self-portrait challenge: portals

The September theme for Self-Portrait Challenge is "Portals". I haven't joined in for some time - not so much because I didn't want to as much as a total lack of time to do anything creative these days (boooo).

So, when this weekend presented itself with ample time for picture taking and I found myself wandering through a dew bejeweled meadow in the early a.m. hours with nary a soul in sight save for my faithful mutts - well, you know me. It meant only one thing: photo op!

I've been thinking about the theme though and what it meant to me. Portals; doors, windows, etc, are our entry and exit into different areas and new buildings, they are our glimpse into another world, and our exit from the one that we've known. I grew up in farm country and I've moved ...into farm country. I've lived in a city only briefly in my twenty-eight-years and didn't enjoy it one bit. As I get older, however, I find myself yearning for a more urban area. I want the shows, the music, the people, the bustle. But am I completely ready to give up my corn fed, four wheelin', gun weilding life completely? I'm not sure. I suppose I'll find out in a few months when I "graduate" from the manager training program and am given a store of my own. I'll have to up and move again, which we all know I don't handle well - but maybe this time I'll land somewhere that fits me just right. One can only hope.