Spectacular Wyoming!

I met a couple on the boat today who live in Wyoming. They were in the car ahead of me and when I saw their license plate I knew I needed to talk with them and here's why.

Two years ago as I was leaving Montana after my stint at photography school, we decided to take our time coming home and so started off camping in Yellowstone Park. After one night of camping we made our way along the upper north part of Wyoming and headed east through the state.

I still don't have the words to describe what we saw. What I remember is driving along in silence and the only word in my head was "spectacular" (a word I don't, if ever use). Out of nowhere my husband says to me, "Did you have any idea how spectacular Wyoming was?" I just looked at him and shook my head. Our mouths and eyes wide open.

So if you haven't been....just go. That's all I can say. Talking with this lovely couple today they reassured me I saw the "best" parts of Wyoming. So if you go, it's the upper north end, sitting right on the border of Montana and travel east, or west, depending on where you're headed.

Funny how things come up in your life sometimes as I have been thinking about Wyoming more than usual, hoping I would return someday and then I met this couple who gave me their address. Wyoming, I'm comin' back!

The image above is from Yellowstone. (I was shooting b&w film and this is a lousy scan - sorry). I've never been so close to buffalo before...we had one right beside our car at one point. I do have images of Wyoming still in negative format. Have to get on that at some point.

I've been spending a lot of time in my head

I'm going to switch things around for this post and ask you the reader to "post" your thoughts.

My question to you:

If you could live your dream life, what would it look like? What are the colours, the sounds. What does your internal landscape look like? What's sustaining you in this dream life of yours? I'd love to hear any thoughts to these questions.

KR

the state of my emotions

I'm feeling a sense of loss today. This feeling seems to be overshadowing everything I do today.

I called this blog, "the beauty of life" b/c of all this life is made up of, both good and hard times. We are a part of that mix and with it comes the beauty of our experiences. It can be difficult to see the beauty of all of our emotions when at times we wish some of them would go away, but in the end they do help us grow and change....hopefully.

When I'm feeling like I am today I remember a quote I read by Jung:

"Embrace your grief, for it will expand your Soul."

This quote helps me remember that it takes every kind of emotion to make up an individual. We don't have to hang on to our emotions, just ride their wave until another comes along.

On my way to work

I came across this chair on my way to the boat one morning. I happened to have my camera with me b/c I had a shoot in town. I'm trying to bring my camera with me more often and am happy to say that I have this summer more than before.

I like the colour of the chair and the fact that it reminded me of outdoor furniture from the 70's. I don't see chairs like this anymore.