haley beham photography: August 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009

road closed

I read on weather that there's a 30% chance of rain on Sunday...30%. That's 10% more than last time when it rained here in San Antonio. I mean, we're practically predicting a thunderstorm here. It has been such a dry summer. A few of my plants have died and I can't bring myself to buy new ones. Not yet anyways. Maybe if it pours on Sunday I'll consider it.

Anyways, here's a picture from a while ago when I drove to Bellville. I was ten minutes from my house when I was diverted because the road was flooded. Here's wishing for rain...

travels [italy]

Whenever I get the chance, I reminisce about my time in Italy. Last night I spent a little time going through some pictures in preparation for a book I making about my time there. I kept a journal almost everyday and took over 1200 pictures, which, looking back isn't a lot considering I was there for three months, but at the time, it felt like a lot. I just love to look back at all of the photographs. Each one holds a different memory for me. I would give anything to go back and just walk through a week in the life of my days as a student at Santa Chiara in Castiglion Fiorentino...waking up to go running in the hills before the rest of the town wakes, showering and walking up to Hermes for breakfast and to spend time reading and working on my Bible study (I seriously did that almost every day), going to class, walking to the train station to take the train to Florence. Once in Florence heading straight for the open air market and getting a bag of dried fruit before spending the afternoon walking around and then heading back to a home cooked Italian meal every single evening. Life cannot be any better, I'm convinced. So, to reminisce with me, here are a few pictures from my trip...I'm sure as I work more and more on the book, you'll be seeing more on here, and probably more stories as well.

Happy Wednesday!