Elk in Jasper National Park

rested

I went back to work today... only 325 emails - woo hoo... and then we had interviews and work, and more work... but hey.. that's how the bills are paid :) And now that that is out of the way I'm back here to share a few more photos from my trip to Dawson Creek... um... I've loaded one below that isn't for the squeamish... yes - it's a photo of my nasty blister... I'll make it the last one so you don't have to look at it... but I know you are going to look at it now anyway... (insert evil laugh...)


Here I am hoofing it at the summit... awesome views... not that I really took it all in... we had time to make up at this point... I believe it was right around this point that my aunt noted that we were about 20 minutes off of where we should be... and then we rocked it out down the other side... I get a rush just thinking about it - woo hoo... I even shouted hell ya (gretchin wilson style) a couple of times because I was so completely in it...


This is Bijoux Falls (Provincial Park) in the Pine Pass... lots of outhouses for those needing a break and of course these beautiful falls...


Beautiful Chetwynd BC... they have amazing chainsaw carvings all through town - I did a mini tour and got some great photos of about a dozen of the carvings.. they even have star wars ones... there is something for everyone


Two bucks... this is what should be on the toonie... (oh, I know... that was terrible... but come on.. did it put a smile on your face...)


Yep - here's my nasty blister - this was taken immediately after the 3km falls hike... tonight it is bright red, but healing...

a brief update

K - so we left the house at 6am ish - stopped for some timmies... then made our way to Tumbler Ridge... 90 minutes later we were at the start of the race... at 9am we started the half marathon and it was freakin' awesome! I mean there were terrible parts where I just wanted to throw up or crawl back down the mountain in defeat, but I knew it wasn't in me to fail today... we made it to the 13 km summit (2000 ft elevation gain) to some beautiful scenery and then started the trek down. BEAUTIFUL!


(Kicking ass and taking names... not only did I complete a half marathon - the scenery was amazing) This is about 800 ft up... maybe a bit more...

I jogged for about 5km of the race and we made up for time I'd used at the start dragging myself up the mountain... we ran through the finish at 3 hours 38 minutes and I couldn't be happier about it... it was the best experience! We got bronze medals for completing in under 5 hours and then because we just couldn't get enough we did an additional 3km hike to some waterfalls... more beauty - more wonder- more nature... FANTASTIC (said like the princess in the paper bag princess)


Here is the steepest incline on the entire race... I actually didn't mind this that much.. there was a full kilometre that was all up hill and not a little uphill like heart thumpin' uphill... that was the worst section for me... the incline in the photo was steep enough to require a little bit of hands on to get up to the top... over the last few steps.

I got a bit too much sun for me... but I'm managing... I have a extra nasty blister that exploded at about 13 km and then got worse on our last 3 km hike to waterfalls... and then, upon further inspection, I found another five or six little ones... but other than that I don't really have much to complain about... the weather was good (super windy at the top), the company was great and the scenery was... say it with me... FANTASTIC!

We saw three moose on the way out in the morning, and a bunch of deer - two mom's with twins.. amazing!

Now I've had a healthy dose of red neck margarita and I'm ready to sleep... long day! Long day ahead as I'll be driving back to Quesnel early...

t-minus 12 hours

Well in 12 hours time I should be in mile 2 of my race... lord... today I got a great tour of Dawson Creek and did a bunch of new stuff... first I'm in Dawson Creek for the first time and it is a beautiful place, second I went on a golf cart - I actually stood on the bumper while being shuttled into the Dawson Creek Fall Fair - it was awesome - I was such a rock star :) ... ok and then I watched a chuck wagon race for the first time and it was crazy...



Here I am at the Dawson Creek museum/art gallery - and man was it nice... and free.... anyone coming through here should definitely stop there... DEFINITELY!

Alright - so I'm supposed to be sleeping, but can't - but I'm going to lay down and try to get some shut eye... we leave at 5am for Tumbler Ridge... I'll have photos to share tomorrow night... and I'll be celebrating the completion of my first half marathon!

just me?

So as we drove through Jasper National Park I noticed this beautiful mountain... now what I see in this photo are two hands coming out of the earth... I don't know if you'll see that or not... but I just felt this weird connection with the mountain and took a few photos as we got closer to it...


two hands
reaching towards the sky
hoping to stretch their fingers to the heavens

(In case you can't see it....)