Day 356/365

     I drove out to my mom's cabin Sunday morning/day 356 to help her with some things around the place and to let Kip get a good run in. It was a beautiful day out, a nice sunny day to make the gray dismal ones that have followed even more yucky.

     

Day 224/365

     I ended up having to work Monday night instead of having the day off as originally planned. I covered some high school sports and some early trick-or-treating, and a sad story about a family's dog who was killed by loose neighborhood dogs. I was in a weird mood after that one, but the amazing sunset managed to make up  for it a bit. 

Day 181/365

     I spent a much-needed weekend off back home in Ohio, and spent almost all of it with my family. Sunday was spent going out to my mom's cabin and then visiting a few of the wineries out in that area. It was an absolutely beautiful day outside, and it's finally starting to feel like fall!

Day 161/365

     It felt like I did nothing but drive around this past Monday/day 161. Whether it was running errands or making the drive back to Michigan; the majority of the day was spent in my car. The drive back up to Saginaw had me going through all different types of weather, (pretty much everything except for snow really), so I took a quick picture of the sky in between a steady rain shower and the sun coming back out. After that I played around with some effects just to give it a more painted feel, because I felt like it.  

Day 156/365

     Today one of my assignments was to get photos of a former Detroit Red Wings hockey player, Kris Draper, visiting the local minor league baseball stadium in Midland. While I was waiting for Draper to arrive at Dow Diamond I got to sit by the dugout and watch the Great Lakes Loons warm up and have batting practice. It was such a nice day out; it was a perfect afternoon for baseball. Unfortunately, I didn't get to stay for the game, but I'm hoping that I get assigned to cover one before this season's over. We'll see!

Day 154/365

     The weather during my drive back to Saginaw yesterday couldn't seem to make up its mind. It would be sunny one second, then part of the sky would become overcast and rain at the same time. It made for some interesting clouds, which I'm always a sucker for. 

Day 116/365

     Tonight I covered a Friday night summer concert series in downtown Saginaw, "Friday Night Live." It had some fun parts, and some hokey ones too, but I think that comes with the festival-type-thing anyways. It was a little too hot for my liking, until the sun finally started to go down and behind the clouds. 

Day 98/365

     I found it a little funny that the picture I ended up taking for today's post was quite similar to the one from yesterday, even though they were taken in different states. Today's photo is from outside the motel I'll be staying in tonight here in Saginaw. Here's hoping that I get into my apartment by tomorrow night; I don't know if I can handle another night of the bouquet of b.o. and stale cigarette smoke that my room smells like. At least I have the first day of my internship to look forward to tomorrow!

Day 94/365

     Today's post is from outside of Fairplay, Colorado. We stopped to admire the sun coming through the clouds in between our multiple stretches of driving through the Rocky Mountains. It was a pretty and uneventful drive, up until about the last two hours. Between a speeding ticket and coming within inches of slamming into an enormous elk while driving up one of the mountains, (which was completely dark since there are no street lights out here), the two of us are especially fried and ready to sleep. We're currently at our motel in Estes Park, Colorado, and will be heading over to the Stanley Hotel tomorrow morning to explore a bit before starting our first day of driving back to Ohio. I'll either update while at a gas station with wifi-access during the day tomorrow, or at whatever motel we stop at for the night. Until then! 

     Also, there's a few new updates to my Flickr page as well!

Day 91/365

     I tried some night shooting for the first time on this trip. This is the nighttime sky as seen from our campsite at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. We're pretty exhausted; the temperature got up to 113° while we were exploring around in Death Valley National Park in Nevada this morning, so by the time we got to our site here we set up our tent and laid low the rest of the day. Tomorrow we'll go check out more of Bryce Canyon before heading out to the Grand Canyon where we'll be camping the next two nights! I'll update whenever I get the chance, but in the meantime I added a few photos to my Flickr page if any of you are interested.