Two More Weeks...

Well, in two short weeks, I will be returning to college to finish my last undergraduate semester, and I am pretty excited. I am so ready to see my wonderful fiance and spend what time I can with him! And I cannot wait to see all my friends! I also cannot wait to be back on schedule again; I get so much more done that way.

Last week, I went on vacation with my family and my mother's parents to Myrtle Beach, SC. It was a bit of a trial once in a while, but we managed to have fun. One of my cousin's got married, and we thoroughly enjoyed celebrating with the whole family.

The pictures below are of the beach where we stayed.

This last picture also includes a poem I wrote while watching the sunrise.

With the wind barely kissed by the dawn

a pale light blushes in the eastern sky;

it turns the gray a blooming rose

as the neverending waves break the shore.

It seems such a simple thing:

the reoccuring rising of the sun,

and yet it is unlike any other,

for this one I deemed to watch.

I watched as the sky was painted,

gilded gold with unseen Holy fingers:

as the water tinged a soft blue-gray

by the sweeping of the gentlest hands.

As the clouds were stained a golden pink

while their backs still cling to nighttime's shadow.

Never before was this landscape fashioned

in a portrait such as this.

This, this is the one and only sunset of its kind.

there will never be another like it in the world.