I Wish Time Would Stop

Time goes by too fast!!!!! Once again, I feel like I haven't been on here in forever. I don't like this feeling, hopefully soon it will go away! Also once again my dumb excuses are work and school. However work is awesome because who wouldn't want to work at the best book store in the world?!? But for the next week I will be posting on a separate blog for a service project for my Mass Communications class called Project River City Reads. We are helping to promote the River City Reads organization which helps set up book clubs in the metro-area. You can read all about the organization here and see my blog about their latest book club book here! So since my blogging efforts will be going towards that, I didn't want my personal blog to feel lonely so I decided to blog about blogging! Kind of. Anyways, this is just me, letting you into my stream of consciousness way more than you probably want to be, saying I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday (I know I did!) and if your family is like mine then you already have Christmas decorations up! I will be posting pictures of all the decorations in my house next week :) for now enjoy this look at early Fall with pictures I took at a football game at my old high school a few weeks ago!

P.S.--The JMU football pictures are done, I didn't take my camera to the last game so I hope you enjoyed them while they lasted!

I don't know if you can see it but it was a double rainbow!

These next pictures were taken by my friend Owen DeValk who is an amazing photographer!!! He usually does people and he never shoots with a Nikon so I was impressed he figured out how to use my camera :)

My Week!

My Week! by gariley featuring a double breasted coat

Fall Break at JMU

Yay for Fall Break! It was a few weeks ago, but as I said before, I got very behind on my pictures, my apologies. But I spent the weekend with my sister at JMU (like I don't spend enough weekends there as it is) and I had a blast! Saw some movies I had been wanting to see (Bad Teacher and The Change-Up, if you love what I call 'hangover comedy', you would love these movies!) and got to walk around and take pictures! The best part though was THE FOOD! Most people know that one thing JMU is known for is their food. And there's a reason for that, it is delicious! Seriously, after eating at VCU's dining hall--which don't get me wrong, it's decent-- JMU food is like heaven. Especially E-Hall, their new dining hall. I've never had an omelet before because I always thought they were weird but I tried one there and it was so good! Anyone reading this who is applying to college, apply to JMU, even if it is just for the food, trust me, it's worth it.

Anyways, now that I'm done with my tangent, pictures! I apologize that there are so few, and that they have almost zero variability. It was cold, and cloudy, and not pretty at all outside. When you're shooting people, it's easy to work with! But when you're shooting landscape, it sucks. And I didn't even get a railroad track shot for some silly reason, oh well, hopefully you can still enjoy these!

I was sitting in the quad and I found this leaf...

It was pretty cute so I asked it if it had ever thought about modeling...

It said yes! So we did some shots to test its true ability...

I think it did a wonderful job for it's first time :)

Yay new stadium! And don't be fooled by the blue sky, I found new toys in photoshop and decided to test them out

Then there was this whole group of rocks! I knew they would be the perfect models

They were so good, I didn't even have to ask them to pose, they did it on their own!

The one with the stripe is my favorite :)

JMU vs. Villanova

FINALLY! I apologize for these pictures being so late, I got very behind on my editing, but its ok because now they are up! This was such a good game, and the coldest game! Since our new seats are so far up at the top, even at 1:00 p.m. we are in the shade. But it will be nothing compared to the last home game which is November 12, and I'm pretty sure that game is later on in the day which means even less sunlight! But I love it and I can't wait to sit in the freezing cold at the top of a mountain (well, stadium, but it makes you feel like you're on top of a mountain!) with no sunlight taking pictures :) there just might not be as many because my hands (even with gloves) might freeze and fall off... but I'll do my best! So for now, enjoy the Villanova game!

First touchdown, everyone went crazy! And the wind made the streamers go all over the field :)

New halftime show: BROADWAY THEMED! They opened with a medley arrangement of the Intro of Wicked and Defying Gravity, then from Chicago: Cell Block Tango and another song I can't remember :)

We drove around before the game and ended up "tailgating" (more like picnic-ing) at this baseball field. As we were driving back to the stadium my dad saw this house next to a river and really wanted a picture so I did the best I could while in a moving vehicle