Rock Houndog's photostream

Well, my time on this earth has now been 1,641,081,600 seconds long. A little over a billion and a half seconds; or counted in sunsets, 18,994 sunsets long.

I dare not think how many of those seconds I have wasted in despair, anger, envy, fear or jealousy. Might it be that in the passing by of those moments, if I can leave them behind, some sort of growth may have occurred? I can only hope.

As that sun will surely rise tomorrow, I too wish to rise from the ashes of a year filled with too many of those dark seconds. I have survived through them and I do not want to waste any more time living them.

None of us knows how many seconds we have left. I for one wish to savor the ones I am granted left to live and accept that there are dark days in life, but if per chance one can make it through them, bright days are sure to follow.

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Color pushed a little over the top, but what the heck; the beauty of these little bouquets of flowers really are over the top.

Spring is sprunging already here in San Diego and there are a myriad of flowers beginning to bloom.

Fun. Fun. Fun.

To hunt down and capture the beauty of these guys (can you see the tiny little bug who found a palette of color to rest on).

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Evening at the Escondido City Hall fountain.

The moon shone in the sky and the lights of town hall spalshed color across the water.

This photo will soon be hanging framed downtown in San Diego at a coffee shop.

It will be one of many framed photos I have hanging in galleries and establishments around the city now.

Flickr was my mentor, inspiring me and teaching me what great photography is about, through all of the fantastic photographers who share there work here. Now as a member of a few art leagues, I have the opportunity to show and sell my work, wherein I aspire to share what I have learned.

It has been a challenge, yet very rewarding to move from the halls of flickr to the brick and mortar halls of life and people's homes.

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Waves crashing, light giving way to new colors and the sea reaching out to touch the shore.

Another day passes.

Today, such a day, ending. Oh the freedom to let this day pass. Another cycle ends and a new day will come tomorrow.

And just as the wave recedes, so to do my feelings of past events recede, bringing the wonderful freedom to accept the end.

Day to night, beginning to end. Such a day was today, a day that heralds a new chapter... tomorrow.

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Laguna Beach shoreline at low tide.

Was an amazing sunset, with wonderful sights all around. We explored our way up and over, around and under the rocks that led out to the point, hoping all the while that high tide did not come back to greet us.

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