2/5/11

This day it snowed and I thought the view from my window was pretty since the tree was lightly dusted. I love snow when it's not all gross and brown and half melty.

2/6/11

Anna and Emily did some finger painting while I was doing a bunch of homework one night and this was one of the pictures Anna did. It apparently is her rendition of Starry Night. I am quite impressed. 

2/7/11

Forgot a picture - I had a busy day. :(

2/8/11

My empty Starbucks doubleshot...I love ordering it, not just because it's a great way to perk up, but I genuinely love the challenge of knocking back all that bitter espresso. In a weird way, I really like the taste.

2/9/11

I saw this on my way to class and thought it was cool. OSU pride!

2/10/11

A view the of McCracken Power Plant behind a campus building. The two stacks are always smoking, which is probably a pretty bad sign, but I just thought the huge billows of white smoke that day were pretty against the bright blue sky.

2/11/11

Home for the weekend! I took this within the first five minutes of getting home...this is how Isabel was looking at me as I came in the living room. She looks psychotic. She's so strange, haha.

2/12/11

I have a bunch of duck pictures like this from Saturday. My mom and I went hiking at the local Towpath trailhead that morning and as usual, there were hordes of hungry ducks. At this point, the ducks had just started to sort of chase me in pursuit of food as I walked down the path. There is one in the very back of the crowd in the middle of taking off for flight if you really look. Ducks are just so silly!

I feel silly for not knowing the name of this river, but I know it is runs from the Long Lake Channel near Portage Lakes. Mom and I ventured off the path in Mesopotamia (the named area of the towpath we were hiking on) and found a relatively new bridge back in the woods that went over the water. It's actually really pretty back there.

2/13/11

My Dad and I went to Firestone Metro Park and took a hike Sunday, as well (two snowy hikes in one weekend for me!). Firestone is known for having chickadees that are basically trained by the public to feed out of hands if you bring seed - so of course, we always do. And they are always hungry! I caught this picture of a chickadee on my dad's hand.

All the ones I got sitting in my own hand turned out kind of blurry, but it still is cool. I love the feeling of the little birds sitting there because they sort of grip your hand with their little clawed feet and you feel them peck at your hand to get the seed. They are so cute!

I love this photo! Solitary chickadee on a bare branch against winter skies.

2/14/11

Happy Valentine's Day! Walking back from my shift at work at sunset, the sky was an appropriate shade of pinkish purple, with the moon peeking out in the top right corner. Pretty.

2/15/11

I know I've done this before, and it's not the most interesting picture, but I worked a double shift this day and I was out of time and inspiration. Also, Emily gave me a pretty pinkish-gold eyeshadow (E.L.F. "Trendy") for V-Day the day before,so I tried it out and am wearing it here (along with some colors from a "Time for Wine" palette by Maybelline).

2/16/11

I love jetstreams. And sky pictures...but I think you already knew the latter. :)

2/17/11

I wish it was possible to capture the true weather on a day through a picture, but I couldn't. But today was GORGEOUS. I wore capris and sometimes took off my jacket while I was walking. It was mostly sunny and crazy windy; I think it got up to the mid-60s. I wish it could just be spring now. This is one of the wind direction indicators near the towers on campus. I actually walked all the way to Ag Campus (25 minute walk - I usually take the bus) and the wind indicators were all swinging around like crazy from the gusts, but of course you can't really tell.

Not sure what this is...but I found it while taking a rest on a bench outside this evening. I thought it looked like a heart, though, and the texture was cool, so I took a picture.

1/22/11

This is my little Hotei figurine I keep on my TV stand. Hotei is the God of Happiness in Buddhism. I've always been drawn to figurines of him and my mother gave me this before I left for college. The other day I dropped him and his hand broke, though (laying next to him). :( Emily did a sweet thing and fixed him with superglue, though, so he is good as new and inspiring me to be happy again (cheesy, I know).

1/23/11

This was a cool looking snowdrift I found at sunset. I like the perspective on this photo and how blue the evening sky is.

1/24/11

Emily got a new fish to replace the now deceased Grumpy. He had been sick for weeks so she just decided to humanely put him out of his misery. RIP Grumps. :( On the bright side, her new fish, State Farm a.k.a. Toothless (the former inspired by our friend Anna - long story - and the latter inspired from How to Train  Your Dragon) is super cute. He nibbles your finger if you stick it in the water and he's super feisty. We like him a lot. :)

1/25/11

These are my new inspirational quotes I put above my desk so I can stop being distracted while I study :) The top is "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" from Confucius and the bottom is "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing" from Walt Disney.

1/26/11

I was walking through the oval about midday and it kind of hit me how many people really do go to OSU. There were so many students walking through the oval on all the different pathways and they often formed little single-file lines in different directions - like the pathway jutting off to the right of the picture.

1/27/11

Toothless/State Farm's tank again - this was his huge bubble nest he made! (And you can see him in the left of the photo) Emily cleaned the water and got rid of the nest a few days later and he already has made another one almost the same size. He's quite a happy fish.

1/28/11

Mmmm - Insomnia Cookies.  They deliver fresh and warm to your dorm on campus - at any hour. It's our favorite late night snack (these were Zack and I's leftovers when he came to visit this past weekend :).)

1/29/11

Zack and I went to have a belated anniversary (2 and a half years!) dinner at my former place of work, Sloopy's Diner. One of our favorite meals is brinner (breakfast for dinner), so that's exactly what we got. Yum.

1/30/11

One of my favorite fruits. A good late night study snack. And I also thought a close up looked pretty cool.

1/31/11

This is Emily and I's new dorm decoration - matching roomie key and wallet hooks. We even wrote our names on them and decorated them. Mine is on the right. Aren't we just precious? :)

2/1/11

We had a huge ice storm the previous night. We were all sure classes would be cancelled, but of course, OSU is too tough to let that happen - they just dumped loads of salt on the sidewalks and had us carry on. Oh well, I got some really great ice pictures out of it! Above is ice-encrusted grass.

A view of the trees outside of my dorm - they all looked silvery because of the ice coating. The picture doesn't do it justice though!

A little red bush covered in ice.

2/2/11

I didn't mean for the camera to flash and make his eyes all red but I couldn't resist - his mouth is open as he eats his little fruit! Isn't he adorable?

2/3/11

A sheet of ice glistening in the afternoon sunshine.

Pretty twilight on the icey pathways.