my newest hobby

Painting is now and will forever be my first love. I simply adore painting. But lately I've found a new art form to keep me busy. 

It began with a pretty camera to take photos of my paintings. Then spring came and I started hiking. So naturally I began taking some photos of trees for reference. You know, angles, bark, lighting that kind of thing. And then i started to notice little things. Things that were interesting. Things that i wanted to share. 

Now its a challenge to look harder for the amazing things mother nature has to offer. 
Sometimes its easy, and sometimes .... a lot of times actually, a bit frustrating.

 But defiantly rewarding when i can find something beautiful. Ive seen a few spectacular photos. They seem to capture life, light, motion and emotion. A piece of nature frozen to look upon forever. How lucky and inspired one must be, to be in the right place at the right time. 

My life seems to be filled with adventure. At least that's what i like to call the lovely little things life likes to give me... adventures. This weekend I'm off to Fairbanks. Trust me I'm cringing. It seems my latest adventure requires a move there. I never made it to Valdez and I'm thrilled. But it seems a move in my life is unavoidable. (right now your asking yourself: is there a point to this?) There is! I will be going to the midnight sun festival where i will be surrounded by art of all kinds. At least that's what I'm told. So hopefully, i will have captured something amazing, something inspiring, something worth an amazing blog;) 
I have high hopes for this city I'm about to call home, for my new hobby, and for getting better at the whole blog thing. Because honestly, i can't keep rambling forever.