All The Little Fishes

Two outfits for the price of one! Okay, so what I wore fishing doesn't really count as an outfit. But hey! I'll start with the newer photos of this outfit. And after seeing these better photos, I have decided I need to find another top to wear under that shrug! This one just seems too dark now.

I also scored with these awesome earrings. They belonged to my great-grandmother, and my grandmother had had them until recently. When she moved in with my uncle, she got rid of a lot of stuff and my mom wound up with the earrings. Then she saw me wearing some very similar shell earrings and gave me these. I love knowing my great-grandmother wore these. It's her name I have tattooed on my arm, actually.

Pretty much right after I finished taking these photos, we packed up the gear and headed fishing! Okay. Fishing. So you're probably thinking... boat... rod and reel... Well, not quite. We went barbotte fishing. We used sticks. Yes, literally, sticks. (Okay and some bamboo branches too, but mostly regular tree branches) And we got a ton of fish with them!

I bought this sweater for $5, the summer I was 17. I've worn it barbotte fishing nearly every year I've gone. Somehow, it just became the Fishing Sweater. Great way to spend $5 anyway, considering I still have it five years later.

My mam, proudly holding out the rock bass which she unhooked from her line all by her own self.

This take-a-photo-with-a-fish thing has kind of become a habit for me too. I did it last year, and the year before. Fish, fish, fish! Too bad these little sun fish are such pigs, they'll eat a whole worm in seconds

Do you see the weird antelope looking shape in the cloud there? It totally looks like the silhouette of some African, hooved something or other. I know clouds aren't exciting but I really thought that was too cool to pass over.



And finally just a photo I took at a rest stop on my drive home. It was raining and I had to hide under a tree to - unsuccessfully - try and stay dry. I really want to go back to that one on a sunny day sometime in the future. I hope you all have a great weekend! Cheers!