Day 284/365

     One of my assignments on Friday/day 284 was to get some photos of some of the migratory birds in the Saginaw area. One of our editors noticed a lot of them at a park nearby, so I went out and saw literally hundreds of Canada geese and a few dozen gulls walking around on the ice and in the few open patches of water. It was such a bitter cold day, I wouldn't have wanted to spend it here if I were them. 

Day 244/365

     Today I took Kip to a local park where he got to see the lake for the first time. He. Loved. It. Out of all the dogs my family's had, none of them have been water dogs. To say I was excited to see that Kip seems to love water is a major understatement. Next summer should be interesting. 

Day 220/365

      Tonight I covered my first swim meet, and while it didn't frustrate me as much as shooting volleyball does, it wasn't all that far off. Something else to work on!

Day 217/365

     Today was a super quiet one work-wise, although I was officially offered an extension on my internship, so I will be in Saginaw until June! It's a big relief. I love my job and I work with some great people, so I'm really glad I get to stay longer. 

     Anyways, before I was on shift, I took Kip for a walk around the apartment complex and took a quick photo of the steadily-growing ground covering of leaves. Quite a few are still hanging in there on the trees, and have started turning this fantastic golden color; it's quite pretty. Today was mostly sunny, until right before our walk it let loose for about fifteen minutes and then abruptly stopped, leaving huge puddles on the easily-flooded sidewalks by my building. 

Day 213/365

     Thursday I hit the ground running in order to make up for missing work on Wednesday. My first assignment was a food giveaway first thing in the morning in the Bay City area. It was the first food giveaway/food drive that I've covered where everything that was donated and being given away was fresh produce; it was nice to see nutritious and wholesome foods being given to those in need for a change. It was also raining pretty steadily, and I thought the weather had a nice aesthetically-pleasing effect on this flat of tomatoes. 

Day 209/365

     The rain did let up a little bit on Sunday/yesterday/day 209, but you wouldn't have known it with the way the parking lots in my apartment complex like to flood. The wet leaves  on the trees did make some nice ripple effects in the puddles *cough* lakes *cough* though. 

Day 144/365

     It's been consistently raining all day today in Saginaw. Some side roads have started to flood, and Bay City is experiencing some major flooding throughout the area. Since rain was the main topic of discussion almost anywhere you'd go, I was assigned the task of going out and taking rain pictures. I'm a sucker for ripples and the overlapping designs they make, so this photo for today's entry was my favorite from my rain-soaked adventures today.

Day 127/365

     Time to play some catchup. Things got a bit crazy yesterday and today, so I didn't get a chance to update until now. Yesterday afternoon was fantastic; I got to cover a story that a journalism intern was doing on a man who's started to offer kayak rentals at a park near Bay City. I literally got paid to go kayaking and taking pictures all of yesterday afternoon. It was the perfect day for it too: sunny but not too hot, with a great breeze on Saginaw Bay where we were kayaking. We saw tons of wildlife too: herons, egrets, turtles, loons, to name a few. It was definitely one of those days where I was reminded of just how much I absolutely love my job. 

Day 92/365

     Day ninety-two's belated post comes to you from Glen Canyon National Park, right on the border between Utah and Arizona. We were on our way to the Grand Canyon after leaving Bryce Canyon on Monday morning when we saw signs for Lone Rock, and then saw the lake it was sitting in from the main road we were on. It looked so beautiful we decided to stop and check it out, (not to mention that seeing such blue water in the middle of the desert was a welcome change of scenery). We walked down to what we now know was Lake Powell and waded in to take some pictures of Lone Rock. It was a nice little reprieve from the drive. 

Day 81/365

     Today completely consisted of yard work and packing for my road trip out west that I leave for in a few days. In between that, I made macaroni and cheese, and took a picture of the bubbles when the water started to boil. Voila. 

Day 70/365

     Today's post is a video taken during a boat ride on the Grand River. My mom had some of her friends out to her cabin for a Memorial Day weekend cookout, and some of us went out on a pontoon boat for a bit down the river. At one point we had a short downpour of rain, so I made a video mashup of the ripples made from the rain hitting the river. 

Day 50/365

     The weather couldn't seem to make up its mind at all today. It started out cool and cloudy this morning, then stormed a bit, and then alternated between sun and storm clouds for the rest of the day. I got caught in one of the mini storms on my way home from running errands, and liked how the water droplets looked on my car's window. I'm also a sucker for the bokeh effect so that was just an added bonus!