for me, this is just an unforgettable image, representing summer adventures.

but above that, having this image - with the certain perspective it was taken from -  fill up my whole desk top really still allows me to feel like we are driving up to the rockies. every time I close all my browser windows, I smile!


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it is entirely possible to *plan* to spend the entire day doing your grad school assignments and reading, and somehow, instead you have spent it all  running errands, writing frivolous, superfluous emails, and randomly surfing the random web.

just fyi.

It was the summer of flip flops, the ipod on random, road signs, random hotels, grocery stores in Jackson, in Palm Springs, in Springdale. It was the summer of big sky, dry desert heat, mountain peaks, lonely roads and the smells of fresh pine from the trees. It was the summer I try to get back to now - when I slip on those sandals, I feel as ( Read more... )

just randomly to say that "elizabethtown" was better the second time around, a year later. last year i liked it but sort of thought the last bit droned on, so I didn't love it. this year, love!  we stood at some of those exact places at the end, on our road trip too. those roads, the flatness, the sun, the horizon, the bridges, the rivers, ahhhh

while driving home from boston, mass.

The car is a bubble - it is just you and me, the blackness of the highway, the lights of other cars sometimes illuminate our world. It is enclosed, encapsulated, enveloped, where words spoken bounce back from the windows, never to be found outside. It is only two of us, rushing past the landscape and the towns, ( Read more... )

The crackle under my feet of the bitter hard plains of middle america - the sound of life, exploding underneath me...

I want the west wind to blow through my heart until there is nothing left but empty space to fill with something so big that this world cannot hold it...

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i'm back. i will never, ever use blogger and never ever use myspace. hate.

it was the taste of the air streaming into our lungs;
the mountains rose out of the flatness;

it rushed by;
that summer.


Josh Ritter concert was awesome. LOVE.

I hate, hate, hate February and March, go away winter.

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I found the prettiest photos of Rocky Mt. National Park:
http://www.explore-rocky.com/panorama/default.html

MY DESKTOP NOW, SO PRETTY:

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::does happy dance::

going to see Josh Ritter on January 30th at an awesome place in Philly.

ok, found this totally by accident but these are so the types of photos I want done for me on my wedding day:

http://kellysullivanblog.blogspot.com/

just amazing!