Procrastinating.

It's Sunday evening. I should be doing the piles of homework that I have, but instead here I am. It's the end of term, and all I can think about is being done. Also, how irritating the weather is, end of May and snow on the mountains? What's with that? Anyways, I went out and took pictures for fun instead of for my project, mainly because my project is night pictures, but no one will go with me, so I can't really do it. :( Anyways, I took these on the 19th, all around Ashland. Some are just past the city limits, others are in beautiful Lithia Park, and others, such as this first one are up in the hills. I'll say a few words about each just to delay the homework more.

As I said, this one is up in the hills. There were so many great views, just not so many great places to pull over. This day was weird weather-wise, it would sprinkle, then it would be sunny, then it would pour and various versions of this. So a few of the pictures I took from inside my car, which didn't turn out so well. I am insanely jealous of this view though!

This is in Lithia, there is a place along some of the trails that is just a rock bed, full of rocks like this. The other pictures I took didn't turn out nearly as well as this one did.

This one might be my favorite that I took that day. Not for the quality of the photo, or for anything else about the composition, none of that. I love this photo purely because I was surrounded by trees, and water, and just nature. There were no roads, or other people. I love being in the woods, or on a trail, but I don't get to enjoy it nearly as often anymore. So the days that I get to enjoy it, I soak it in. I took this picture to have something to look at when I can't be there, I can picture myself in this photo. Maybe that's weird, but who cares?

These three were just me playing with the settings on my friend Stefan's camera. All of these were taken with it. I like the middle one best. Just because.

This last picture is on the wall of a bathroom in Lithia. I don't know what it was, but seeing this hit me especially hard that day. Maybe because I was thinking about my photography and how disappointed i've been in it lately. Maybe it's because of the other drama going on. I don't know, but it hit me like a sack of potatoes, so I had to take a picture. If you can't read it, it says, "Trust in Yourself." Something I should be doing more of. I'll work on it.

Anyways, I should get back to homework, classes are almost done and I can't wait.