You will have noticed the photo post from earlier today — a rare bird these days, as a.) I haven’t been photographing much lately, and b.) I’m not particularly smitten by much of my photography… enough to post it here, anyway.
So, how did it come to be that I waited nine months to get this particular roll developed? Well, I’ll tell you…
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[Posted on Flickr by dianaschnuth].
Taken at the Toledo All-Star Review, 17 June 2006.
(Yes, I just got the film developed…)
Courtesy of Jill Shalvis:
Last night was Back to School night for the High School. It’s set up so that parents can experience the day as their child does. My daughter handed me my schedule. AP Calculus, AP Science, Weight Training, Leadership, and AP English. I looked at the schedule and felt the nerves jump in the pit of my stomach. “I already survived high school, I shouldn’t have to survive it again.”
Totally. Going to be me when I have a kid in high school.
I realized just now that the smell of spring reminds me of living off-campus during the summers at BGSU. Particularly, the upstairs apartment/duplex on Troup Street, across from the TV station. The one with the unusually short screen door that Aaron would bash his head on every damn weekend. That was the summer of… 2000, I believe.
Of course, this same spring breeze also reminds me of sitting on the porch swing of my efficiency apartment back in 1999; or laying on the top bunk of a borrowed futon-loft in the room I rented in 1998, at 2am with the window open. Spring, to me, smells like standing alone, feeling grown-up, being responsible, but without feeling the weight that true responsibility carries.
Someday, when different memories are fresh in my mind, maybe spring will smell like something else to me — gardening, or travelling, or having the kids home from school. That’s a long way off, though.
The smell of spring makes me feel alive, like something new and different is around the corner, and I’m not quite sure why. Maybe it’s because I prefer warm spring weather over the cold of winter, or because spring means the daylight hours are longer, or because spring meant the end of school for so many of my formative years. Or maybe it’s simply because the greenery finally makes its appearance.
At any rate, this 60-plus-degree weather is fantastic… even though I know it won’t last the week.
For anyone who’s been interested in what my freelance gig is and how it’s turning out, I thought I’d share with you the HTML mock-up I’ve created for my client. They chose this design out of over half a dozen Photoshop composites, and I spent this week creating a stylesheet that I can plug their content into. After I do that, there will be some content-management issues to tackle and some bells and whistles to add.
So, there you have it: the midpoint of my freelance project. I think it’s some of my better work, IMHO.