What's that you say? Today is Thursday? Yeah yeah, I know. Cut me some slack...I've been trying to figure out what I really want to be when I grow up as well as suffering from "there are a million things to write about but I'm just feeling kinda blase' so I'm gonna curl up and read a few books for a few days and ignore everyone and everything and then maybe I'll feel like writing..." Oh and I've also been working on how to break the Guinness Book of World records for longest run-on sentence, ever. How am I doing?
The "Pink-Slip" party we started last Friday afternoon lasted well through late Saturday night, so Sunday morning I got up, not wanting to do much of anything strenuous (which included the act of hauling my big ass out of bed), and tossed dinner into the crock pot and by mid-day we were all suffering from a case of cabin fever. So whilst the slow-cooker simmered away at supper, we packed up the camera and headed out to Ft. Popham for a mini-sunset-trek.
The light was generally pretty craptastic and I didn't get many shots I thought worthwhile, but I did get some shots of Gaby playing with her shadows along the walls of the old fort and some of them turned out pretty cute...
I had the best time continuing to sit there and watch her play with her shadow whilst I popped off the occasional photo!
After looking at these photos for a couple of days now, I have to admit that they are finally starting to grow on me. I'm pretty fond of the color the setting sun cast on the granite walls of the fort. I love the shadow-play element of them but at first I wasn't too thrilled with the overall quality of the photos and now that I've had a chance to sit and look at them for a while, I am actually pretty taken with them.
I did manage to get a couple of non-shadow pictures of Gaby as well...
I think the fact that she was really beginning to become irritated with me and my camera is becoming obvious in the next two shots. I love this one because it's sort of "glowy" with the setting sun reflecting off of Gaby...
Gaby literally told me, right before I took this next one, "NO more picture mumma!"
Of course, when the chance arose to capture a near-silhouette of Gaby and her daddy, I took it!
When she finally made an escape from my invasive lens, I got a couple of other shots of the Ft. and the surrounding area at sunset...
Sunset at the bay surrounding Ft. Popham, framed by lobster pots on the shore...
One of the side walls of the Ft. with a lighthouse atop an island in the distance...
I love my Maine coastline. I'm hanging onto it right now with everything I have. I have a feeling we won't be here much longer, so I'm going to capture every moment that I can while we are still here, calling this place home. I hope you guys will bear with me if I become maudlin and post an obscene amount of photos from my beloved shore.
Indeed, we may have to move to go where the work is, but this will always be home. A part of my soul will always remain here and one day I hope I'll come back here to rest my bones along these waters once more.
