End of the Year Extras

Track 2012

This is part of the sign my parents put on my bedroom door.

400m state qualifier!

200m all-conference!

Plaque for 200m Conference Champ

A few newspaper articles from the season.

What a successful track season! Conference champs both boys and girls, individual conference champ in the 200. Track sectionals were at Medford last Thursday the 24th. Winds that day were 40mph and there were lots of storms and rain. We had a 2 hour rain delay and didn't get to start finals until 8:00. I had 200m prelims before the rain and man it was HOT and WINDY. So windy we had to take down our tent. I felt like I was hitting a wall the second I came out of the blocks. So I had a pretty slow 200 time and didn't qualify for finals but that would turn out to be an okay thing. So after the storm passed and we finally got back out on the track, everything was soaking wet and I was super duper nervous mostly because I was seeded at fourth and anything lower would not get me to state. To make things worse I was in the 6th lane. I'm very used to being in 1 or 2 and being able to see everyone that I have to catch up to! Well it was finally time to run the 400. The wind had died down and it was much colder. End results: I ended up placing 4th with a time of 1:03.7 not a PR but fast enough to qualify for STATE! So in a couple days I will be heading down to La Crosse for the state track meet and looking for a new PR.

Nature in Wisconsin

Minimalism

Minimalism was a recent assignment. This picture I took down by the river as the sun was setting. This is how I also got the colors in the background, the blue is from the water and the yellow/orange is from the sky. I flipped the picture to make it more interesting.

Cats and Chickens

Arboretum

I found the spiderweb I've been looking for! But I was not there at the right time to get pictures of it with water droplets. So maybe this weekend I will take a trip down there one morning and see what I can find. I really like the first water picture with all of the colors, it is probably my favorite picture from the Arboretum trip.

Green grass, blooming flowers, budding trees, flowing rivers and everything else a person finds in the spring season. Not much more I can say about these today.