Tribute to Summer

29 September 2008 at 8:13 pm (Tribute) (family, home, Summer '08)

Nothing since June 24. Wow. Time to pick up some serious slack.

Back in June, my camera crapped out on me. It was about that same time that I seemed to lose interest in updating my blog. I know that blogs are supposedly primarily about the words you write, but I am often prompted by the pictures I take to delve into detail and write a blog post. So, without my camera and my amateur pursuit of visual poetry and prose, I quit writing. The dial-up in BFE, Washington, may have also had something to do with it…. who knows?

So, anyway, here I find myself not only with a camera once again and itching to click and write, but also BACK in CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND!! Wow. I mean, WOW. How time flies. Being on the ice last year, being a dining attendant in Antarctica, hitchhiking around the South Island of NZed, WWOOFing… A couple days ago, that all felt so long ago. But finding myself once again sitting in front of a crappy excuse for a computer at the YMCA on Hereford, my perspective’s been flipped and it seems like I never left. Did I go to bed last night and just dream that I spent a summer in Gifford? Which brings inspiration. A tribute to my brief but beautiful summer in Northeast Washington, before I can’t remember it at all…

And so. My Summer, or What I’ll Miss While in Antarctica:

Mountains, trees, farms, fields, dramatic skyscapes…