Archive for July, 2009
Footprints In The Sand - June 2004
I remember this trip well. I booked a trip for my mom and me a few months prior. I had some extra money and this was back in my days sans kids. I thought it’d be nice for Mom to get away. So I booked 2 tickets to Cancun for us on one of those “package deals”. It was about $2500 for flight, room and board for the week. We went, had a good time and actually ended up buying a timeshare at the Royal Sands. We like it, and thought we’d use it more, but isn’t that how the story goes with most timeshares? Maybe when the kids get a little older they’ll appreciate it.
This was also the trip I where I broke the news to her that she’d be a gramma in 6 months. We hadn’t planned on Lilla by any stretch, but here she was coming one way or the other. I think on that stance alone this photo carries some sentimental merit. I can’t pick out the perfect verse to go with it, but I gotta think it’s in there somewhere.
A Few Flecks Of Frost
Again in the “back 40″ behind my house. Had a Halloween bug maybe since this was in October, but it really does make for some good shots when the leaves are changing color.
Barbed Wire Bothell
We’ve got a lot of wild blackberry bushes out behind our house - I took this shot I’d say in maybe October 2008 behind my house. Makes for some good dramatics certainly…
Byron Bay, Australia - Lighthouse
I remember this little town south of Brisbane, Australia as a surfers town. There were a lot of local shops that were open air and a lot of the locals had on typical surfer attire; many would be shoeless and/or shirtless. The weather wasn’t “hot” by any means, but temperate. The lighthouse, they say. is the Easternmost point in all of Australia as it juts out the seaboard.
We spent a good part of the day there but it was just a “drive through” stop on our trip south to Sydney from Brisbane in 2007. We’d have liked to stay a little longer, but the agenda wasn’t plotted out for it. Another memory I have of it is the kebabs they had at one of the open air stores. They were in a pita setup and were surprisingly delicious. I think this was the place. Comes highly recommended.
The flip side of the lighthouse looking down to one of the surfer beaches I had previously posted HERE, and will have to dig to find the shots I snapped there.