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365 Day Photo Challenge 198/365 “Not Ready to go Home!”

16 Thursday Jul 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Beach, Florida, HDR, Ocean, Photography, Sunset, Vacation, Waves

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Vacations are never long enough.  Even though we had two full days at the beach I could’ve used another week at the least.  Everyone had a great time and we had great weather.  The waves were a bit rough but that didn’t keep us out of the ocean.  I was able to get to the front row this morning.  I had to get up early to do so but I was there when they set out the beach chairs.

Kids are wanting to do some shopping before we actually set the gears in motion toward home.  It’s a five hour trip so I’m in no real big hurry to get home.  The girls will have to go into work Saturday morning and my wife and I will be moving our son out of one apartment and into another so Saturday will be a busy day for everyone.  Sunday will be my rest day before having to start my work week on Monday.  To be honest, I am not ready to go back into that Hell hole.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 197/365 “Putting it in Perspective”

15 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Beach Chairs, Beach Time, Destin, Family, Florida's Beaches, Ocean, Seagrove, Vacation

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The place we’re in is not near as nice as the place we stayed in the past few years.  The beaches have a lot more people and you have no where to have a clean view of the beach without having to look over the people in front of you.  There are rude kids everywhere throwing sand and running into you.  There was a family of five kids just in front of us that had their radio jamming where everyone within a five mile radius could hear it.  The five kids all played paddle ball just in front of us and my son got hit several time with their wild hits.  The umbrella that they used was tossed in the air by the winds and I nearly got impaled through the chest.  At the days end I was not a happy camper.  I was ready to go home.  Not to the room but home.  I had enough.

I wanted to get to the beach earlier but my wife, who by the way knows everything, informed me that the chairs would not be available until 9am, (our room has complimentary beach chairs). I was not going to argue with her.  In a perfect world the chairs would be waiting for us at 9am but we don’t live in a perfect world.  I looked down and saw all the people heading to the beach before 8am and I knew what was going on.  Of course, I arrive at 8:30 to find that all the front row chairs were already spoken for leaving only the second row.  I put my belongings down next to an empty chair and sat in the other waiting on my wife to arrive.  When she did her first words were, “Why are you sitting back here when all these chairs are empty on the front??”  I politely informed her that those are already spoken for and that we should have gotten down there earlier.  She hates being told that she’s wrong.

To put things in perspective.  The place may not be as nice and it may be more crowded than the other place but we are here at the beach and I’m on vacation.   I had to bite my tongue several times today because I didn’t want to add to an already bad situation.  Our family has had several bad experiences and of course I’ve made it worse by saying something when I should’ve just kept my mouth shut.  So, I’m trying to exercise some knowledge that I’ve gained over the years.  The safety of my family is first and foremost on my mind.  I will say something when I feel that the wellbeing of my family is involved.  Otherwise I will just grin and bearing it.

Tomorrow is our last full day down here at the beach.  My plan is to get to the beach early enough to sit my big fat butt on one of the front row benches and reserve one for my wife and I.  Hopefully the family of five kids will be on the other end of us and I won’t have to worry about being impaled by an umbrella.

“Life is Good!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 194/365 “Busy Day”

12 Sunday Jul 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, Beach, Family Time, Ocean, Photography, Photoshoot, Weekend

Normally at this time I’d be trying to prepare myself for tomorrow, Monday.  Tonight I’m rejoicing the fact that I will not be going to work tomorrow.  Instead, I’ll be getting ready for the trip planned for Tuesday.  Tomorrow, I’ll have a lot going on including a small photo shoot.  Once the shoot is over with I’ll have some stuff to do but because I did most of it today it won’t be so bad.

Today, I cleaned out the back of my truck.  I’m not sure how the back gets so cluttered with junk.  Anyway, I got the back cleaned and hosed out.  I vacuumed the inside of the cab and gave her a good washing.  I then backed the truck up to my trailer and hooked up to it to pull it out to be able to work on.  I removed both tires and loaded them into the back of the truck so that I can get some new/used tires tomorrow after the shoot.  I looked like I had took a dip in a pool when I got done with all that today.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 191/365 “Can’t Get Here Soon Enough”

09 Thursday Jul 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, Beach, Cycling, Destin, Florida Coast, Ocean, Seaweed

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The sand between my toes, the sound of the waves crashing on the beach and watching my kids play in the serf, this is what I’m longing for and it won’t be too much longer.  We will be heading to the beach on Tuesday of next week and after a day like today, it can’t get here soon enough.  I’m even going to take my bicycle and do some riding along the coast while we’re there.

“Life Goes On!”

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