What does serenity mean to you? For me, I would probably define it as the idea of complete bliss, or fulfillment. While this might sound like the ideal form of existence, I find the idea of being completely fulfilled kind of depressing. What is there to do in a world where you already have everything, the true feeling of fulfillment really only comes from working through hardship. Id rather have an open cold horizon than an enclosed paradise.

Living in the valley, you don’t really get to see much change in the world around you. That is, until the sun starts to set and the clouds roll overhead.

Several months ago I joined a group call with some of my friends, as well as someone they had invited who I did not know. Though we had never met before, we struck up a friendly conversation and found we had a lot in common. Many Months and chats later, I invited him to take a hike with me in person up into the mountains in my hometown. Thinking back to the beginning, I find it interesting how someone can be right next to you, in this case in virtual space over a text application, and you have no idea how much you might have in common until you talk to them. I wonder how many people I know like that now.

Also the mad man brought his guitar with him the whole way for like 5 hours, giving that day an actual soundtrack. Legendary.

This week’s photo blog assignment was to take an inspirational photo of trash. I immediately thought of an airport junkyard I had seen a few times while riding my bike along the bay trail a few times before.

I also had some older photos of some defunct cars and farming machinery I had taken while up in the mountains that I thought where fitting

This Week’s Photo Blog assignment was to take a photo in black and white with the theme of Inspiration. Today was the perfect day to take a photo with this theme because it had rained the night before which had caused the sky to be quite dreary. I rode my bike down to a water way to see if it had rained enough to create water movement. Unfortunately, as you can see, it had not, but I did get some neat photos.

This weeks photo challenge was to take a photo that represented weight or mass related to inspiration. While thinking of possibilities for this photo I was reminded of this underpass on one of the bike trails near where I live. I was particularly drawn to this spot because I found it interesting how, despite the tons of looming concrete above, this spot has a quite calm feeling to it. Perhaps its the way nature and human creation mix, or it could even just be the shade from the sun. I personally like it because it reminds me of the place I grew up, the overgrown trees and the dry creek bed have an almost whimsical feeling that I find difficult to explain.

For this week’s photo challenge, we took pictures of our moods, how we felt at the time. For this photo I am trying to portray the idea of being stuck inside but wanting to be free.