Palouse Falls/Inchelium

In Inchelium, part of the Nez Perce Reservation. This is from B's family's resort. I took this picture the last day while we were up there. This is mating grounds for bald eagles, and Loons! :) My favorite part of this picture: A) the reflection of the clouds on the water.
B) The feeling of relief and regret because we were leaving. His family is *very* enjoyable, and the feeling of getting away is addictive.







This was taken on the way OUT of Palouse Falls-We were out in Farming Country, and I HAD to take this picture. I was reminded of Windows Vista! but it's not. It's Stephanie Vista.











This is a front view of Palouse Falls. I have very good memories of this place: I walked with my Sensei and my mentors to that waterfall, and learned the meaning of tact, growing up, and thinking for myself. I learned the importance of friends, made mistakes, thought about love, dreamed about heaven. This place has always had memories, and continues to be a great place for me to go, and just let go. At this place, I feel forgiven. More forgiven than anywhere else. Here, I can let go.






Palouse Falls from the front, near the basin. Can you imagine the beauty? I'm going back in a few weeks, hopefully I can hike to the falls this time.

Crucial Cos-Play

In light on the recent conversation I had with a friend about the hotness of twileks, I decided that it was crucial for me to find goooood cosplay pictures. Lo and behold, B had this one from when he was at C4 in LA, last year. Yes, breathe it in, gentlemen and ladies. HOTNESS UNLEASHED. My favorite part of this picture: Not only hearing first hand accounts about how sweet this girl is from B, but then going online and hearing from several other sources that this girl is rediculously sweet. I think this is Summer-Summer, if you see this, correct me if I got your name wrong. Also-Kudos for the costume. XD








I couldn't NOT put this up: As I said before, I was looking up Cosplay stuff, and found *this* and Trina, my best friend and MS playing confidante, is OBSESSED with Hello Kitty. A stumble and a text later, lets hope she got some epic laughs out of this. My favorite thing about this picture: WHERE TO BEGIN? Lets start with the model. I bet she's wondering if her career just died painfully, or in it's sleep? And I want to meet the designer, shake their hand, and then slap them across the face. Some people just don't get fashion. tsk, tsk. I bet the person who created this threw up after drinking a lot of alcohol, and said: "My vomit looks like hello kitty....waaaaaaiiiiit a minuuuuuuttteeeee......" FAIL.










AUGH!!! *ahem* Sorry, thats just the way I react whenever I see the HIDEOUSNESS OF THIS PICTURE. It's totally creepy. The poor woman looks like a vampire gone horrible south, OR a creepy porcelian doll. Also, I want to know how many car seats were dismantled for the making of that coat. Seriously. NO. SERIOUSLY. "How much do clothes cost in the Matrix?"














I would totally wear it. If for no other reason than to walk into work in the middle of winter, and say, "MAN, I had to wear a *turtleneck* to work, it was so cold." AWESOME, WRAPPED IN WIN.

As a personal side note, I got a Chevy Cobalt today, pictures will be up. But thats not what I'm most excited about. I got a picture of a mannequin in a scooter at a medical supplies store. I am *psyched* to share it.

Ma NA Nuh NAH!

*Ahem* OH, if I could caption this, I would so say "Spaghetti-Monsterism 'Touched By His Noodly Appendage.'" A lot of my favorite shots are from this green house-the vibrant colors and the smells were just...AWESOME. But most of all I remember making B hold that pose for like....5 minutes. I kept faking that there were problems *just* so he would stay like that. I don't think he knew that until just now. Eh....heh.....sorry B.

I believe this is called a banana cactus-but I still think it's a Spaghetti Monster. I didn't even notice this thing until I was standing, like, underneath it. I liked the cool colors that brought out the cactus more, but mostly, I liked how the natural light hit every bit of it, bringing out each little....arm?.....appendage?.....thing.

SQUIRREL! I LOOOOOVE Squirrels. This particular squirrel is particularly obese AND tame. He let me get rediculously close to him, and then climbed, upside-down, up the tree. My favorite part of this? the memory of nearly peeing myself. He looked right at me and then flew towards me-I squeaked loudly, to be sure. Poor B almost had a heart attack. XD It was kinda cold out that day, but the snow was super crunchy, so I stayed off of it.

These viney/cact-arms are so AWESOME to look at! At first glance, it seems like it's braided-in reality, it's a cactus, and it's tons of little buds. I don't know the name of this plant, (surprise, surprise) but this is one of my favorite pictures because of the angle. I remember that this particular plant caught my attention almost immediately. I had to touch it, and look underneath it, and squint at it, and then I decided it *had* to be photographed. *had* to. Favorite thing about this shot? The natural light, of course! I love the way the sun hits the planty-goodness. Ah, Sun. How EPIC, you are.

