Out with the old and in with the new. A new year always makes me feel like spring cleaning. It's a perfect opportunity to pitch out the bad or blah, make changes, add in some more good, etc. So while I don't do New Year's Resolutions I do see a new year as a good spot in time to make some changes or set some goals and such.
I feel like I've been stuck in a rut and I'm hoping I can jump on out of it now that the holidays are over. I think I've just been too caught up in all the things going on over the last few weeks to really be inspired. I have plenty of thoughts flutter through my head daily that I intend to get written down but instead they flit about like a flurry of birds and I cannot seem to cage one.
I haven't taken many photos lately. I'm just uninspired, hope to get out of that funk soon. I'm not depressed, I wouldn't even call it the blahs, I'm just not filled with tingly excitement, or maybe I am and it's just temporarily frozen and unfeelable (ok, I might have made that word up, but you get it, no?). This Saturday we'll be up in St Germain photographing the Polar Plunge for Angel on My Shoulder and I'm hoping to regain my trigger finger.
You might think that today my photos and my words really have nothing to do with each other. But in a way they do, because on the days I took those photos I was feeling the tingle of inspiration, and the sun was shining and my finger did not tremble with the fear of getting frostbite.
The warmth comes through these images, Lisa! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI wish my finger trembled a little less (darn genes!)
ReplyDeleteI think that second shot is perfect!
Happy New Year!
Good analogy - flitting birds with your thoughts and feelings. No doubt winter is getting to you...it's only December??!!??
ReplyDeleteThose a great bird shots.
ReplyDeleteI thought the pictures were fitting. Gorgeous bird photos. Here's to some good change in 2009.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and your family! As usual, your pictures have managed to put a big smile on my face, that's why I keep coming back!
ReplyDeletei'm sure your mojo will return soon! happy new year
ReplyDeleteI think the birds totally fit...I'm hoping you get your 'mojo' back soon!
ReplyDeleteI've tagged you for a quick photo meme. Will you play along?
Wow, amazing shots. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteReally nice pictures,look like a perfect calendar 2009!
ReplyDeleteHave a healthy new year!
Lovely shots of birds. Hope you regain your trigger finger soon!
ReplyDeleteHave a rocking year ahead.
((Hugs)) to you Lisa. It's hard sometimes with the holidays and changes in the weather, I think it throws the body chemistry off some how. Good luck this weekend.... and I hope you have a wonderful 2009.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean. Exactly. I've been thin on inspiration lately too other than a few brief flashes (no pun intended). Which really sucks since I just acquired a hot new lens that I'd really love to be putting to work right now.
ReplyDeleteWe all go through it. So in the immortal words of REO Speedwagon, just "Keep Pushin' On"... it'll come back. And when it does it'll be better than ever.
Winter bums me out! Great pictures, though! I hope your "mojo" comes back too.
ReplyDeleteEver since I lost my hard drive, I have tried to get inspired again. It comes and goes, unfortunately. But, I can totally relate to how you are feeling.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos, I hope you get your mojo back too. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteWhat stunning photos!!
ReplyDeleteSuch great pictures, and you call yourself uninspired?
ReplyDeleteBut I get what you try to say here, winter is not my favourite season too!
We went on a photo walk this afternoon, and I came back with loads of grey pictures! Meh!
At least you have blue skies?
Have I wished you all the best for 2009 yet? All the best, and many many happy moments!
I always love the bird picutes. I like the last one best.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, thanks for sharing. Guess sometimes our words don't seem to go with the photos we pick to post. But our blogging buddies seem to understand that.
ReplyDeleteLove the bird shots, it is hard to get inspired this time of year. I have a new lens and still am having trouble. Time to go on a big road trip.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the weather has that effect on people. Our 3 child C has trouble waking in the morning and walks around like she has a piano tied to her. Our youngest Z who is 11 was talking to me about it when we were driving one day and said she should take her vitamins. I said she should and I don't know what it is with her. Z said, "I know, she has a lack of enthusiasm". We have been using that phrase a lot in the last three weeks since she said it. I think you have a lack of enthusiasm too and perhaps the weekend is what you need to get it back. I am sure when you get some warmer weather there will be a little more enthusiasm as well. I know that helps me.
ReplyDeleteI think I get the semi-blahs about this time every year. Some nice weather always seems to bring me back around though.
ReplyDeleteI can't get your "contact me" to show up....we haven't set a date yet, trying to save up some money first :)
ReplyDeleteWhere are you located??? We are getting married in the San Francisco area.
beautiful photos and beautiful words...I think they matched perfectly.
ReplyDeleteBirds Sing their Songs and Fly Freely through the Skies to New Destinations. I believe your words fit perfectly within the bird motif. Fly and Be Free in 2009 and Beyond...
ReplyDeleteI sure hear you on this one....this winter has seemed unusually long!!! And it is ONLY January 2!! Must be the weather. Your pics and your mood match fine, my friend....just fine!! Hugs to you!
ReplyDeletegreat shots. they are all so sharp!
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your commentary even as I appreciate EACH of your amazing photos. If you didn't tell us, we'd have no way of knowing these aren't new photographs. I need to take some time to reflect and set some new directions for myself too ... perhaps many of us do.
ReplyDeleteHugs and blessings,
You've kept your feelings pretty much to yourself -- as I've seen a lot of inspiring photos(posts) and not realized you were feeling that way.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping you would tell me what kind of sparrow that is. Some of them look so much alike --
I like your little thrush. What a great shot of that little shy bird.
I think about frostbite and winter photos. I did get some homemade and store made fingerless gloves which I only used once. What do you use? Nothing I'm guessing. I know what you mean about jumping out the window over the holidays. No, wait, you didn't say that.
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