ice-tastic!

So in case anyone hasn't heard, there was a pretty good little ice storm that came through Northwest Arkansas and hit Fayetteville pretty bad. For a reference, today is the first time I've had power since Monday, and I am just one of 100,000 who lost power due to the storm. Also, the University of Arkansas has been closed for 4 days straight now which hasn't happened since 1917 or something. Needless to say it was on one side very beautiful, but on the other extremely damaging. Here are a few photos that don't even begin to explain or capture what everything looked like in actuality.




There were downed power lines everywhere. I feel fairly certain that every street in fayetteville had a power line or two on the ground.


Wilson Park.

Upon opening up my front door.

Suelo is a full time window watcher. He's also pretty cute. Am I turning into the cat lady? I think I have around 80% too many photos of my feline.

Messing with changing the focus.

What exactly is it about cats and boxes?

I got a new camera yesterday

So here are a few simple photos of things I took last night/yesterday afternoon. Also, I am usually a die hard Nikon person, but I mixed it up this time.
There is a super macro feature that allows me to be within one centimeter of stuff and it turns out clear. Pretty cool, eh? It's what really sold me, expect many bugs on plants post in the future!
Eye out window.
Dark rooms.
Stamps!

I thought the reflection my cats water bowl made was a little cool....

This is what I like out of my fog:

Density.But on a more murderous note, I ran into a stuffed bobcat with the later half of a squirrel protruding from it's mouth Christmas eve. Apparently the host was hunting one day, noticed a bobcat running by and then shot it with a bow. The bobcat was indeed in the middle of eating this squirrel just as pictured here. Hhhmmmm.....Also to note were the 3 deer heads mounted in the living room. Very nice folks though. Chevy people, they'll have nothing to do with Fords.

animals can be cute

Old garlic?

Day on the town

Bowling, Ice skating and 3 hours of Wii, all in all a very good day.I bowled a 120, wooo!
The place was pretty packed for noon on a tuesday. There were also around 20 shirts that said "Elkins class of 2013"....
Is it just me or does this photo make the place look like a midget bowling alley.

The view is nice

Which might be one of the reason's I'm always home so much.

day trip

On Wednesday my friend Brandon and I went for a day hike out in Newton county down Indian Creek. Our goal was to reach and see the "Eye of the Needle," which is pictured below. October is my favorite month which was proved reasonable by the beautiful scenery we came across as we trekked up and down boulders for 6 miles more or less.I'm really glad I decided to go ahead and put new batteries in my camera at this point of the hike or I would have missed this photo above.



Seeing as I was walking behind Brandon most of the day, he is pictured in a lot of photos.


From the other side of the "Eye of the Needle."

Am I a Sarah bandit?

Some say that this young lady and I look alike, but when Sarah Hughes and I stand side by side I'm fairly certain that we just look like plausible sisters. In the past bartenders have asked, "Sarah, would you like a drink?" And when I respond yes and they give me a drink and say it's on the house, I always wonder if they think they have just given a drink to Sara Taylor or Sarah Hughes the local folk singer. I would have to make an educated guess that around once a week at the least someone tells me they really enjoyed my show the other night, and around once a month I get a big hug from someone asking what I am doing in town, since Miss Hughes recently moved to Austin. It's not really a hard life being a faux Sarah, so maybe I'll just grab a guitar and milk it for all the sweet beer I can drink.

I love weapons

It turns out light sabors are really fun to play with, especially when you can use the iPhone light sabor simulator at the same time. And yes mom, this is in fact what I do all day long.

Rookie Ride was fun this year

Mushrooms

In my backyard there are hundreds of these guys hanging out, growing and dying. Pretty cool lookin' if you ask me.

So the Razorback game was pretty fun.