Take a glorious bite out of the whole world

I still have more photos that I'm not able to post at this moment. Because I'm at work.

I went out with Tosh last night. We had initially planned on going out to Crave and being ridiculously indulgent, what with the heart-attacks-on-a-bun and the booze milkshakes, but Tosh wasn't hungry. Which worked out well for me! I didn't have to feel like a fatty! We ate at Tokyo Joe's instead. But joy!! They serve booze! So we had a few Mai Tais. Check it out:

I don't know how to make normal faces when people are taking pictures of me, which explains why I look that way.

We went to Good Company afterwards, I drank a bit too much, and I went home about two hours after we got there.

Rocky Mountain National Park 2: Electric Bugaloo!

Nymph Lake, in all its glory! It's not terribly obvious, but I was crouched down right at the lake edge, which was made up of swampy gross. There's another photo where I did the exact same thing. And here it is!

It was wet and smelly, and it squished a lot. But it was well worth it for me. I don't mind getting all gross if I think I'll get something good out of it. Well, truthfully, there are days where I don't mind getting all gross if I'm outdoors, anyway. Sometimes it's really awesome to spend a day outdoors and feel like you're caked in nature-y goodness by the time you get home. The only thing I don't appreciate about it? The swarms of flies and mosquitoes that assume that because I smell like their home, they can just hang out on me whenever they damn well please. That's not a thing, bugs.

I told The (Boy)Friend once that I really love skeletal trees, because they look like bare hearts stripped of muscle, and all you can see are the capillaries and veins. I also think they look fantastic in contrast to a stark blue sky. Which explains why I love this picture so much:

Naked trees like this were everywhere on the way to Emerald Lake. There was a pretty fantastic one right at the edge of Emerald Lake, but I can't remember if I got a decent picture of it. Like I mentioned earlier, the sun was directly above me, and that it made it exceptionally hard to get good pictures.

I have a second picture that goes with this next one, but it's on my computer at home. That does me a fat lot of good, but I'm going to post this picture, anyway. This was the picture I took where I stood in the middle of a waterfall pool that was approximately Cold As Fuck Degrees for ten minutes, doing my best to get the shot. I had planted the tripod in the water, but I was pretty close to the base of the falls I took a picture of, and I was also close to the top of the next cascade, so I was pretty much in a swirling rush of water. The tripod did very little to stabilize the camera. But, all things considered, the photo doesn't look as blurry as I thought it would. I took seven shots of this waterfall trying to get it right. The seventh was the one that finally turned out, and I was so excited to get out of that water. The dipper that was keeping me company didn't mind the water at all, though. He was quite happily dashing it all about himself, fluffing up his feathers and opening his beak in what looked to me like extended yay's of celebration. Such a happy little passerine! I did have to stop and giggle every few moments and talk to him. He was adorable, and I told him so several times.

If you look closely on the log on the very last fall, you can see his little grey blur. This was another area where it was just me, but it was (obviously) not nearly as quiet here. There was the rush of the water, birds chirping, and a delicious breeze rustling the leaves...the best kinds of noises. I loved it.

Once again, I'll have to post more RMNP photos later. But I don't mind. It's keeping me active on my blog again, and I haven't gone out to take pictures since Thursday.

I bought a bag of dried fruit, crystallized ginger, and nuts yesterday. I have now eaten every last almond, hazelnut and walnut, and now I have a half full bag of blueberries, cranberries, cherries, and crystallized ginger. I don't particularly care about those things. I'll probably have them for breakfast tomorrow morning when I get in to work.

Speaking of work, I should probably go do some. I leave here in four hours to go to the gym, and I haven't accomplished very much yet. I did a pretty fucking solid job on my report yesterday (that they thought would take me all weekend, but I'm too efficient to be bogged down by shit like that), and I sort of don't know what to do with myself today. I'll find something.