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Yes, I said that once by accident. What I had meant to say was that it was interesting showering in the dark, in commenting on a recent power outage... but of course Jeff and Steve never let me live that one down, hehe.

I showered by candlelight this morning, good times showering in the dark. The power was still out from last night.

The power went out at home at about 10:30 last night. After sitting around in the dark for a couple hours, the boys and I went upstairs to see what was going on up there, of course Soogie had a bunch of candles lit (apparently they had some lit before the power went out, hmmm... Makes me wonder if it really was the storm that caused the power to go out). At one point we went out front to see how far the outage went, and it didn't seem to go far beyond our neighborhood. The dogs were barking at us for being out front so Soogs just lets them out. Indy was hyper enough that we thought he just might make a run for it, and as long as he was out running around, Bobo wouldn't come in. After awhile Dan went and got his laser pointer to lure the dogs back in, and we got Bobo first and shut him in the house, but somehow Soogie didn't see that, she had some treats she was trying to lure the dogs in with. We got Indy back in the house and me and Steve went back inside, while Dan stood out on the porch and Soogie stood there on the sidewalk trying to call Bobo to come back, hehehe. Dan just stood there and let her call him for a while knowing he was in the house just to give her a hard time for just letting them out in the first place, haha. So mean but we know if anyone has to chase the dogs down, it's the boys, so we get annoyed when the girls let the dogs loose. It cracked me up tho that Dan just let her call Bobo for a while thinking he was history, haha. Cute Soogs... We're so mean.

Well it's good to have a camera again to take photos with. I am having a bit of trouble getting it to focus in macro mode-- not quite as slick as the old camera for some reason, bummer. Maybe I just need to get used to how it works.

Now I just need to commit to posting photos more frequently =D Heaven knows this summer will not be short on photo-ops.

Nothing like a day off in the Spring to lift one's spirits. I left the house this morning to a clear blue sky, warm air, and trees blossoming. I thought, I've got to see if I can get my camera working to take a picture of some of those blossoms... just to capture a moment of spring.

I love spring. A lot of people I talk to say that fall is their favorite season. I'll admit that the beauty of fall has grown on me a lot over the years, but subconsciously I know that it's the precursor to winter, my least favorite season-- cold, gray, and dead. I love how the seasons of the year are metaphors for the seasons of life, and spring brings with it a freshness and newness of life, full of beauty. In spring I feel alive. I feel free from the chains of winter, I feel alive, I feel like doing.

And I feel like taking pictures... and alas my digital camera won't budge. I charged up the battery again this morning and fiddled with it, trying to get the camera to turn on... once in a while it does. Not today. I realize how much I miss taking pictures. It's sad and ridiculous how much we take things for granted until they are gone. In about a week and a half this web site will be 4 years old... and it wasn't started for me to get on and ramble about nothing, that was just a perk of having it. I started it as an outlet for some of the digital photos I was taking. Is it any coincidence that I started taking pictures in the spring, and that spring is when I begin to feel the itch to take photos again after a dead winter devoid of motivation?

So as part of my day off, I spent some time collecting my digital photos and gathering them into one place so that they're more easily accessible, and chose a photo to display for today. Being as I have thousands of photos, I suppose there's no reason why I can't just post photos for the sake of posting photos... for no other reason than the look at them again. To find an appropriate photo for this beautiful spring day, I went back about a year. Without looking too hard I chose the one you see above, taken from the gardens at Turtle Bay on the North Shore of Oahu. I took nearly 500 pictures while I was there... let's see if I can do better this year :)