Today has been a bit of down day for me. I know we all have them sometimes, days when we feel very alone and lonely (two different feelings, neither fun). I miss my friends in Chicago right now. I’ve been listening to a lot of John Mayer, Thievery Corporation, Mazzy Star and Portishead so that tells you all you need to know about my state of mind. 
I’ve been productive though so at least that’s good!
Conan’s last show is on right now and that’s making me feel sad, too, and they played a sweet vignette of clips set to music and that kind of thing is so powerful and makes me teary!! I’ll miss him and I’m so sad for him!! (Even though I have to say that Craig Ferguson is my absolute favorite late night host, he’s so brilliant and genius and absolutely hysterical – so I’m VERY glad he’ll still be on, I’d be more sad if he was getting the boot!)
Anyway, I just took a break a little bit ago and decided to edit some photos just for me! Jody and I went out in the morning a couple weeks ago when we saw the trees covered in gorgeous frost and ice, it was so beautiful and my photos don’t even do it justice – I kind of knew I couldn’t possibly capture adequate wide angle shots that showed all the trees covered (my favorite lens was in the shop for cleaning and we mostly saw those from the car!) so I focused more on the small details and winter light. We had a wonderful time that day walking around and driving around and I have some very cute and funny photos. But because of my mood right now the photos (well the ones I edited, not the ones of Jody and I) all seem kind of moody to me – it reminded me again that one part of the experience of photography is the frame of mind of the viewer at that moment. In a couple days I’ll probably look at them again and see gorgeous winter wonderland!
Tomorrow I’m helping Curtis out at a beautiful winter wedding, I’m excited! Seeing the love and laughter and joy of a wedding day always makes me so happy and filled with excitement for the couple!!!
(I just heard Conan’s speech at the end of the show, he’s so amazing, such a good person and he took such a high road – and I love what he said about cynicism. I love him even more after that. And am even more sad for him now.) Anyway, here are some of my photographic observations of a frosty Winnipeg winter day. ::
Okay one more, but a silly one, just so people don’t worry about me.
by Rebecca Whitney
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