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Got some information that might be of interest to some of you. I just heard from my mother in law that the Saguaro are blooming in the Phoenix area right now. If you’re heading that way you might want to check it out. I’d go if I could. But I can’t make it at this time.
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You guys know what life has been like for me over the last year. With dad’s death in September and then loosing Tammy in March, I’ve had a hell of a ride. Not a day goes by that I’m not having some sort of emotional moment. But through all of this I’ve learned a lot about myself and about the life I’ve created for myself. This weekend I think I learned the most important lesson so far.
Life is much to fragile to live it with black spots on your soul.
Let me explain.
When Tammy and I first met I was in a 14 year relationship with someone else. We were having many problems and the relationship was slowly coming to an end. Meeting Tammy sped the end up. The final breakup was not good and it got pretty ugly. Well I hadn’t seen or talked to her in the four years that I had Tammy in my life. During that four years I had thought about getting in touch with her, Tammy and I had even talked about it. But I was to afraid and didn’t do it. On Saturday she was at Twin Lakes for dad’s ceremony. I’m so glad she was there. We were able to spend some time together and I believe that we were able to heal the wounds that we had created four years earlier. I feel that a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders and the black spot that was on my soul has been replaced with a new light. I hope that we can now have a long friendship and be able to spend some time together again doing some of the things that we loved to do together.
So, if any of you are to afraid to come to terms with a black spot on your soul, think about my dad, Tammy and me. Before we knew what hit them, it was to late to do anything about it and they were gone. I know that it’s a cliché to say “Live every day like it’s your last” but who knows, it could be your last day. And even worse, it could be the last day of the person who you are holding a grudge against. And then you have to live the rest of your life knowing that there was that ugly black spot on both of your souls. So if you have a situation like that, call them, tell them you’re sorry and then get together with them and give each other a huge hug. Trust me, it works wonders. I found that out on Saturday.
And by the way guys, have I told you lately how much I love having all of you as friends. Thanks for being here for me through all of the years I’ve ran this site, and especially for the last 16 months.
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Well, Opening Day 2007 is over, and most of the fishermen have gone home with or without fish. As for me and my family, well…..
We went up to Twin Lakes outside of Bridgeport. I got one, my cousin got one, and my brother got four. They were all nice fish though. All were over a pound. I don’t know how the opener went all around. I will know more on Tuesday when the paper comes out. It seemed like most people had fish up at Twin Lakes
Yesterday was more than the opening of fishing for my family though. Yesterday we put my dad’s ashes where they belong, Twin Lakes. Along the shore of the lower twin we had a nice little ceremony and released his ashes. Twin Lakes was his favorite place in the world and it’s where he wanted his ashes placed. We thought that opening day was the best day to do it. It was a wonderful experience. We each took a scoop of his ashes and released them were we wanted to. I put mine along the base of a young Jeffery Pine where they can be drawn into the tree. As long as that tree stands, part of dad will live on.
So this opening day was a very special on e to me. It will always be remembered.
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Drove out to Brockman Ln this afternoon and the iris are in bloom now. There aren’t a lot just yet, but things have started. This week and next weekend should be a great time for shooting them. There are also iris blooming in the fields off of Line St. Can’t tell you about Round Valley. I was through there yesterday, but was to tired from fishing and didn’t even think to look at the fields. I’ll get out that way in a day or two and let you know.
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Many of you may have wondered where the Visions of the Sierra Gallery went. I decided to take it off line because keeping up two galleries was a little to much work. Also it was competing with SierraVisionsStock and taking hits away from there. Since taking Visions off line SierraVisionsStock has seen many more daily hits and I’ve even made a few sales 
So I feel it was a good move on my part.
But I’m now going to let you in on a little secret I’ve been keeping from you guys. Visions of the Sierra isn’t dead, it has evolved into a Photoblog. I put the Visions of the Sierra Photoblog up a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to get the photoblog community to notice it. They have to a limited extent. I haven’t told you guys about it until now, because I wanted to get more images up on the blog. I try to update it on a daily basis. It’s not that much work to add just one new image a day.
I’m not going to put a link up to it on SierraVisions because I don’t want it to compete with SierraVisionsStock. So for this one time only I will give you guys the address and you can save it to your bookmarks or better yet, join the RSS feed, then you can know if there are updates without first going to the site.
Most of the images you have seen before. But I’m also putting up different versions of the older images. I’ve been playing around with a lot of the older images in photoshop and it’s these that I’m posting to the blog. And the other thing is that the images are larger, 720 pixels wide, so they look really nice. You can also leave comments about the images.
The address is http://visions.sierravisionsstock.com
It’s kind of fun showing off my images in a whole new way and to a whole new group of people.
Let me know what you think about it.
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