January 3rd, 2014

I realized today that I have a severe lack of photos on my blog and none of the photos I have posted have been my own. I've been doing nothing but study for the past 2 weeks and I haven't taken any proper pictures in months so I'm going to share a few photos from a really lovely day a few months ago: January 3rd, 2014.

I can't say I really remember the entirety of the day but what stands out most to me is that after going out to dinner with my parents that night we were driving through this park in the next town over and it was drowned in untouched snow. I suddenly exclaimed that I wanted to run through it so my dad stopped and told me to do it then. Despite not being dressed for winter weather let alone running through the snow, I did it anyway. It was only January and this was one of our first big snow storms so I still really loved the snow at that point (about 10,000 snow storms later, I had grown a fond hate of snow). My mom got out of the car and joined me. I tried to snap pictures of the field but my camera has a horrendous flash that makes these weird light streaks and ruins most photos. My mom and I laughed and took weird light streaked photos of ourselves until our fingers almost froze off and then we ran back to the warm car that my dad was still waiting in. It was childlike and fun.

Here was a tree in the park and some of those odd flash streaks my camera creates

Sometimes I don't realize how "New York" I am until I see pictures of myself standing in the middle of a snow covered field wearing a dress and a faux fur coat (all black too, of course!)

This is my neighbor's house. They get these huge, dangerous icicles on the side of their house that, luckily, no one has been injured by yet.

 

 

My back porch covered in snow.

Alright, time to get back to studying. Only two more finals to go! I've been listening nonstop to "Music" and "Hung Up" by Madonna. They're not at all good songs, but ridiculously danceable and catchy and they're helping me conquer finals!