you can come over to my place if you want to

last night was my photography show. my mom brought me flowers. it went pretty well - i had 20 pictures up. i sold half of them. if i do a show like that again - i think i need to have more photographs. like 50. and more small ones. and multiples of prints. but - that all takes a lot of money and investment. so, maybe that's a long-term goal. i think the truth about why i have art shows is because i like having all my friends in one place. this doesn't get to happen for me very much, but i got to have my work friends, my family, my church friends, my non-church friends, and my friends from childhood all in one place. dear lord, thank you.

so this morning i woke up to the most beautiful saturday morning that i ever could have dreamed of. i cleaned the apartment, took some clothes to the goodwill, and now i'm waiting for steve so that we can get some mexican food and wander around frick park. steve's leaving in a little more than a week or so. mostly, i just feel so glad that i got to live in the same place as him. maybe some day we'll end up in the same place again - i sure hope so. he's one of the greatest friends i'll ever have.

the last few weeks have felt like the happiest times of my life. i am so grateful for this life and the journey. it's wild, man. and i'm just so happy to be part of it. i'm always learning that i'm in control of most of how my life goes - at least my own happiness. if it's not perspective, then it's something else. and if it's something else, then you better be brave enough to change it.

wide-eyed walker

spring sprang. i feel alive again.

all the vampires walking through the valley

i planned on going to phipps this morning - i wanted to see some flowers, and sense spring - even if it wasn't wild or totally natural. but surprisingly, when i woke up, it was warm and sunny. i went to frick park and took a small walk. i took my shoes off and felt the cold, soft, cushion of grass and earth underneath me. birds were chirping and dogs were chasing deer. even though i could hear forbes avenue in the background, the relationship between man and nature felt harmonious nonetheless.

highland park

have no doubt about it, i will one day live in highland park again. it is the greatest, prettiest, most wonderful neighborhood in the city of pittsburgh and i don't think i'm just saying that because i've spent all of my life living there - except for my few years living here in bloomfield/lawrenceville. also steve's graduation pictures that i like.

i tried to remember, but i said what's a flower? you said, i still love you.

these pictures aren't very good, i don't think. i had some focusing issues. but it was the first time i saw spring this year. and came at a good time. laurie and i were walking in friendship and found a yard full of the crocuses. it was a nice surprise.

life's so sweet and so low, burried in the water, yeah, burried in the snow

went to kate's sort of cabin in the woods saturday night. it felt really good. i woke up sunday morning and took a walk. listened to some jesus songs instead of church. the first four are from the field behind the cabin. it was a pretty misty morning.


then we took a little drive and found a covered birdge, a nice little creek, and this red barn. we laughed when i tried to jump over the fence to take a picture because i'm not really good at those kinds of things. things felt really easy. the last picture is me, kate and the dog, pete.