I *love* this shot, and I've saved it for last because it was a hidden gem in a hidden folder that I stumbled upon (in my desktop

....because...hehe....

you know...

the stumbling....

but on a desktop

.....oh nevermind) Where to begin? FIRST OFF, it took some looking to get this shot. I passed this patch of flowers probably 5 or 6 times, easily, and then the sun kinda slipped past it to touch some dark red flowers right below it-and then I saw them. I immediately knew my shot-it's almost like that greenhouse felt me coming. The ivy grew all around that area, but not on that one spot. it gave me the perfect view-and I wanted to capture both the white flowers, AND those gorgeous pink hyacinths (GASP-I knew that one....no, I didn't, B muttered it as he went by) were so soft and demure in the background, they *begged* a picture to be snapped in their honor.

*Yawn* thats, about all.

Colville, Flowers, and Scenery

Good morning! XD I uploaded a few of my favorite pictures from traveling, and even one from being home. 

This particular one is from home, actually. It started hailing, thundering, raining, snowing, and then the sun started to set-all within about a 5 minute window of time. One of the sayings here in Eastern Washington/North Idaho is: "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes." It was incredibly true. So, this incorporates most of those elements-except that what you see on the ground here isn't snow-it's all hail. Pea sized, for the most part.

This was taken on the way back from Colville-I believe it was last month. I looove taking pictures of this mountain, especially during storms. In fact, you might say I have a think for storms in general. It feels cleansing, (I guess it kinda is) but I like to look at it as giving the world a fresh start. I like fresh starts.

THIS was taken directly after a snowstorm at B's parents house in Colville. Those lucky ducks have access to some FINE scenery, and I can't resist snapping a ton of pictures. I like the clouds-and I like how clearly they came out! I also like how fresh and clear the whole look was.

This bloomed right after we got into town-again, I can't remember the name of it-but if you know the names of any of the flowers, lemme know. I'll update my posts, *and* give you proper credit for them. Everyone tells me what they are, but I just don't have patience to commit things to memory. In any case, I *love* the brilliant warm orange of this flower, and the blue center. I remember just thinking, "man, God, you really go all out on these things! It's just a flower, and yet, it has the ability to capture the attention and admiration of anyone that sees it!" God really has an awesome imagination!

That's about all I have, as far as epic photos for today. I have a ton more, but I'm pacing myself. XD

My First Post

Hi. My name is Stephanie. Through an interesting turn of events, I got an iPhone. My iPhone is AMAZING, but the thing I love about it the most is my ability to take some pretty awesome pictures. It's not the *best* quality in the world, but it's better than any other camera I've had-and I'm simple, and easy to please.

Enough about me, let's talk about my EPIC vision. I plan on updating my blog with cool pictures of places I go, and things I see that strike me as cool, unusual, or soothing. Whatever. If it catches my eye, it's ensnared by the phone, and uploaded to this little blog o mine. XD

My first picture is cool to me because of the different pottery colors, and the cool symmetry. Not only that, but it invokes good memories. B and I (B is my boyfriend) went to a Home Improvement store, not sure which one, and decided we needed some plant children. It's lonely not having kids, and I still hadn't sold him on a pet yet-I remember I was leaning towards a puppy. We had sooo much fun picking out the different pottery, talking about what would look best, and plans we had for our front yard in the future. It smelled pretty heavily of fresh dirt and wet cement. I love it when pictures help bring back fragrances. The best part? Going home afterwards and putting the plants in their new homes. It was a blast. AND it was cheap. Can't beat cheap.

  This is my newly acquired family member-plant babies only go so far. His name is Stitch, although he responds best to "Meow Meow," or "Hey Buddy." He's a beautiful cat, and very excited about life. In this picture, he saw me moving the mouse on my keyboard, and after repeatedly laying ON the keyboard of my poor laptop, I finally had to set him behind it. He stared intently, hoping for some sign of his new "mouse" friend. I picked this shot for two reasons: A-well, I can't leave you hanging after saying I was lobbying for a pet. B- he has beautiful fur, AND I like how crisp the image of the plants were in the background. After using crap cameras before this, (not to say this is the best camera out there or anything) the definition and the lighting never fail to amaze me.

Ah, aren't they beautiful?  Taken at Manito Parks Greenhouse, in Eastern Washington, These li'l beauties were growing EVERYWHERE, and I fell in love with them! Not complex, not ridiculously rare-which makes it awesome. Why? Ah, psychologically speaking, I'm drawn to simple, normal things in life. Not everyone can be above average, or below average-thats why a vast majority of us are average. And I think, that as a pseudo-average individual, it's good to celebrate averagosity! And yes, that is a new word.

Thus concludes my first post. I know, the pictures aren't super fantastic, BUT, I have many good ones up my sleeve. AND, each new day brings a new adventure, a new reason to take a picture, and one more to post on my new delightful hobby-meh blog. XD XD XD <----those are smiley faces.

Thanks. XD

SDP