Pink! 3/52

This picture was taken from my deck on the 24Th of Jan... Right now it is snowing and the flakes caught the flash of the camera...Leaving small white flecks on the picture... The sky naturally looked a pink color which is why I took the pictureincorporating our theme of Pink! I exaggerated the picture's color by editing it... It is a very cold and calm night with the snow silently falling on the trees and its surroundings...Perhaps the same snow a couple of years ago may have fallen similar in Alaska...and Bridge and I would have only been miles apart instead of oceans apart :( ...JJ















I had no rhyme or reason for picking pink, I just thought it was a happy idea for this week. I am really enjoying seeing the way we both take the ideas. I look forward to next week. Oh This is an upclose picture of the flowers Ryon got me for our Anniversary. This was taken Jan 17th!

~Bridgette

Sun 2/52

It is a little difficult right now to do this with that this week is all overcast,rainy and down right gloomy but I took the most recent sunset I have which is in Dec of 08. It is taken behind my house, now that the leaves are all gone off the trees you can see the lake quite clearly. I really loved this shot. But I do say sorry about the age of it. I know we wanted to post ones that So myself and Jen agreed that was close enough. =)I found this wonderful poem on an awesome blog called IT"s JUST HOW I SEE THINGS. It is here on blogspot and you can get to it by going to my favorites on my personal blog. I think her sister wrote it or a friend. I just loved it!!! It makes you just realize that no matter how long it has been since you have seen each other, or spoke. The distance might be feeling farther than ever. But you still can experience one thing together everyday. You see the same sun, the same moon and stars. They are all bigger than we are. So hopefully that will always make us feel tied together.


We may not
be able to see
the same
sunset,


But we
get to see
the same
sun
set.

– Angela Heldman











Sunset taken on the Las Vegas Strip 2007.

I chose sunsets for a particular reason. To me sunsets are symbolically Bittersweet. They are the beginning of the night and darkness that soon follows and gradually shifts into a new day. A new start. A clean slate. When a day is long and overwhelming a sunset means the pain and suffering will perhaps come to a conclusion. A sunset means things may not always follow you into the next day. Negative things in your life may be able to rest when the sun does. You clench on to hope and dreams of tomorrow with all of your might and when that sunsets you hope when it comes back up... so does your faith, your luck, your spirits. When tomorrow arrives things may be easier and things may be less heartbreaking. The task at hand is to then not waste energy in the promising new day with worries of yesterday. Use the new day as a start to move on and up when things are looking down...

Sunsets can mean one of the best days of your life is coming to an end. The sun is winding down to end the day and it can be saddening to end it when you are having the time of your life...Tomorrow may no way compare to the day you have now...

It is Bittersweet in the way you may be praying for a new day and that sun to set...Or the way your may be holding your breath about the present day wishing it would last forever... JJ

An Arm As A Lifeline 1/52

Human Arm As A Lifeline

Dialysis

Imagine depending on someone to place two 15g (gauge) needles into your arm that connect to 2 sets of blood lines...Run by a machine to keep you alive...IT IS your lifeline... 3x a week and 4 hrs at a time...The needles are one inch long and have a pretty hefty diameter... specially for something to be placed in the tender parts of your arm into a fistula...Which is a vein and an artery fused together by a surgeon...This particular patient is someone who agreed to let me take his picture...But also is one of the most brave patients we have...He takes his needles straight...No numbing shot first at 5:00 am in the morning...We do offer a shot of lidocaine which numbs the skin before we place these needles...Gauze is placed over the actual hole in case there is any leaking blood during treatment...Since the needle is pretty big it sometimes leaks...JJ

SCARS

I choose the human arm because it is one of the most underappreciated body parts. Think of how your lifestyle would be thrown for a loop if you did not have your arm.? I went through a period where I was pretty much useless with my right arm, I have what I like to call battle scars to prove it too. What I used to look at as horrible scars. Well now they are beauitful. PLus I am so thankful I have full use of my arm. So I wanted to catch it in a beauitful way. To show how simple and strong it looks. I hope that I did. I put some of the ones I did not choose to post here on my own blog. The way JJ choose to capture it is just another reason why I love that gal. She thought about lifesaving ways. My image was taken outside my front door, I added the necklace to give my pale arm some contrast. What will JJ choose to give us this week. Stay Tuned!!

~Bridgette~

Insight 101

Just wanted to give a little information for those of you wondering what this is about. I saw this on a friends blog that they got from someone else's blog. hahaha. Two friends each taking a picture a week with a random basic theme...you can stray it does not have to be the same object just kinda the same basic theme. Posting those pictures here with a bit of info on where we took them. That way it is one more way for us to try to stay in touch with each other. Since we both are fairly busy people and with this crappy 9hr time diffrence. I am stoked to see how this will play out. Our first "mutal" blog with pictures will be this up coming Sunday. Stayed Tuned!!!

Bridgette