Alison: day 2: road to the ONF House.

Took this one on the way out to my parents' house. That house is so important to me. It's the only place I'll always call home -- the only place on the planet that will forever possess my heart, and the only place I'll be able to show my children and my grandchildren with family pride and say "this is where your grandparents and greatgrandparents raised me."

Driving there sometimes is daunting and I dread it, but once I'm cruising, listening to music, I quickly begin to recollect how perfect it was to live so far away.

I'm sure at some point in the next 363 days, you'll see photos of the house.

By the way, I took this photo while driving. I tightened the camera strap to my wrist as tight as possible, put my finger on the shutter, and stretched my arm as low as possible down the side of my door. Pretty stupid really, but definitely made for a cool photo if you ask me.

Alison, Day # 13: this or that?

Once again, I can't decide! I was on my home yesterday and knew exactly what I was going to take a photograph of for yesterday's entry. But then I couldn't decide if I thought it would look better in black and white, or in color. What do you guys think?

This is the National Forestry property line marker. It's in our yard. I wanted to give you guys an idea of what kind of area I live in. And hopefully give your imaginations a nice morsel to develop an image in your heads of the world in which I live. I'm hoping the photographs you all post will do the same for me.

Also, another bit that might help your imaginations (too bad I didn't have my camera in hand for this . . .), I was going around a curve this morning on my way to work, and through the hazy fog I saw this large -- nay, enormous black silhouette. It's standing in the road, so I slow to almost a stop (dangerous! in a curve!) and as my eyes focus, I realize it's an incredibly large black bear! INCREDIBLY LARGE! He just stared at me, seeming to hope he were invisible, then when we actually saw one another, he bolted. It was amazing.