Another journal

I shot this at a park in Buffalo, WY. I kept forgetting I had it, and just now edited it down (still a whopping 87 seconds, though). I love those dang birds.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

Sweet shoes!, originally uploaded by B_Zedan.

A friend of Chase’s who is also from Buffalo was in town on his way to take his girl to Notre Dame, so the four of us went bowling.

Chase got a strike.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

Wyoming God-Light, originally uploaded by B_Zedan.

So, we spent our first full day (as opposed to an evening being staggeringly tired after being on the road 24 hours) in Buffalo yesterday and I got to experience what Chase refers to as “wind”, as apparently what we get in the Tri-Met area is a “breeze”. We wandered around and stopped at a couple of places Chase used to work, got to look at the water treatment plant his dad runs (rad!), and generally had an awesome day, overdosing on conversation with folks who I’ve never met and Chase hasn’t seen in ages.

It’s now been raining on and off for quite a while, so maybe we brought Oregon with us, or nature in general feels bad for me, as I am used to this, and am now surrounded by stuff like this*.

I have my digital point and shoot and will most probably be dumping pictures the whole time we’re travelling about. Right now, I’ve got shots from the drive in a set here.

*Though that is Montana, which is distinctly less rad than Wyoming, though the Crow Nation is freaking boss, but that isn’t Montana, anyhow.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

So, I will be hard to get a hold of for the next two weeks as we go on our first vacation in four years. And I’ll be commenting even less on everybody’s stuff! I’m gonna try to check the email at least once a day, if I can, using Chase’s mom’s power as the Young Adult librarian to access the local internets and things, mostly so I don’t drown in emails. Though we’re going to be shooting mainly film on this trip (NERDS), I am taking my little digital point-and-shoot and a card reader, in hopes I can toss some snaps up on Flickr intermittently.

Here is my freehand embroidery interpretation of where we are going:

I think this is the cutest state I’ve done in the set. It’s on raw canvas, which—non-surprise—is a total pain to embroider. This guy’s French-knotted head was a terror to do.

*Though he’s spent and equal amount of life both here and south of San Diego**
**Yes, there are things south of San Diego

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.