Hello :)
The weather's been gorgeous lately. When I stepped outside, the sunrise was AMAZING. Here's a photo that I took of it:

You can kinda see a cherryblossom tree on the right side, except it looks all weird and dark o.o

Also, it's perfect weather for shadow-photography.

 

Please ignore my annoying feet in this picture. X3

Also, apparently we're leaving for Kentucky in 2 days, so I probably won't be posting too much. But who knows- I might be able to make a quick post on my phone at the airport!

Mom says that we have to start packing frantically today, as we don't have anything packed yet, oops.

Well, Ciao!

~Edwing 

P.S. It feels weird using my Animal Jam name on my "real life" blog.

I know, I'm hopeless about not posting. X3

Anyways, if you're wondering why I've been so neglectful, it's because I have camp from 9 AM- 5 PM every weekday of this week. It's a photography camp to help me choose which model of camera I'm going to get next week. ^.^

I think that I'm going to get a NikonD300 or something of the sort, because that was the type of camera recommended to me. I'm practically in love with the photos that Nikons take, I guess you could say. c;

I think that I filled up a lot of the storage of the borrowed Canon I'm using with photos of dewy leaves and flowers and that sort of thing. Hopefully people won't be weirded out by my photo-mania when they go to clear all of the photos off for someone else to use.

Today in the photography camp we took action shots of each other running and tossing balls and frisbees (I think that most of the ones I took turned out pretty well :3) and that sort of thing. I threw a frisbee for a bit as a live-action model. Then we did a bunch of editing with this photoshopping program, such as brightening and sharpening things.
By the end, I was really exhausted because I hadn't gotten much sleep the other night, so I kept almost dozing off and banging my head on the keyboard.

Then I went home, played a bit of Minecraft with Fluffiest my user is (PigeonYay, don't ask) and worked on math, since they're having me skip a year of it. *groan*

So, yeah. Right now I'm basically drinking iced tea and being unproductive. I'll update more (and hopefully with photos) tomorrow. (:

Today was nice- swim practice, doctor's appointment, swim tryouts, all of the usual everyday stuff that I do. :3

Currently it's pouring down BUCKETLOADS. We (my mom, brother, and I) were in the car just a minute before it really started  really pouring, and basically the moment that we set foot onto the front porch the rain became dense and loud and started battering the trees.

Mom rushed out to cover the pumpkin/gourd vine growing in our lawn- I couldn't help her because I was changing out of my bathing suit- and made sure that nothing would blow away. The rain's fading out a bit now, but the forecast calls for "scattered showers" and there's still loud peals of thunder in the distance. We'll just have to wait and see.

Swim team was delayed because of some random event, so I got to wake up later. (what a relief!)
We swam a few sets of 100s (which equal four laps, FYI) and did a few racing dive practices, then played underwater sharks & minnows. ^.^

I have NO idea what I was thinking when I drew that^
By that point, it had started drizzling cold rain onto our heads so we were all relieved to hop into the water, which was considerably warmer.
We played Sharks & Minnows like this: you have to swim from one side of the pool to the other and if someone taps your head when you come up for a breath, you're out. If you swim underwater, though, they can't pull you out or make you into a shark by tapping you on the head.
I was going to play, but I'd kind of forgotten how to so I just sat out for a bit, then randomly hopped in. I didn't get tagged out at first, but tons of other people had already been tagged out before so I eventually got caught. X3

After that, I went on a nice walk with my dog, even though it feels sweltering out- like, 100-degrees fahrenheit-I-think-I'm melting-sweltering.
Now I'm just kind of sitting around, having nothing else really planned out for the day. Oh well.
Should I post more?

My brother accidentally bopped me in the nose with the back of his head when he pushed off of the wall to do a backflip at the pool, and it's currently alternating between being numb and stinging. Ergh, I'm either going to get a huge black-and-blue bruise or have a puffy nose. Of course, it was an accident. I just happened to be standing behind him. :P

Well anyways, the 4th of July was tons of fun. ^.^ We went into my dad's work office to watch the fireworks from this dome on the roof. Somewhere around there we saw some ducks and ducklings in the harbor:

Cuties :3 I couldn't get a good photo because I was weaving in and out of people, and the ducks were too far away from the dock. Oh well.

Then we saw a gorgeous sunset^ C:

Then yesterday, we drove out to go on this large Ferris Wheel thingy.

Everyone else was panicking because it was so high up in the air (like, 100-something stories), but I had a lovely time of looking out of the glassed-in sides at the ducks on the water.

A while later, we found a "Peeps store" X3 and looked around inside. Here are a few photos.

 

 

The candle smelled delicious, btw. I really wanted to buy it, but it was way too steep; $24. Oh well, Yankee Candles are always kind of pricey. >.<
I'll be posting more because I don't have a ton of things to do next week. (phew!)
Ciao!
~Edwing