Miscellaneous Goodies

Some rando pictures from around the house/Mark's house when I was home the other weekend....nothing special, just a few glimpses... 

(ew below)

The Big E 2009

Yellowstone Left Overs

nessie!! haha not my best picture, but it never fails to amuse me...

far away buffalo...

not so far away buffalo...there were bison all over the place in yellowstone, it was crazy...they'd walk along in the roads and right next to cars, as you can see (this isn't zoomed at all)

The usual macro flower shots....but look I learned how to add a border and text to an image in photoshop!! (baby steps people)

the colors look better when you click to get the enlarged versions (as always)

(iiiiicccck)

Hiking by the Grand Tetons:

The Grand Teton Mountains at sunrise:

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Just did a project on Pistoletto and was reminded of how much I loved this piece of his at the MoMA.

Ironically the project was on how much I disliked some other work by him...but, despite that, some of his work is still very interesting, his mirror figure drawings included.

(that's me in the reflection taking the picture lol)

busy!

My lack of updating is pathetic...sooo busy with the start of school and job searching...will get around to putting more pictures up here soon...

The Wasteland

Vast barren, dusty, sulfurous wastelands?? I think this calls for some Eliot....my English professors would be so proud...

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow

Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,

You cannot say, or guess, for you know only

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,

And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,

And the dry stone no sound of water. Only

There is shadow under this red rock,

(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),

And I will show you something different from either

Your shadow at morning striding behind you

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

(from The Burial of the Dead...the first section of The Wasteland......I love those last few lines)

Alright, enough of that lol.....obviously not all of Yellowstone is a wasteland (quite the contrary) but sections of it definitely earned the title...this little guy below looks like a face

hahaha this illustration on the sign is hilarious. it's for warning people not to wander away from the trails in the thermal areas because the ground is just a thin crust and you might break through into scalding hot water...the lady is freaking out (yet making no signs of assisting the boy) and the guy in the background isn't even pretending to care haha

definitely not like a wasteland....all the colorful bacteria in the super hot thermal pools....i think this is the morning glory one

hiking on a rainy day!

Yellowstone

A little handful of pictures from my trip to Yellowstone that I just got back from a couple days ago. This is just sort of a random selection...

I have a thing for intentionally out of focus images, don't ask me to explain it, I just like the colors....