Natural Born Mountain Goat.

Antietam (Original Italian Sonnet)

Wednesday lost to a battle in dismay

September seventeen, a day birds cry. 

Bloodied bodies stacked, unsure of allies. 

McClellan arose and began to pray. 

Months without stop, the beds were all a fray, 

the day seemed like no other, a blue sky 

sleeping, inspecting the water supply. 

Soldiers unaware of their fate that day. 

A single cannon emitted its shot 

Blunt fires spread like bleak radiation 

The screeches from the wounded were all naught. 

Pierced bodies hit the ground with vibration. 

Twenty-two thousand, seven seventeen. 

Their blood reddened the grass, no longer green.

A few things that make my life happier...

 Our president. I like this dude, a lot. 

 When photos are perfectly timed. 

 Again- when photos are perfectly timed! (Thank you, Stumble Upon, for bringing me these two shots)

 Mi novio, and the fact that he lets me tie his sweatshirt all weird then take pictures of him. 

Also the fact that he's so cool we can take hat pictures together. And other funny pictures together. And the fact that he makes me smile and the way his hipster glasses sometimes slide a little bit down the bridge of his nose. And how much I adore him in general. 

 Whitman College! I've been meeting people on Facebook that I will be with next year... excitement running through my bones, pumping through my veins, brotha. 

 The hundreds of (sometimes little) kids I babysit for. And that they don't mock me for doing duck face. 

 The HHS Theater Program (Royal Productions). Graduation finally hit me... it's actually a scary feeling. Scary but also wonderful. I know that I will be at home at Whitman, but it is also hard to look at what my life has been like for the last eighteen years and imagine how it will all change. I need to relearn roads- I don't know freeways and maps of Washington! I need to make all new friends, when I get upset I can't just call my best friends since 7th grade, they'll all be in different states. But one of the weirdest things I realized is that I will no longer be a part of the theater program. The thousands and thousands of hours which I put into those shows... and I haven't always loved it, (now I ADORE it), but it has just been a massive part of my existence thus far. Right now I'm directing another one act, by the same playwrite as 10,000 Cigarettes (Alex Braun): The First Fireworks. People cried at our dress rehearsal. It was inspiring. But more about that to come later, I suppose. 

When Stumble Upon brings me funny pictures of dogs diving under water for balls. 

Throwback?? Into the Woods!

Time for Marra to be an awkward Ukulele Girl again...

Muir Woods

Lake Calhoun- 6° F

 Gotta love those Minnesotan Winters!

 BUNDLED UP!!! 

Various CA

Finally got the new photoshop to work with my computer- I'M STOKED. But in all seriousness, no homework is getting accomplished tonight. Just this. Because it makes me happy. 

 Hwy 1- thank goodness for editing, I was able to take out 6 cars, a construction site, power lines, and three tourists. 

 Muir Woods

Some (of the many to come) Pictures from the Monterey Bay Aquarium

 This picture and the following one are my favorite pictures that I have taken, ever, hands down. 

 BIG GROSS FISH AHH. 

 So I was fascinated by the jelly fish... obviously. 

Lucy the Bearded Dragon Lizard!

My neighbors went out of town, so I "got" to take care of their lizard. 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------999999999999999999999999999999999999999 THE LIZARD JUST TYPED THAT SHE CRAWLED ONTO MY KEYBOARD AH;ASFOIH;O AHHH. Anyway. I took pictures of here, here's some that turned out, I'm working on a frosted look for my pictures right now by lightening them in the editing process... it is somewhat working.

 Bearded Dragon Lizard Selfie. 

Is she deep in thought? Majestic. 

Some of the photography on Stumble Upon is so beautiful I want to cry.

Agh, I've been editing pictures and cleaning my room and listening to Pandora to make up for so pissed off I am. And life was so swell! Fighting, blowing things out of proportion, lying- ah, all beautiful parts of the teenage experience. I can't wait to escape! At least I am getting some cool pictures out of all of this...

Unedited Sneak Peak- Aquarium!

California- Update

I'm alive! Yahoo! We've been crazy busy, I just was able to upload some of my pictures tonight, but haven't had enough time to edit them yet. But I am very excited! Incredible shots of Muir Woods, Hwy 1, San Francisco. Tomorrow I'll do some aquarium photography at the Monterey Aquarium, which I am anxious to start! But... here is me a couple of days ago... I was a tree... that is all. HAPPY NEW YEAR!