Crater Lake

This is Crater Lake.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

It seems that up there in the mountains, all the colors are more vivid.

More real.

I think it's because so much of it is still wilderness.

It hasn't been soiled by humans, yet.

I hope

 that it will never be settled.
That we will never ruin it.

 

I hope that we will protect this. I feel like it's one of the last places in the U.S. that hasn't changed much since God made it.

Since He designed and created it.

It
is
precious.

Clear Lake

 

This is the first place we stopped at during our road trip on Tuesday. It was only a bathroom break, so we didn't stay for very long,

                                      but it was beautiful.

The water was literally crystal clear -so clear that you could make out the individual grains of sand 15 feet down. The deeper the water got, the more it's color changed. From golden brown, to bright green, to turquoise and midnight blue - yet it never got cloudy or blurred. It was always perfectly transparent (no wonder they named it Clear Lake).

I swear it looked like something out of a fantasy movie. I half expected a mermaid to pop up and start sunning herself on a rock. ;)

Title-less

I don't know when I am going to get access to Internet next, so I just wanted to put this out there...
We're heading out to Crater (sp?) Lake tomorrow morning - I can't wait! I hope we have Internet at the hotel we're staying at, because I know I will have TONS to talk about, and TONS of pictures to post. The last time I was out there, it was winter 7 years ago... But from what i remember, it was beautiful. I am super excited to be heading out there again...

As for this past week... well, I've just been chillin'. Hanging out with my gramma at the little community swimming pool, playing pool (the game) with my grampa, and watching movies with the family at night. We've walked around and explored the [little] neighborhood a bit, and I've made friends with the nearby cats (they come running to me when I walk by! They're so adorable!!!). =)

I'm wishing right now that I had some pictures to post... Just hang on a little bit longer!

At a loss for words

Sorry I haven't been writing. I don't really know how many of you actually look at this thing, but I know there are a couple... So I apologize to those few.

Lately I just haven't been writing... Not in my journal, not on my stories, and especially not on here... I pick up the pen, and the words just won't come. It's like they're stuck in a big ol' trunk in some dark corner of my mind... I try to move it, but it's just too heavy.

That's how I feel. Like there is just so much to write about that I can't write about it...

So please, I'm desperately asking you to be patient with me. Asking you to be patient with me while I try to be patient with myself.

Cuz it can be frustrating, these sort of moods...