Oh the glorious sun...No wonder I was a bit on the cranky side yesterday...I spent 2 beautiful days on the beaches of the oh so far away land of Alki. Sunday now I will tell you one of those days you wish you could capture in all of its wonder-wanting to replay it over and over in your head like some amateur home video-knowing maybe you and one other person will get it. It's the beauty of home video you know. What more could a girl want then 2 black dogs, one very attractive grrl and when I could close my eyes for as long as 10 seconds it felt like a beautiful late spring/early summer day. You know those ones I am talking about-usually don't happen till May. So this day in essance was a tease. All the way around. Not even close enough to May, still went home with one dog, and not quite sure what to do with how I feel about the grrl. Yesterday I kept closing my eyes feeling this burning image in my mind-hoping that its warmth would lift the chilly dampness seeping through my clothes- and yet when I would open my eyes the fog remained. Fog is a funny thing-and somehow it seemed to be a reflection of my thoughts and actions yesterday. I felt weighed down suddenly by everything, letting everything pull me down. And still I would grab on to that image and hold on once again closing my eyes and feel the burning rays upon my skin.
Sunday-one of those days where you feel that if there was anywhere else you could be that you would be exactly where it is you are as if only you and that one other person were the only two that mattered in that moment.
So on Monday as I sat going crazy in my house trying to figure out what the hell was going on in my suddenly seeming one track mind I grabbed my camera and once again made the trek to those beautiful far-away beaches of Alki. Wandering the same path I did the day before I had time to sit and observe not only the beauty surronding me on the outside but that coming from the inside. I always find it to be a thing of beauty and wonder when we connect with other people who can bring out the best in us even if it is in thought. And the thing is they don't even know it. I am blessed today and my life is a bounty of incredible gifts. I wouldn't trade this moment or any for anything different. As I sat watching the sun set-wishing the grrl and the dogs were there I thought to myself- relationships are like photography to me- I never know what I am looking for but I always know when I see it. The gift I get is that the picture never looks the same on the tiny monitor of the camera and I never know how it is going to turn out. So capture the moment, feel it burn when you close your eyes and keep your eyes open for the next moment.
