Is it weird

That one of my favorite places is a cemetery.....Laural hill is full of these flowers this time of the year. I love it there.

pic of the day for me

Trees are awesome!

random photos taken in the past week

I just really like coming here, it's peacefull I have a lot of photos at this spot.

Some guy taking a walk across the water.

Our old house, one of my favorite spots in OOB that we lived...right across the street from the beach.

I found this mail box in passing and just like the blues so I shot it.

a statue at Laurel Hill

Cascade falls

Down town OOB

The Strip at OOB another month and it wont be so quiet here

The docks at Camp Ellis

some persons window over looking the break water...I just thought....what a cool room if I had a room like that Id be in all the time.

Some random person on a bike...I often shoot people in passing

The Train...dah....I just happen to be in the right spot at the right time...I love trains...

Feeling the need for Spring

I love Snow, I am truly one of those Mainah's who loves everything about this great state. Were kind of manic...We get summer and we can't wait for the heat to be over and the colors of fall. Fall comes and we start thinking snow and getting ready for it, Ice storms I could do with out...I mean I love to photograph the aftermath but I don't think I will ever like losing heat and being cold. Thunder storms of Spring...LOVE IT! The mud, love the smell, Summer, love the beach and the lake and then we start all over again. Today I wanted spring, I wanted it to be sunny enough to grab my camera and take pictures but I got clouds all morning so I went to my tons of logged photos and pulled this one out. However this was taking on a very warm (summer like) October day it just felt like spring to me. So there you have it.

Back to why I started this blog in the first place....Healthy living...

I'm now about what 2 2 1/2 weeks sober from Diet Pepsi. Still have a hard time not stopping at Wendy's to get a large diet on the way to work. Jenn talked me into drinking Clearly Canadian to get my fizz fix, its a bit sweet for me so I just drink a little but it's enough to stop me from picking up a DP. What would I do without that kid in my life. Started adding running to my daily walks and doing my biggest loser KICK MY ASS tapes. I think its safe to say I pretty much have buns of steal right now. Weights coming off slow but I expected that.
I feel a hell of a lot better so that's good.

Looking forward to the summer...it will be out last one in this house. No more POOL :( I won't miss this place but I will miss that pool. I call it my pool, no one hardly uses the thing.
Will be living closer to the beach so I'm looking forward to waking up and smelling the ocean. I missed that living here.

On that note...I'm off to bed. Need to get a walk or short jog in, in the am.

YES I did it~

I've been trying to give up Diet Pepsi for months now and I did it over the weekend. It took Jenn saying to me "you just have to do it mom, just stop" So Saturday morning I woke up and said to myself NO MORE. I'm six days sober lol. The stuff was killing me and I feel so much better just after six days. It may even be seven I think my last one was on thus last week. This may seem little to some but I was drinking sometimes 2 litters a day of that swell.

Also started walking again.

Yup things are getting better.

Looking back and things learned

Facebook is a wild place....I've been getting back in touch with lost people in my life...A friend who made a choice 20+ years ago who came out on the other end and took a big step to get in touch with me...We went out to dinner and talked for hours. The first boy to ever kiss me when I was in second grade or so who was also the first boy to give me a real kiss (s) when we were teenagers, the boy in jr high who made my heart stop, friends I went to high school with who I shared some of my best memories with....

Yup Facebook has been a wild ride this past week. It's also made me feel really old, LOL.

Sometimes it's not good to go back but, sometimes it's awesome. It's been pretty awesome.

Enough said.

Old times

This is where I went to High School... Recently I've gotten in touch with people from that time. It's been cool finding out where everyone has landed. A lot of talent came out of that place. Writers, directors, producers, actors, artist. I loved my time at Salmon Falls, some of my best memories have come from there.

What I learned there lasted a life time. I learned so much more then book stuff, I learned about life and I'm glad I went when I did. I think if I had started a few years later then I did it would be a different story because the school changed in the end. I learned about caring for people, about how sometimes you just have to put your self aside and step up and do something for someone else because its the right thing to do. I learned to listen. I learned to be in the moment and really take notice of everything around up and appreciate everything that's happening even the not so fun stuff because there are lessons in everything to be had. I learned to appreciate people because tomorrow they may not be there and I learned to have fun there.

It was some of the best times and I treasure my memories from there and make them a part of my day everyday.