e-510 18mm 1/50 f/4 iso 100

i really was. well, not really, but really it's only been hours and jets and taking off my shoes to pass security in airports. i'm home. i filled six cards and one usb key with photographs, 2976 of them in fact, and after a quick d/l from the cards i'm finding the keeper ratio astonishingly high. i was there to watch the sunrise this morning, and i did exactly that, from a lifetime perspective, genuinely moments ago.

besides the photos, if i could choose to fill again ten days with as much wonder as i just have even one more time in this lifetime, well, that alone would be a life worth living. i am home tonight, i am home content being pawed all over by the most wonderful cat i could ever imagine, i am at home tonight staring at the photographs i made and loving my life, i am home tonight finding myself all glowing for so many reasons. my soul this late night - in this cold, almost-spring place - is singing. film at 11, and for at least the next month.

there are people and there are places to tell you all about, some old and many new, and all that is coming too. i was there moments ago, and a part of me always will be. i am blessed. And I am grateful. Long and short: wow.

and i'll fix the comments tomorrow, figured the whole thing out long before i'd had the chance to check a single bag, but sometime after i'd left the whole interwebs behind. cards are all on the big hd now, and so now it's time for me sleeping. tired like crazy, tired and utterly Unusually content. as always when it's late at night and i'm overwhelmed, i'll edit in the morning. for now, i'm bursting, full of everything. it's amazing.