Take Me Away..A Sweet Escape...

A Secret Place...for better days..

Location: My secret hiding place to ponder

When: Saturday.06.19.08

I woke up to take my photography class this morning taught by Kathy Adams Clark. Massive, massive information i learned!! I mean the drive behind the motivation was found in this 6 hour class...so much so that I decided to go straight to taking pictures afterwards.
I went to my precious spot like the smeagle creature I am... and peered into the man-made lake. after looking at something that i thought was horrific and finding out that it was my reflection in the water (lol) i decided to just walk around the lake. I made this friend first:

Fearless Freddy froggy. now fearless freddy froggy had many friends chillin with him on that block but they all jumped in the water when they saw me... not him. I waited for his friends to come back..i was laying on my tummy when i took this pic and instead you could see the water ripple where the others were to just waiting for me to leave so they could jump out. I honestly think i annoyed the shiii out of these frogs... i could only compare it to the annoyance i cause my ex lol...they just wanted to chill and i was all up in their personal space. ribbit. hahahha everyone loves me i dont care. tsk..tsk..

so i keep walking, walking, walking... and i meet my friend #2

Clingy Chicharra. What is a Chicharra? Well boys and girls, not only am i equipped with a camera, i keep you in touch with your mother-nature.... and dont think you can find it on wikipedia....A chicharra is an insect that makes those loud noises in dry areas..such as memorial park..where u hear this real loud rattlesnake type sound... yah...that noise is caused by a bunch of these critters on the trees and in the grass. Eventually it grows wings and has irradescent colors..really interesting. I have to buy a $1200 lens in order to take close enough pictures of these guys at a 300f4 stop... its ok if u dont know what that means...photog talk... (sticks nose up in the air..lol)

alright so here I am poking around trees and poking around lakes in my secret spot in houston. The irony of it all is that this location is right on westheimer, the busiest street in houston. How da hell is that peaceful? I've yet to solve that mystery, but it just is. Its a wide nice man-made lake as seen here:

It would be a nice spot for a picnic or to stroll along with someone. I might also add that I released my little turtle i found about 6 years ago into these waters... his name is Squirtle. My biggest fear is that he mutated into a teenage mutant ninja... lolz... im sure I'll catch him there at another time. Last time I saw him was two years ago...

Ok so back to poking around.....poke...poke... lol...so um there was this hole... hahhaha noooo a hole in one of the trees.... so my curious a$$ goes reaching into it with a stick because I saw this camera canister thing wrapped up all funny. I grab it with sticks and pull it out and now i want to open the canister. At this point i'm thinking and hoping to find a million dollars wrapped up in a kodak film canister... hahah at the same time im not wanting some nasty spider or blood or something crazy to fall out. Instead, after peeling off the cap with two sticks (took me 10 minutes) this is what falls out:

what da???? Papers???!!! lolz.... where's da reefa?!!! hahhahahahhah so um, maybe my secret place isn't so secret???? daaaaaaaaaaaamn bamboozled again. lol.

Otays, thas enough of my adventures for this week. Anyways, I plan to buy more lenses - actually writing all this off as a business expense, will have a company name registered this week. I'm contemplating on becoming an underwater photographer. Ms. Kathy Clark is a full time Nature Photographer and she said she makes as much as she did as HR at a hospital when she worked in the corporate world...finally she was able to leave and do her passion full time. THAT is what i want! just in the water.. i am pisces.. i need to go back to my realm dammit! hahah cuz im a mermaid. hahhahahahhah omg ur retarded. yah anyways so my next endeavor is to get scuba certified sometime next month!! ooooo i can't wait!! sharks aint ready. lol hmm.. man thats not funny...