!Viva La Color!

So, I don't know how everyone out there in the intraweb feels, but man, I am READY for spring!  I am SO tired of my winter jacket and snow boots!  As I said in "Time Keeps on Slipping," we went up into the Alps for this past weekend, and I played around with my camera.  What I found, besides an amazing waterfall, was proof - SPRING IS COMING!  I promise!

I have no idea what this is, but it's some kind of
tuber flower, and it was trying SO hard to bloom!

We all know that I get distracted.  A lot.  That's ok, though.  My distractions are my inspiration!  My distractions are my subjects!  I have learned to embrace my inability to focus on the end task!

Even better than finding random flowers trying to bloom?
Finding ones familiar to you!  Heather is in bloom all
over the Alps, it was beautiful!  Purple hillsides everywhere!

There is an end in sight people, I promise!  The mountains are coming alive again!  The birds have started to come back, and the flowers are starting to bloom!  Color is coming back into my world - WOOHOO!!!  I am so tired of scenes that are so dreary, you honestly can not tell if they are black and white portraits are not!  Viva la color!

So, how do you know spring is on its way wherever you live?  What tells you it's time to put up the snow gear, and start planting?  Please, leave a comment, share the page, subscribe - I would love to hear from you!

Time Keeps on Slipping........

So, our time in Europe is drawing to a close, and sadly so are my travels.  I can't believe that it has been over 3 1/2 years since we arrived here.  It seems like yesterday we arrived at the airport, a seven year old, a three month old and two dogs in tow!  We have tried to make the most of our time here, we have seen so much than I ever imagined we would!  Sadly though, our fun and carefree travel is giving way to financial responsibility, and I HATE it!  Not the being responsible part, just the no more fun trips part!  I can't wait to get back to the states, and start exploring with my kids, and show them their country, now that they have seen so much of the world, it seems kind of backwards to begin exploring our own backyard now!  BUT I won't let you down just yet!  

This past weekend, we were fortunate enough to be able to visit Garmisch one last time.  The weather was a bit hazy, so we didn't go up the Zugspitze, we did do some fun rock climbing around a great little waterfall we found in Austria.  Definitely good enough!  

I loved this waterfall - winter is hanging on so hard around here, and spring keeps poking her head around the corner just enough to keep you hopeful.  I loved the play here of the frozen falls, with the running falls adjacent.  This is a great roadside waterfall - the falls are less than a kilometer's walk from the road!

I really do love my family, they all indulge me and my photography.  I love destination trips, don't get me wrong - however, most of the time, I love the journey just as much!  So many times I have found amazing things right near the road, and they are often overlooked by others who are "just trying to get there."  Don't let the destination blind you from the journey!

So, what do you think?  Please, leave a comment, subscribe, share this - but I would love to hear from you in any way!  Where are your favorite roadside distractions?

Never Letting the Grass Grow

So - my husband is gone a lot.  It sucks.  Sadly, I am also used to it.  That is ok, though - we work with what we are given, and thankful for what we have.  In the meantime, we don't let the grass grow, we don't sit and complain that he's gone (well, ok, maybe a little bit), we don't hide out in the basement, avoiding the world.  We get out and see the world!  I am good with distraction, whether it's intentional or not, and for me these days, traveling is a great distraction to 1/4 of my little family, and 1/2 my heart being missing.

So, for the end of June, our trip we took was to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. We only went for a couple of days, and I bored my kids to death with hikes and nature, but, well that is me, I reluctantly admit to being a little bit Granola.

 

Don't they look tortured. . .

 

Wait - you mean not everyone elses kids try to make themselves look like Master Yoda in almost EVERY family picture?  SERIOUSLY?  

Yes. Don't we all look miserable? (NOT)  While we may be missing an integral piece, we are still moving forward, and still making the most of what we have.  To waste the opportunities we have to travel and see the world while we are living abroad would be a sin.

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