Day 74/365

     My day today was spent in my car for the most part. My mom and I drove up to Saginaw, Michigan, (where I'll be starting a photojournalism internship at the end of June), to sign my leasing paperwork for my apartment. I also got a chance to meet my boss and most everyone else I'll be working with. My landlord and boss/coworkers/fellow interns all seem really great, so I'm feeling better and better about my move to Michigan in a few weeks. It's nice to actually be looking forward to working; I've never felt excited or happy about any jobs I've worked before. It's definitely something I could get used to!

Day 73/365

     I was having one of those existential/philosophical "deeper meaning" kind-of days, and decided to go out and look for a photo opportunity that could have a deeper premise to it as well. My answer was a drainage ditch/creek. Even though I would never step foot in that water, I thought it was a really beautiful area, despite its functional purpose. The mundane and the ordinary can be interesting at times if you have the right outlook.

Day 72/365

     Sorry; I know today's post is slightly late, but I did take the actual image on Tuesday so I say it still counts! I went to my first Cleveland Indians game of the season today, and, despite them losing terribly, had a great time. Some of my favorite childhood memories were from going to baseball games with my dad. My mom and brother have never really been baseball fans, so going to a few games each summer was something my dad and I did just the two of us, and it's probably one of the things I miss most about him. I was probably six or seven years old the first time I went to a Tribe game, and I was instantly hooked. My favorite player at the time was Sandy Alomar Jr. and I think I'll always have a soft spot for him; it definitely made me happy when I heard he was coming back to Cleveland as a base/bench coach a few years back. I firmly believe that baseball season is the best season!

Day 71/365

     I stayed out at my mom's cabin last night after the cookout we had yesterday for Memorial Day weekend. As I was driving back this morning, I decided to go down a different route home and ended up pulling over to take a picture of these cows. Happy Memorial Day!

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 69/365

     I went over to my aunt's today to help with some yard work. We were all weeding and spreading around leaf humus and we kept seeing tons of dragonflies everywhere. I stopped to take this picture of one that happened to land on the edge of one of the raised beds in my aunt's vegetable garden. It was a bit camera-shy; it would fly away the first couple times I tried to focus in on it, but I got it eventually!

Day 68/365

     For today's post I stopped at Wildwood Manor again and put together a small panoramic of the woods on the property. It got really humid and hot pretty quickly today, but under those trees you'd think it was a typical breezy spring day.

Day 67/365

     I didn't have much time to shoot today, so I ended up taking a quick picture of my mom's potted hydrangeas. I have some shoot ideas for the next coming week, so my posts should be picking up here soon!

Day 66/365

     Finch supervised the yard work we did tonight via my bedroom window. He's the definition of helpful.

Day 65/365

     Today's post is right out of one of my mom's gardens. She has quite a few different types of irises that grow throughout the backyard, but these dark purple ones have always been my favorite.