Lovely Shallows of the Rogue River Last Year (+1 inset!)

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I hope that everyone is doing great today! I woke up to sunny skies both outside and inside me, hooray! Truthfully, I still fight with waves of spirit-breaking anxiety on a regular basis but I don't think it's possible for me to avoid getting used to this "new normal". I do conduct my life differently and strictly in some regards. My exposure to news is a very quick scan of headlines, bypassing anything having to do with virus, political, or riot stories. Steve does his best to keep from relaying new stories that rile me up. I've found that I have a very bad temper about all of this so I work hard to stay away from any of it.

My creativity ebbs and flows. I'm processing some of my pictures but I have no desire to take any. On thing I'm looking forward to is that once we're back to camping I know that I'll be back to my happy self--photography really is a wonderful way to disappear from reality--and for me, it's going to be very therapeutic.

Visiting folks and commenting on pictures here on ipernity is still really hard for me…it's difficult to keep myself from descending into a fractured thought process of the world's horrors in regards to Covid and the rest. Then I feel broken and pathetic for not being able to deal with mere impressions of the world's state of affairs. *sigh*

Today's Pictures
These are a pair that I captured last July, just before we left for Vancouver Island. Steve wanted to try out some fishing on the popular Rogue River. Though the water level was low, we drove out to give it a try. Neither of us ended up catching anything but I did get these two pictures which turned out to be the best part of the experience!

Explored on 6/20/20; highest placement #4.