sometimes things have to be incredibly painful and difficult, just to show you how much they really mean to you. without them, you would never appreciate the love and joy that is ahead.

eat your heart out google maps

powers of ten: a journey through molecules and space

this video will certainly mess with your reality.

thanks katharine

summer project.

Terra Chair

definately the coolest thing i've seen in a long time. i want to try and fashion my own, afterall, i do not have 100 bucks to drop on some cut up cardboard.

the first icelandic council

iceland evening

walking up a crevace in the evening, coasting down an icy path on our butts in the pitch black night and sliding across a parking lot with 2 inches of ice on it. thats what happened at this place.

good thoughts are all i can have now. and its going to be great.

hawaiian pizza...

nothing like pizza chef hawaiian pizza. me, oliver and carla sessioned a large and lets just say: I.B.S. tmi? idc.

i took a long and wet walk through the woods today, and stared at the white river for a long time, made up some metaphors using the river, a bridge over the river, the birds flying over the river, and the abandoned (i think) wise potato chips warehouse right on the river. ask me about them sometime when i'm givin out a thousand yard stare.

anyways, tonight was not without its rousing games of uno and hide and seek, carla dominated especially with this gem:

in other news, i'm addicted to cnn, msnbc (i'm so guilty of tuning in for the abrams report far too often, and sometimes the most even though my blogging skills far exceed their petty attempt) and also deadliest catch. if you don't know, corey arnold is in this season on "rollo". incredible.

somber notes on muskrats.

lake champlain, ny/vt

i bought a fishing pole at walmart today, i'm going to be fishing alot, i also learned how to carry my canoe on my shoulders to make the quarter mile hike to the river from my house and made some decent anchors using sand and milk jugs.

earlier i saw a muskrat that had been run over by a car on the bottom of my road. her head was completely crushed and her guts were spilling out of her mouth. i could tell that she had been nursing her young because all her teets were huge. i drove by it twice today and had a hard time thinking about her babies without their mother. i walked down to it before dinner with a shovel and buried it next to my favorite creek at my new house (its kinda the only creek, but its still a mighty fine creek) and fashioned a little gravestone out of a flat rock and said i was "sorry" that she had to die and that her babies might die, tomorrow i'm going to try and find the babies. it was a sad day for muskrats. it was a good day for rain.

making attempts

i moved back to vermont. my life is in somewhat of shambles, i've realized things that are some of the most incredible realizations i've ever had in my life, i'm more in love than i've ever been, it feels incredible, but that love unattainable for some time. unfortunately for her, all i have is time, i can't do anything to shake this. so while i'm dealing with this way of life, i'll be trying to stay busy by releasing images hopefully on a daily basis (thanks daniel). i also plan on climbing mountains, hiking through forests, convincing hot air balloon owners of free rides, and of course, showing her how much i love her every chance i get. the summer's legitimacy weighs heavily on the shoulders of my ability to stay on top of myself, and i know it will be very hard, but i got nothing else to do but be the best i can.