Today Five

Non tard?

Today Four

Thunder hole

Today Three

Rain slicked precipice of doom

Today Two

On the right

Today One

Ashes on Sand Beach

Shot of Tranquility

There's one movie that I can watch over and over and over that will provide me with a sense of calm. The entire movie is set up in such a way that when I'm finished I feel more relaxed than I was going in. Lost In Translation is a wonderfully put together movie. Even years later I can't get enough. So many elements come together in this movie. It makes me want to escape my life and live in the land of Wind and Ghosts. It features the standout performance of Bill Murray's career, a for which role he DEFINITELY should have recieved the Oscar. Scarlett Johansson is great in this movie, and not just because of this:

The movie has such a great atmosphere and is full of beautiful imagery. Scenes that will always stick in my memory are littered throughout the movie.


It's definitely the most worn out DVD in my collection.
Hell, I just finished watching it before writing this post and I'm in such a good mood. I was prompted to watch this movie by the pleasant weather. So basically I'm totally chill right now.

Goodbyes

A sunset from our walk earlier. We only walked down the street but it was dark by the time we got back.

Wind Menace

Mighty wind. Destroyer of all.

Lazy Monday 6

Another garden shot. Pwetty, eh?

Lazy Monday 5

In the bog looking back at the treeline.

Lazy Monday 4

Bog Boardwalk in Orono. It was buggy. Still pleasant.

Lazy Monday 3

The canopy of this row of trees is quite magical in summer. Not yet.

Lazy Monday 2

Ashes being the photography queen.

Lazy Monday 1

The garden is beginning to bloom. This means much happy.

Regrets, Remediation, and Cream Soda

I'm very happy that I was able to travel overseas last year. It's seven months on and I don't think I've lost any of my excitement that the trip built up. Now I actually find bits of nostalgia and longing for that foreign yet familiar land popping into my head. I rather wish it was sensible to go back. Or cheap. I'd live over there, in England, if I could. I believe living abroad would be the greatest adventure of a lifetime. Especially in a place where other cultures are simply a train ride away. You don't see things like that in the "good ol'" USA. I know in my heart that I'll live abroad at some point in my life. I don't know when, and I think it might just be at a completely random time. I'll just go insane from the doldrum one day and fly to an unknown destination to settle in.

Part of me has a sinister urge to just throw caution to the wind and embark on a round-the-world journey. Yet I'm in control enough to know that such an endeavour is ridiculous and impossible. I don't have nearly enough money to do something so grand. I'm not worldly enough to be able to make an adventure like that work, either.

I'm not committed enough to blogging to make it worthwhile either. I'm all about the experience, personally, but for the sake of everyone else I'd need to blog. I'm not very good at archiving the events of my own life, sadly. Blogs, pictures, videos, and serialized adventures are usually absent from the accounts of my life. Even in London I was unable to fully catalogue the week in any memorable way. The Ashes created our London scrapbook and took hundreds of pictures. I took maybe 200 pictures and three videos. Yes, three whole videos. In hindsight I should've bought a new memory card and probably a video camera. I should've bought a video camera for the trip and then returned it.

Still, though, this type of documentation of the trip comes with another problem. If your spending your whole trip documenting it taking pictures and videos and whatnot, does it take away from the ability to simply enjoy where you are? I think that's why I only took pictures on two days. I wanted to enjoy being there. I wanted the memories of being in these places, not the pictures of them. Pictures and videos will never capture the whole scene, they'll never look the same as your mind remembers. What good is a picture or video without the smells and ambient sounds? You come back without a lot to show, but you've enjoyed it all the more. Right? I can't say. Next time I go anywhere I'm taking a video camera. I'll leave still pictures to The Ashes because she's a bang-up photographer. Take some videos, splice it together, overlay some pretty music, everbody oohs and aaahs.

It's just a matter of finding some place to go on the next trip. Iceland? That's pretty close. Ireland? Cheap flights. Argentina? Some beautiful country down that way. Peru? I hear Patagonia is amazing. Asia? Ideal, but expensive. Life will take me where it takes me. I'll get a whim, I'll go.

Trail of Poops

I made quite the mess at the apt. Yea, thats cat litter. The bag caught a nail.

Uninspired Photo Happy.

Its not much but its improving my spirits.