censored

As most people know by now PIPA and SOPA are two bills being considered in Congress. These bills would severely alter the way we are able to utilize the web by censoring entire websites, viewable content, and search results. You would no longer have complete control over what you are allowed to post or look at. Sites like Pinterest, Flickr, Google, Youtube, Facebook, and Vimeo would be severely effected, not to mention any Blogging medium such as Blogger, Tumblr, and Wordpress. I for one want to be able to post, pin, listen, and read freely, therefore, in accordance with todays webstrike I am participating in a content blackout.

For more information about the bills or protest click here, here, or here.

[[ censored. ]]

more snow imagery (from my phone)

Well I cannot say it is quite as lovely out today with lots of slushy rain instead of pretty snow, but like I mentioned I have a lot more pictures from yesterday and over the weekend from some little outings in the snow. Walking down to the football field was especially interesting, tons of unspoiled snow on such a giant flat surface was a bit overwhelming visually. Also, check out the sweet frozen spiderweb I saw (near the bottom).


sunday at nate & alicias giant property

[[ frost covered trees. giant christmas tree. holy tree. front yard. ]]

driving around town

[[ frosty windows. blustery drive. footprints. gorgeous! ]]

frost covered reeser stadium

[[ a completely white and silent reeser stadium. ]]

monday morning on the way in to work

[[ frozen spiderweb. views from my office taunting me. ]]

grownups should get snow days too

This morning was gorgeous. Everything looked like it had just been sprinkled with powdered sugar. Sadly, I had to work, but Pat had the day off so he went out after dropping me off and snapped some pictures with my good camera. Check em out! (and don't be surprised if I post a million snow pics I took with my phone tomorrow because I sure do love pictures of snow).

[[ snow pictures take by pat this morning. ]]

Notice my poor lonely glove sitting on the ground? We did not find it until around noon it blended in too much!

the light

Tomorrow I am going to a service for Dan, my step dads father, who passed away shortly after Christmas. Everyone wants it to be more of a celebration of his life than a wake, but I am still not entirely sure what to expect. I would imagine that regardless emotions will be running high this weekend. I know that some of his friends will be bringing their classic cars over to the house in his honor since Dan was really in to preserving classic cars himself, had quite the collection, and even won several awards.

I was looking for something to go along with this post and found a great quote when I was breezing around on FFFFound. I decided to take the quote and make my own representation of it. I know that everyone is having a tough time right now, and I find this to be extremely relevant, even if it is from a very famous and lovable story. Remember to smile, laugh, and enjoy the moment, no matter how bad things may seem to get, it is what he would want after all. :)

[[ harry potter quote, styled by me. ]]

lots of purple again today. a happy accident. 

painted sky

Well it took a while, but I am finally caught up on all of my pictures from the holidays! I think I will take a breather for today and keep it super short, but look at this beautiful sunset that was waiting to greet me when I walked out of work!! So gorgeous. It looked just like a painting, deep violet with neon pink fire. Reminds me of a book I had when I was little...

[[ southtown sunset. ]]

sunriver part II :: nye / sledding

Sunday (January 1, 2012) we drove up Mt. Bachelor to do some sledding. Everyone had fun, but we all came away with some injuries. I got some decent action shots with the help of Pat, but these pictures do not do the hill justice, it was actually a pretty long/steep run with some jumps. I also have a few pictures from New Years Eve (Friday), but since we were keeping it causal, I do not have too many from the night, so I put those second.

[[ sledding on mt. bachelor new years day, sunday 1/1/2012. ]]

[[ a few pictures from new years eve, saturday 12/31/2011. ]] 

sunriver part I :: snow walk

Saturday morning (12/31) we woke up to a beautiful snowy day and decided to go out exploring the area. Though my good camera died halfway through our little hike, I still managed to snap quite a few pictures of the area. The dark pictures are from Friday night when we were playing with Harlow, Rory's pup.

[[ pictures from our little treck around sunriver saturday 12/31. ]]

[[ harlow play time in the heavy snow friday night 12/30. ]]