The Happiness of Lines

 It's senior week, and there are some animals on the loose! To list a few, the pranks have so far involved a...solicitor, water guns, and an army of forks and spoons.

Today, I enjoyed a day of chalk with five other seniors. Here, Mike is creating a giraffe- who knows!
These students are all going away to college next year, and they will be moving out into the world.

Maybe it should be worrisome that they all have the time and free attitude to chalk rather than study before finals, but that letting go is what gets us all through. It was definitely one of the better spent hours of my school year!

Take a walk, go to the zoo, and find some creatures of your own. Explore them in the sky, or just flipping to Animal Planet. Accept the happiness challenge, and little your inner lion roar!
~Beth

"Energy, waiting"

This week, I'm with a team covering the Rochester International Jazz Festival for City Newspaper.  Every concert I walk into has jazz lights, jazz instruments, jazz musicians, and jazz lines.

These shots were taken tonight.  It's the stage of Harro East, before the concert.  This beauty was just sitting on the stage, waiting - impatiently.  The line was so gorgeous that I just had to grab a shot or two to admire the instrument later, which is now.  Just a few moments after I snapped the frames, a young helper came out to snatch up the trumpet and the moment had passed - at least in reality, but not in my camera.

"Still, waiting"

This trumpet was much happier to be played than to sit.

Still life has a far different meaning to some.  ~ Paloma