Nature's finest

It was a warm Summer night, with a delicate breeze washing away the heat of the day;
Transfixed, I stared onto this miracle of nature, this most beautiful creation of colors and shapes.

With a sense of awe, I humbly tried to capture the magnificence of it all with my meager camera, as if anything but the finely developed human retina and brain could ever hope to truly see the sight that was before me...



And guess what?





The sunset was pretty darn nice, too. ;)

One year and counting

One year ago - on this exact date - I was a bit nervous; it was the day before my first face-to-face with Gorgeous (well, she hadn't turned into Gorgeous yet at that point) and apart from being my first date in a while, it was also my first date with someone I'd met on ye olde interweb. Here we are, one year later, and things have turned out pretty well - great, even.

Over the course of a few Summer months, Cute and Nervous Date blossomed into Gorgeous, and these last 8 months we've met each others' friends and families, we've laughed and cried together, traveled together, made and eaten a number of dinners and cakes together, watched way too many seasons of a number of TV series together and seen a reasonably balanced mix of chick flicks and guy movies. We've exchanged strengths and weaknesses, musical preferences, hugs, kisses, hickeys and zerberts; we've learned a few new things about our respective cultural backgrounds, made some small and some slightly bigger plans together, developed some routines and habits (some good, some... interesting), looked each other deeply in the eyes and said profoundly silly things and sometimes said profoundly serious things while looking rather silly. Hey; it's a balancing act and we're doing pretty good so far.

So, I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly say "Thanks!" to Gorgeous for hunting me down and... uhm... I mean, for changing my life for the better - mind you, it WAS pretty good to start with, but there's always room for improvement - and for bringing that perfect blend of love, appetite for life (and food - especially the yellow, banana-shaped kind), insanity, spontaneity, noise and silence into my life. U are teh roxxor!