nautical adventures

photo browsing on the web today!...some of my favorites:

i love those optical illusions things....where there is more than one image to be seen in a picture, and it blows your mind when you recognize the less conventional image.

comb? or house in the forest?

i love it :)

this one is awesome for two reasons: one) random assortments of pretty lights make me happy. perhaps a simple pleasure, but i'm not ashamed. two) this is like....lights in socks suspended from the ceiling. one day i will illuminate a room as such.

i have a thing for ferris wheels. i went on one once when i was six or so....and i loved it (while simultaneously was terrified). ever since, i've had a particular fascination with ferris wheels, despite having not ridden one in over ten years. again with the lights thing, perhaps, they're beautiful :)

this one i promptly bluetoothed from my laptop to my cell and made it the wallpaper on my cell. i'm totally into altered books and have been meaning to start work on a non-religious one (i completed a religious one last year using only photography), but through many mediums...sketches, paints, photography, mosaics? collages? possibilities are endless and i hope to pursue such a creation within the following year...regardless, i love the blankness of the pages except for the sketch of the bird....truly beautiful, truly brilliant

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also, found a picture online last night of a river/reflection scenery landscape deal....K groans whenever i show her pics like that, but i made this one the wallpaper on my laptop...i think because it reminds me of oak ridge, which, despite the grodyness of the "nuclear water" was one of the most beautiful rivers i've ever raced on

speaking of beautiful waters...

the beach today was awesome.

i'm usually not one to enjoy the beach all that much, but i'd vowed to try to embrace it this year, and so far i am loving it!

my grandfather fell last night and due to the blood thinners he's on to prevent artery cloggings, his scabs bled incessantly all night and through the morning, so this afternoon my grandmother and uncle took him to the nearest medical center while mom, dad, K, L, and i went to the beach. mom went on a walk as soon as we got down there, and dad, K, L, and i went in the ocean. after quelling my recently arisen fears of sharks after a week of shark week (oh, but i do so love shark week), i found myself very relaxed, and i floated on my back while listening to K and dad negotiate K's allowance in a particularly amusing manner (K was very detailed, negotiating interest and emergency situations all in terms of her monthly allowance, meanwhile, dad didn't take anything seriously), and later tried to pitch L into oncoming waves, but failed on most attempts (we had fun anyway).

at dinner, pop showed off his see-through medicated state-of-the-art (??) bandage on his arm, through which i grimaced at his bloody scabs, and we all counted how many countries we'd all been to (pop won with 36, dad came in second at 27, uncle M at 18, mom at 12, K and i at 4 , and L at 2 )

i did the dishes while everyone else took a walk along the main street, and then while everyone went to sleep, dad, K, nana (for the first half), and i watched 'when a stranger calls' in the living room

day one of my beach trip has been fairly fantastic (despite the inevitable run-in with my mother...), but to be honest, i can't help but count down the days until clemson!

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