Outside My Window ~ 6.10.2012

Outside my window…was a bright, sunshiny day…..blue skies, not a cloud in sight but as I look out now, looks like storm clouds may be building.  At almost 4:00 in the afternoon, we are at 88°F with a little over 40% humidity….not very high for this region.  I’m not sure if the clouds will amount to anything, the forecast calls for partly cloudy.  I have seen it pour rain…for a very long time…when there was only a 30% chance of rain however.  This weekend has been considerably warmer than our past week was.  We had lots of rain at the beginning of the week and then mild temperatures….it was very nice out actually.  The week ahead will bring us a bit warmer temperatures than last week and another chance for rain by Tuesday or Wednesday.  I love summer rain showers….even summer storms as long as  they don’t  present themselves as the beginning of the apocalypse and I’m not a fan of wild and wicked lightening….I still love the scent and the sounds ~ hypnotic!

I am thinking about…my baby girls big day was yesterday….she graduated from high school.  For me, today has been spent with the many memories that have come flooding back as a result.  In the span of two months, she has turned eighteen and graduated from high school.  The bird cage door has sprung open, and mama can’t snap it close any longer. I am not alone with the realization that she has begun a new chapter in her life either.  Yesterday afternoon she made the comment that she may never see some of the people she went to school with ever again….and I could tell she was trying to wrap her head around that reality.  I can remember the feeling….kind of scary and exciting all at the same time.

I am glad…that I don’t have to deal with the local school system any longer.  I have all the respect in the world for teachers and no major complaints about them….but the administration left a lot to be desired as far as I was concerned.

I am going…to check into the cost of putting ceramic tile down on my kitchen floor this summer.  That may be as far as I get….but it is a small kitchen so it may be something I can do.  I have surprised myself before.  🙂

I am hearing…the ticking of my many clocks….the ticking of the keys beneath my fingers….Harry Potter Deathly Hollows Part I via DVD on television….otherwise, the house is quiet….both of the girls have gone to the beach.  Their father is staying in Virginia Beach for a few days before flying home to Colorado.

A recap of last week…featured the new monthly desktop calendars and a photograph from yesterday.  🙂

Plans for the week include…working from home this Tuesday…..taking portraits of my daughters with their father {who had flown in for his daughter’s graduation}….continuing the quest to free up space on the external hard drives.  I thought I had one of them down considerably and was disappointed when the total storage amount had barely dropped….and then I discovered files within files within files.  I’m seriously questioning what was I thinking when I did that ~ obviously not thinking ~ but it was a bit defeating when I realized how much more I had to do.  Good news is I’m pretty sure once I’m done with that, there is going to be a lot more room on that particular drive.  Bad news, I bet I did it on the other one too.  😐  And finally….finally….getting out the announcements this week.  It was decided at the last moment that she wanted to include an image in her cap and gown while holding her diploma.

One of life’s little pleasures…seeing the excited face of your daughter after she has received her diploma and made the walk across that stage during her high school graduation.  Priceless!

From my camera…I put this on Facebook yesterday morning for my baby girl ~ not all of you are on Facebook so I wanted to share it here today so you could see as well.  This is an image from her senior session that I did for her.  It took some  work to get our schedules together, but when we did, we had fun doing it.  She makes me proud….every. single. day.