it's schmaltz day. a day for reminiscence of the sappiest kind.
so here is the randomly selected photo:
this is my waterfall and i.
i think i have more pictures of us around here somewhere...
i spent a summer living in the mountains, working at a little cafe attached to an old coal mine. i had a lake in my backyard and mountains in the front and often went kayaking or spelunking or exploring or something when i wasn't serving up soup and coffee. i had miscellaneous adventures involving air mattresses on white water rapids, and wrecking old trucks, and climbing ice walls with no ice on them in the middle of the night, and a particularly frightening bike accident.
and when i wasn't doing any of those things, i was climbing all over my waterfall, a book or my Bible or a notebook in tow. i even wrote a pretty cheesy two-page poem about the water "breaking apart and falling together, seamless like skin", and also about the ants who lived there at the edge of it. schmaltzy, i know.
i was going through a phase, or something. that was back before emo was screamo and {i think} it was ok to be all melodramatic about waterfalls.
what?
23 comments:
Beautiful waterfall. I would be so scared to sit on the edge like that. You brave soul! ha. I like schmaltz day. :) I think it's ok to be melodramatic about waterfalls... what? ha. :)
hahah i'm glad you don't think i'm a big cheese. even though i am. also i'm glad that you think i'm brave. i'm not.
you should post the waterfall poem!
hahaha i don't know if i'm that brave! i admire how brave you are to post yours...
so beautiful! I can see why it is "yours".
And I love the line of your poem. Very schmaltzy indeed!
:) thanks amy!
Was this in the Rockies? It kinda sorta reminds me of Maligne Canyon or something like that...
yep! it's on the highway between banff and jasper. :)
B-e-a-utiful! I wish I lived near a waterfall. I live near a swamp, like Shrek. Oy.
sigh. i miss it. i live near man-made lakes now.
I'm all about waterfalls. I wish there were some nearby. :)
you should build one in your back yard.
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aw! thanks jamie. :D i'm gonna go check yours out.
I think you should post the poem, too ;)
The waterfall is beautiful, and I'm jealous that you got to live by so much "outdoors."
I'm from San Antonio, so it's mostly made up of roads and buildings.. ha
hahaha i'm just not brave enough to post poetry! someday. maybe in two years.
and yes. i miss my outdoors...
That's gorgeous! I've never been to a waterfall- we don't have that many in Australia - but on my to-do-list for sure now :).
you absolutely should. they're maybe my favourite nature thing. right up there with the ocean.
Suzy! Get away from that edge! I just had heart palpitations looking at your picture.
I don't know what it is about heights. From the time I was little, I've felt drawn to fall...as though inertia has more strength than I do.
And that's why I don't sit on the edge of waterfalls.
But I secretly envy anyone that can.
It makes me think they have a strong sense of self.
haha, i don't know about a strong sense of self. i think that that summer i was a little bit more brave than usual. in a lot of ways. i wonder if i'd still stand on the edge if i went back today...
I wish we had a waterfall here. And a mountain (just one would do). And a real crystal clear lake, like out west. Ah well.
ME TOO. if i'd known you back in the day, you could've come and visited my waterfall.
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