Weddings

Today, I photographed a wedding in the Salem area. It was raining all day till it came time for the wedding and pictures. We were sooo blessed with great weather and light for photos. Here are some pics from that wedding and another.

Joke of the week

So there was this boy, Chris, who at a young age injured his eye and had to have it removed. His father being a wood worker made him a wooden eye. He sculpted it and painted it so that it would look as realistic as possible. However, growing up was still hard. All through school Chris would get teased for having an eye made of wood.

Senior year of high school Chris decided to finally go to prom. At prom he also had plucked up the courage to ask someone to dance. He had nothing to lose since he would be graduating soon and leaving high school. Well, he looked around the room and his eyes fell on Lani who happen to have a hump on her back. Lani, at the same time, too decided to ask someone dance with her for the same reasons as Chris.

She looked up and they locked eyes. Chris walked across the room and said, "would you care to dance with me?"

Lani replied, "WOULD I! WOULD I!"

He angrily said, "At least I'm not a HUNCH BACK!"

More jokes to come.

CNA

I passed my CNA test!!! I am officially a CNA now! Whoohooo!!! Can't wait to take my CNA2 so I can work in hospitals!!!

"Ambition"

"Ambition"

Fear hides behind my heart in the darkness

Not allowing it to fully grasp my heart or mind

In fear that fear itself will crush my hopes and dreams

But in pushing forward fear will always lag behind

Weird dream

Last night I had a weird dream. I can't remember the beginning but I was in some HUGE building. . . like a high school but 10x's bigger. It also had a movie theater.

I'm not sure why but there were huge animals roaming the halls. The animals weren't mean but they were big and none of the animals were recognizable as real but they could have been prehistoric.

I don't remember the exact progression but I ran into a couple that I grew up with since I was a child. Sherrie and Dave's daughter, Kate, was a childhood friend. I ran into them at the front of a movie theater. I could see the food counters and it was pretty packed. We were talking when all of a sudden we see some person flying through the air. and we see something green and tentacle like shoot out and grab another person. Fear shot through me but so did that feeling of nails on a chalkboard.

Sherrie said, "I don't want to be near here." And started to take off up some stairs but the stairs just lead us up and then down in practically the same spot. People were rushing to get away too. We ran and I remember kicking out a plastic square of a dividing wall so we could just get to the other side. It was all rushed in my dream. I called my parents and ended up finding them and some other people from my parent's church. We all ran up and found some secluded room that seemed safe.

We stayed in that room for awhile. It had a bathroom and running water. There was a group of people in that room who were from Africa and played the bongo drums and danced. I remember the night before we left the room they started to play the drums and dance. We all joined in.

The next day we packed up all our things. I don't know how we knew the monster was gone. We never fully saw it and we never heard anyone tell us it was gone. I packed up my backpack which was abnormally large. I packed up a My Little Pony cup, some disney toys, and other childish trinkets.

I don't remember what happened right after that but it then switched to a movie theater. . . the same one that the dream started out in. I ran into my friend Aubrey who was going to see some movie I didn't want to see. As I talked to her I looked up on the wall and there was poster of a new movie coming out. On the poster was the green monster with the long tentacles that had started the fear in my dream.

Jimmy

This is Jimmy, Iris' brother inlaw, who apparently will "out live" us all as Iris tells me. As the pugs brought me to Iris, Iris brought me to Jimmy. I love them all. Pugs, Iris, and Jimmy.

A month ago Jimmy gave me a beautiful bell from S. Korea. The story goes. . .

I'd planned on going to brunch with Iris and we met up a little before hand to chit chat. As we do. Jimmy came at 10:40 on the dot and walked us to the dinning room. We all ate and talked. It was a nice meal. On our way back Jimmy parted ways and headed to his place. Iris and I checked the post box and headed back to her place.

As I'm getting back to Iris' Jimmy comes up and hands me this beautiful bell (sorry for no pic). It looked like it was hanging between a gate (imagine a Japanese Tori). It was made out of some metal. . . brass maybe and it had a little hammer to ring the bell. The ring was the clearest I'd ever heard. On the bottom it had an inscription of "korea".

Jimmy told me that he'd been in the service and after WWII he'd gone back to S. Korea to pick up a group (I don't know military lingo. Sorry.) and some captain who'd stayed behind in Korea to help with trainings and other things in S. Korea. The men weren't allowed to go ashore but the Korean people came to them in little boats with trinkets to sell. He said that the bell was the only thing he bought. Jimmy told me that he wasn't sure to give it to in his older age and wondered if I wouldn't mind having it. If it didn't offend me (cute).

I was shocked and honored by this gift. It is in my window sill and when I get home I give it a little ring to remind me of my friends at the Towers and from where I was born.

Thanks Jimmy

Joy in "The Great State of Oregon"

Sunday I flew down to Sacramento/ Auburn to drive with my friend, Joy Barker, back up to Oregon. She came up to visit Monday-Thursday. Here are some pictures of our time at the coast.

Cheeeeeeeeese

Twin Rocks

Joy

seaweed

Hi, Brian

I have a crab

practicing yoga

got caught in the rain

Wet