An apology is definitely in order in regards to my absence over the past few months. (August. May? Three months, jeez.) As for my lack of pictures and stories, another apology should be added to the previous one.
In other words, I'm really sorry you guys! I didn't plan on disappearing as I did, but life just took a bad turn and things have been pretty difficult for a while now. This summer has also been fairly boring, so I only have a couple of short, simple stories for you all about what I've been up to.
Firstly, I don't have a picture for you, but at the beginning of summer (the first weekend of June, I believe) my face went under a little. . .unplanned renovation. Meaning, I was at a hotel with my family and a couple friends, one friend and myself were swimming in the hotel pool, and I had a bit of an accident. I don't exactly recall what I was doing, I think I was just swimming around near the bottom of the pool, but since I wasn't wearing goggles I couldn't see that the incline of the pool was coming up very quickly and I smacked my face (more specifically my mouth). Now, I'm just thankful that I have some pretty big front teeth, (the only time I'm thankful for it, actually) because yes, they broke upon impact. Thankfully I wasn't in any pain and I was able to get my teeth repaired within a couple of days (a quarter of one tooth was rebuilt and half of the other had to be reconstructed), but it was quite a traumatizing experience for both myself and probably both of my friends as well. Not to mention the lisp I had for a good month afterwards really sucked.
Onto story number two! This one actually refers to the last two photos and isn't too much of a story, but later in June I had a job doing the photography at an acquaintance's sister's bat mitzvah. Long story short, I was on my feet for five hours straight, dealt with extremely loud music and obnoxious people, and the only enjoyable part of the evening on my end was when I had a lovely conversation with some elder relatives of the acquaintance discussing my camera, photography as a hobby, and a little bit into the inner-workings of the universe and what it entails. But I don't think I'm going to look into getting hired for any more party gigs anytime soon. (Oh yeah, and the two photos I snapped up above were of the party favors. I just really liked how they turned out!)
And last-but-not-least, the top five photos were from a little day-trip up to Geneva-On-The-Lake so my sister and mother could partake in my cousin's bachelorette party (my sister is a bridesmaid for the wedding later this week! She's really not excited, though, which is a bit disheartening, but we're all still very excited for my cousin nonetheless. She will make a beautiful bride and I hope that her marriage will be happy, healthy, strong, and flourishing.) Anyways, as I wasn't able to take part in the "festivities" of roaming about to winery after winery, my father and I headed up to Geneva-On-The-Lake so we could see what might be going on up there. Sadly it was a rainy day, so most of the fun things weren't running, but we still headed down to a nearby park and get some lovely photos of the lake in the rain (the top two photos are just a couple of what I captured that day). Another bummer was that we got caught in the previously-mentioned rain. (Normally I'm a big fan of going out in summer rain storms, but I'm not so big a fan when I have a fragile camera out in the open and it starts to downpour. The camera came out unscathed, thankfully!)
Anyways, the last three photos from the five were from the church-turned-winery we went to so we could pick up my mother and sister and make the gruesome, nearly two-hour trip back home in more rain. I'm a sucker for close-up flower photos (the one isn't quite close enough to be considered macro, I don't think.). The beautiful vineyards were also a plus to the scenery. It was really quite beautiful.
Sadly school is starting back up in a couple of weeks for me, which means that I'll have less time to explore (despite how little I do already) and even less considering the fact that I'm taking more difficult classes this year as well, boo.
I hope to get back to you all soon, though, so until then wish me luck!
Thank you all for bearing with my absences and thank you for embarking on my journeys with me, despite how few and far between they may be!
