Ode to Sara, by KCK and Leflar

There was a young waitress named Tease

With pizza and pitchers she'd please

If she was nervous

When she came to serve us

Then her breast she would squeeze

Hahaha...Thanks Robert for the link

Colyn Buicking ice

It's a white Christmas!!

So naturally mom and I broke out the sleds! What a blast! (R.I.P. the tiny green sled from our childhood with both Jack and I painted on the handle)

Goin' fast!

Mum and I ready to go.
Takes me back.
Thumbs up from mom
How dangerous of me! Taking photos while at max speed! (Just kidding, I was barely at a crawl)

I WON THE LOTTERY!

I get an entire dollar!

Winter winter

Colyn Sabering a Champagne bottle

To see in full screen go here. 

Does anyone know who this little guy is?

I'm thinking Green Stink Bug... but I'm no expert. 

Shower time!

Today while showering(I know! I never do that!) I noticed that the water droplets on my shower-curtain were looking particularly interesting in regard to how the light was arranging their shape and color. So, like anyone else, I took photos of them. I went ahead and edited the last picture for fun just because I like super strong contrast, so that ones edited for all to know.

mmmmm....Arkansas

More Terrapin Branch and Boen Gulf stuffz. To see the lot of photos visit HERE!where they start. 

Can anyone tell me what this is???

If anyone is interested in knowing what tapeworm looks like, here it is! My dog Sally had it, but don't worry, not me. What curious and disgusting shapeshifting little creatures. 

Another Successful hike: last week in Terrapin Branch

More photos here if you'd like to look.

I found my way up to Chicago again this last weekend for a beautiful weekend of weather and possibly a penumbral eclipse. While driving past lake Michigan on Saturday night I noticed a red object on the horizon, not even realizing that it was the moon for several moments. Once we figured out that it was a "harvest moon" or penumbral eclipse I believe, we turned around and headed down a dock to get a better glance. Unfortunately I was unable to take any photo that even remotely displayed what we saw, but I did manage to get a reasonable shot of the city.

Déjà vu

Similarly to two years ago on New Years, I am once again stuck in the snowy blizzard that is Colorado in the winter. In an effort to make it home a day early for Harvest Moon BWB and I left Denver at 7am yesterday, but only made it 88 miles east to Limon before the roads were closed due to "Adverse Conditions." To be honest the snow cops were right to close it down because the winds were gusting up to 43mph with whiteout conditions. But now, the roads are clear! The sun is out! The wind has stopped! But we are still stuck here in Limon with the threat of several more hours before roads are supposed to open. Puleeeeez.

On Wednesdays I tutor a 14 year old boy that some might say I have about as much in common with as a flower pot. Until now. After explaining that he couldn't have a job yet because he was too young, he went on to mention this:

"If I had any money anyhow, I would just spend it all on fireworks. I love fireworks. $3,000? I'd spend it on fireworks."
-Dillon

I. Love. Arkansas.

Yesterday Brandon, Ben and I went for a nice day hike out and around Bowers Hallow Waterfall(pictured below). The day was a cloudy gorgeous 58 degrees or so, making for perfect hiking conditions and excellent lighting for photo taking. I would recommend checking out more of the photos from the trip here. 

From the archives

This made me laugh because if you're a catholic or used to be a catholic you know it's true. The situation is Holden Caulfield is talking to some nuns. 

"I'd have enjoyed it more though, I think, if I hadn't been sort of afraid, the whole time I was talking to them, that they'd all of the sudden try to find out if I was a Catholic. Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

I guess I can't stop myself, here I am blogging again.

This is simply a quote I liked from a book I read quite a while back that I have even posted about previously. 

"That was the funny thing about a dictatorship: it was great for culture. If there was one sure way Pinochet could support poetry, it was by staging a military coup, shooting a bunch of people, or tossing some tear gas around once in a while. Literature became not a pointless abstraction, but a pointed one. The history books were empty but the poets spoke volumes."

-Patrick Symmes from Chasing Che

This one's for my lava lamp(and Rbill)

On Saturday morning as I was heading out the door for work, I noticed a chill in the air and so grabbed a jacket from my coat rack. This would have been nothing to note had I then not heard a rather loud thump followed by a heavy glug glug glug. Yes, the jacket I grabbed caught hold of my lava lamp sitting on the desk below it and pulled the ancient artifact onto the floor. The cap had somehow lost it's top in the oddest of ways and the innards began pouring out.  So, with 2 minutes at my disposal to leave the house before I would be late for work, I hurriedly soaked up two old t-shirts worth of the dull blue yet somehow glowing liquid, set a fan in front of it and made sure my pets were outside before jetting off. Seeing as I received this blue lava lamp with a gold base for my 8th birthday, the thing was only 14 days shy of seeing it's own 16th birthday. Now all that's left of this childhood favorite toy is a very large and very odd blue stain in the guest bedroom.

I'm quite certain that anyone who is actually still checking this blog has realized my postings have all transfered to my smugmug where I keep my photos. I started this blog in order to have an online record of some of the photos I took that were most memorable to me and also to have a place to keep family and friends up-to-date on my travels in Latin America. Seeing as both of those have been cancelled out for now I have little reason to continue posting. Besides that I am a terrible writer, so I'm basically going elsewhere in order to avoid embarrassing myself by confining my post to a somewhat text free website.

If you'd like please check back around May 2010 when I will hopefully be moving to Eastern Europe for 27 months! I was recently accepted into the Peace Corps and am waiting for them to inform me which country I will be going to. Although I am not certain, it is likely I will be sent to a location that in general lacks broad internet access, meaning wordy post will be more relevant seeing as people back home just might wanna know again what's happening with me far far away.

Thanks again everyone for checking up on me, and enjoy the archives! 

SaraT