Need For Speed

Oh boy, here comes the motorcycle fad. Sam, my cruisin' obsessed man, bought a motorcycle in June this year. I commend him for choosing such a beaut, but sometimes my toes curl in anticipation for him to get home from his trips. Even his every day trip to work and back...

Which by the way is only about 2 to 3 blocks away from home. 

Yup, I'm going to be slowing getting used to this.

Behold, my First Family Portraits

This beautiful family had the pleasure of being my first portrait shoot. And my how much I have learned thus far, I only hope to progress even further and perhaps capture future memories for Lindsay and her family.

This lovely lady, that beautiful blonde bombshell (and I'm not even talking about that adorable, blonde haired daughter of hers yet!) is a local LMP, Licensed Massage Practitioner in the small town of Port Angeles. I am personally all for trade, so she was willing to barter; family photos for a massage chair that I was in dire need of! It was a pleasure to work with her and her family, especially that bundle of energy she has for a daughter. We had some pouts, but overall she was quite cooperative... and even the pouts made the best family portrait look drastically adorable! 

 

Sol Duc Falls

The sound of rushing water, falling stories over a cliff, pouring into a pool of gushing glacier water overtake my hearing. The Sol Duc Falls is quietly nestled up a 25 minute drive paved road, continuing with a .8mile hike in through the trees until you come to the high bridge crossing over the falls. This waterfall is apart of the 78 mile long river that twists and flows through the Olympic Peninsula. Multiple voices, high in pitch to overpower the sound of the quick moving river, float across the moss cover rocks and up the high hills of the dirt path that continues on deeper into the forest. 

Lots of tourists visit. Many with their new found cameras. 

 

Today I learn how to bump up my exposure in order to capture the gloss of fast moving water and I personally think I have successfully completed my task. As well as enjoyed some snacks with Sam on a bench he built with fine smelling cedar. 

Yes, today was a stress relieving success.

Informal Introductions

She walks this earth, seeking high and low of a place to call her own. A place to sit crisscross applesauce and spill her useless, and sometimes odd, thoughts onto a surface for all to read and perhaps finally feel understood. 

 

Massage therapist by day, animal lover by heart, photographer by passion, and DayDreamer by spirit. I wouldn't call myself an extravagant person, nor would I ever call myself the perfect specimen. I would, however, call myself an explorer by heart, soul, and mind. Welcome to an introduction of myself...

 

An introvert, in every sense of the application of the word 'shy', I find myself often longing to express myself in ways that don't throw me into the middle of a puddle of people; at least not physically. Poetry slams and drama class in high school sounded fun and exciting, but I could never bring myself to pursue them fully. Instead, I often shied away to my own front yard in the evening, capturing spiders crawling on roses and flowers in full bloom in still photographs. Or perhaps indoors where I captured various photos of all my spoiled fur/quill babies (yes, I own one of the most wonderful creatures on the planet, a hedgehog).

 

One of my fur babies, Itty Bitty. Rescued from Olympic Peninsula Humane Society shortly after I started volunteering in 2013.

 

So thus I have created DayDreaming Reality in hopes to organize my cluttered thoughts and let some of my creative juices spill onto my readers computer screens to capture my readers (yes, that's you!) hearts, smiles, and various comments and hide them selfishly away for myself. Stick them in my pocket for a rainy day, eh?

Yes, my lovely 2yr old Itty Bitty looks a bit cross-eyed. We all have something a little different about each of us. In fact, she is not cross-eyed. She was born with her right eye a little under developed, thus resulting in a smaller eyeball than the other. She also has that little cowlick smack dab in the middle of her nose. By far the most precious thing about her. 

 

I digress. In the future you will learn more about myself I am sure. For now, I invite you to come on my adventures with me, thanks to this wonderful thing we call the internet. Alright, not always so wonderful, but in this case absolutely. Explore my changes in life as they rock thru my world and sway me every which way.

 

From Auburn...

...to Black Cherry (Or you could call it Purple!)