Just an update...

Well! Winter is back. It was FREEZING tonight, but you all probably were not out taking pictures with out gloves... Above are some of my products!

The first one is just a wooden fence post in the middle of a field. I like this one mostly because it shows lines and contrast. I think if I were to print it I might fix the coloration a little bit, but personally I find it attractive. The second is just a normal sunset. I like this one because of the dark trees. It is a little dark, but again it can be lightened. Enjoy!!! Comments and critizem are welcome!

Photos Copyright of Marni Horton Photograpy

The Story of the Scar on My Knee

Since July 2007 I have had a rather nasty looking scar on my knee. It is oval shaped and turns purple when I'm cold. It also itchs constantly. Whenever I wear shorts or skirts and dress that show my knee people ask where I got it. To tell people the truth I always start out with "chasing boys." This always peaks some curiosity.
The real truth is that I was at Friends Music Camp in Ohio and I fell during serenade. Serenade is a lovely activity where the female campers sing songs to the male campers and vice versa. The girl's serenade this year happened to involve an elaborate plane of two girls out side taunting the boys out and the rest of them inside, waiting for the cue to run out. So on the night of serenade we had our songs learned and the guitars were tuned. We also were dressed as "super sexy ninja babes." As a group we walked silently (as not to wake the boys) across Olney campus towards the boys dorm. When we got there the boys dorm counselor let us all in and we hid in the public bathrooms down stairs. Then the two girls started to sing their song. After we all ran out (this is where the story gets interesting...)
As we were running out I ended up tripping out the door because I didn't realize that there was a concrete slab that was about 4-6 inches off the ground after the door way. When I look back on this moment in my life I realize that I don't remember falling at all. So I landed on the ground with an earth shattering thud and just lay there. I do remember thinking "oh my this ground is really comfortable and cool, I'll just lay here for a while." After I was laying there the boys dorm counselor and the camp nurse came over to see if I was OK. I also remember asking them what had happened. When I was put together enough to realize, I looked down at my knee and it wasn't as bad as it could have been and the cut didn't seam that bad. I thought that I would get away without a scar. Boy was I wrong.
So I ended up getting up and joining in the singing and the goodnight hugs afterwords. Then I went over to the infirmary with the nurse to take a look at my knee. When we got there we went in the bathroom and had to cut my leggings off my knee (they were cheap and ripped like crazy anyway.) After that the nurse dressed the wound on my knee and gave me some pain medicine to ease the throbbing pain I had in my knee. Then we walked back to the girls dorm and I tried to go to bed. My room mates were just getting ready to sleep when I got there. I got into bed and then just started crying. I think it was mostly that my mother had never ever given me the sympathy that the nurse had and that I missed home. My room mates went to get the nurse and she told me it would be alright and gave me some wather. Then I fell asleep.
The next day I woke up and removed the bandage from my knee and it was awful! It had not started to scar yet because it was moist under the bandage and it had a white film over the top of it. Naturally, I was worried. I showered and got dressed and went to see the nurse and she redressed the wound. For the days following, we could not figure out how to keep the wound covered because it was too big for just a bandage. I also ended up having a HUGE bruise on my left hip. A few days after the incident, the band director was like "oh my goodness Marni! We thought you died because you weren't moving!!" This made me think about what actually happened. I think I blacked out as I was falling and the came back when I hit the ground.
So this is where the large circular scar on my knee came from. Just a story to pass the time! Moral: Don't be a sexy ninja that chases boys around with guitars in the dead of night...

Find A Penny, Pick It Up...

...All day long you'll have good luck? Well for me, not so much. I was so excited yesterday morning when I was going down the stairs and saw a penny, faced heads up. As a person of 17 years and 5 months, I have never found a penny heads up. So naturally I had to trip the person I was walking with to pick that penny up. I was so excited for my day of good luck. Boy, was I wrong.
After picking the penny up I froze my but off walking to the elementary school for my mentoring program and almost got hit by a UPS truck. (To all those who have heard this story, I totally forgot this instance of bad luck until now.) As I do every Wednesday, I went skiing with my HS ski club. As I went to pull out my ski pants from my bag and found that my little brother had dumped curry powder in my ski bag. It did smell delicious, but it also stained my shirt. I have been skiing for a really long time and usually I do not fall very much. Last night I had my ego crushed by going over a small jump that I can usually handle. On top of this my ski pole ended up hitting my cheek bone. Luckily, no bruise. As I was changing after skiing, I pulled my under armor over my head and yanked out both my hoop earrings, ouch. No blood involved, but it was still bad luck. This morning I went in my back pack to get my stuff out and TWO of my pens had exploded. There wasn't any mess, but I was down two pens. On top of that, I forgot my calculator for my calculus class and suffered with out it.
Well here is my account of NOT having good luck when finding a penny. As I was thinking about my 24 hours of "good luck" I decided that it isn't up to a penny or a good luck charm or a four leaf clover to make a persons luck good. It is up to the person to make their own luck.

Kids these days...

So yesterday, like every other Sunday this winter, I went to musical practice for our schools production of The Sound of Music. I am a nun and a guest in the ball scene, therefore I get to waltz for about 30 seconds then leave stage and then watch the children as they say goodnight. Since there are almost no boys in the musical me and my good friend Joelle are unoffically a couple in this scene untill we find some lovely young men (not easy). We are such good friends that there isn't a problem with it and naturally we joke around more than we pay attention. Anyway, yesterday we were walking off stage and one of the little girls who plays a Von Trapp child gives us this look like we were crazy and naturally we were being our usualy joking selves.

This week at our school was regents week and as a senior, I didn't have any regents (!!) and didn't have to go to school, but since Wednesday was a ski club day, I went in arround 2pm. At SE, the middle school is conected to the high school and we share the auditorium, cafe., and band/chorus rooms. As we do every Wednesday me and a bunch of my friends were sitting in the cafe. waiting for the bus for ski club. It was really just a bunch of us talking and someone brought out some nail polish. After a little while a middle school girl passed (their school day was still going on at this point) and asked if this is what high school was like. We sorta just looked at her and were like "what?" and she replied "do you guys just skip class and sit arround and paint your nails?" She didn't understand that we didn't have classes, so we were kind and explained to her about regents week. After she had left we all agreed that we should have told her that it was what we did everyday.

So after these to instances I started thinking about how much todays junior high and elementary kids have changed since I was their age. The world is an ever changing place and it is really interesting to see what the kids these days think of things. It would be lovely to think that in high school you just sit arround and laugh with your friends during free time, but soon they'll learn that it isn't like that.