Auditors are here, tag YOU'RE it!!!

I was tagged!!

Today the auditors are in the office, among all my other responsibilities here at work, I have very little time to do a full fledge post...so you will have to just enjoy another tag meme.

This tag comes from a good friend, Marcia

Go to your My Pictures, and pick the 4th folder, the 4th picture in that folder and blog it!



First, this was taken April 7th, 2006. I think I need to back the old photos up on my computer and relieve some memory on my old desktop... :)

Secondly, I know the date of the picture all too well.

It was a rough day.

It was my sister's birthday and she was spending it for the first time away from family. She had decided after Christmas that she was moving to Arizona. I missed her, I worried about her, I didn't want her to move so far away. I was just feeling blah about her being gone.

This also was the day that my first husband, exhubby1, was getting remarried. When he had left our home, I KNEW that there was another woman that was behind the hurried departure. He denied it, of course, every time I inquired. I had met this woman and I KNEW. Call it woman's intuition. I knew. No better way to confirm my feelings than to marry her five years after our divorce. Tell me NOW, I was delusional. Tell me NOW I was imagining things due to pregnancy hormones. Tell me NOW Asshole, that I was right.

I felt the heaviness of the day, weighing me down out of my happy zone. I decided to take a ride to the beach at lunch time. Something I love to do, plus I had my camera, something else I love to do (take pictures).

The day was gloomy, suiting my mood to a T. I took out the camera and started shooting. The beach itself looked gloomy, but the vegetation around it screamed out SPRING! Buds on the trees, Forsythia bushes bloomed their sunshine colors begging me to soak in all the signs of New Beginnings of Spring.

I saw this beat down mailbox (me!) and the backdrop of the Forsythia bush (new beginnings) and it made me smile. A smile of hope, a smile of letting go, I snapped the shot.

I still remember those feelings, from that very day. All of it captured here. I may feel beaten down at times, but there is still beauty in weakness and there is ALWAYS NEW BEGINNINGS.

I am not going to tag anyone, but if you want to play along, please consider yourself tagged. :)

I am off to contend with the auditors!