"WE SHOOT AT DAWN!!!"

 Remember Colleen? 

I went up to the mountains with her yesterday to shoot some photos. 

She's really into photography too. 

It was lots of fun. 

We're already planning urban excursions to old signs and abandoned amusement parks and buildings.

Photo shoots with friends covered in chocolate and more dawn shoots and 

(I'm not going to stop bugging until someone goes with me, but I hope it's Colleen and my sister)

a trip to Yosemite next year with 100 rented lenses. 

So, Colleen got up at dawn for me and waited at Lake Gregory.

Then I was late. 

I fixed her camera, 

and she filled up 3 of my almost flat tires while I fix it flatted my tire that really was flat. 

We shot the lake that we both grew up by and 

conversed as to how non-cool the lake we both grew up by actually is now. 

We hung out at her mom's house and played with her baby 

and attempted a cat rescue.

This culminated in a cat that screamed its head off 

(and to the detriment of my nerves sounded like a wailing toddler

still stuck in a drainage pipe and Colleen scratched up by the hill of berry bushes she fell into 

while trying to rescue the toddler cat. I hope it got free somehow. 

THINGS YOU PREFER TO NEVER HEAR. EVER. 

1. Paris Hilton saying any word in the human language. 

2. Styrofoam squeaking as you rub two pieces together. 

3. Fingernails down a chalkboard. 

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger doing a reading of the 'sex life' parts of his book. 

4. A cat screaming its head off and sounding like a baby in despair. 

It was a really fun day!

Below, Colleen at dawn. 

DAWN LIGHT IS THE FREAKING BEST. 

I believe the line "WE RIDE AT DAWN!" was written by a photographer.