Renee and my surfing Buddha tshirt!!

Sometimes I find messages that inspire me in the most obscure places...on buildings, in books, bumper stickers, message boards, etc...today I found one right on an old tshirt I have worn over and over and never really paid attention to.

It is a god-awful bright orange tshirt that I picked up for $3.00. When we do beach photo sessions during the summer for Visual Photography, we wear orange shirts to stand out from all the other people on the beach so our clients can find us. I am in desperate need of doing laundry so, in need of a short sleeve shirt because of our summer-like temperatures in San Diego, I threw this tshirt on. Until today I never paid attention to what it said.

The message on my tshirt says..."You are safer moving forward than standing still..." Surfing Buddha

I realize as scary as stepping outside my "safe" box is...I am inspired again. Inspired enough that I photographed Renee at 8:00 this morning...

For anyone that knows me...I never willingly wake up early. Even on school days when Cassi has to get up at the ungodly hour of 6:30 to go to school, I usually wake up long enough to get her to school (unbrushed hair, no make-up, clothes probably inside out-ME not her!) and then go straight back to bed and sleep until I absolutely have to wake up for work. I even have my morning routine down to the last second unless something distracts me and then I'm late for work!

So the surfing Buddha on my bright orange shirt speaks to me-I have even invited almost ten different people to view this blog. (welcome by the way!) As scary as that seems...as unsafe as moving forward seems to me...I can't keep staying in the same place anymore.

Anyways...enjoy the pics of Renee and the other fun things I found to photograph down at the beach. She was my willing subject at Mission Beach this morning. We normally walk in the morning (Yes, when I get my butt up!) at Lake Murray but the weather was too beautiful on our days off so we went to the beach.

Yesterday, while we were walking, I kept finding areas I wanted to photograph in and Renee offered to be my guinea pig this morning. Thanks Renee!

Enjoy!