We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I was working on my Yosemite photos today and came across this one.  I almost trashed the original thinking it wasn’t any good at all, but started messing around with it a little. I kinda like how it turned out.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

~ Anna Quindlen

Here are a few of the shots I have finished working on in a slideshow from Flickr: