self portrait challenge is....challenging

The theme this month is "headless". Now you wouldn't think that would be a difficult challenge but it's turning out to be harder than I planned on. The desire to be creative is overtaking my practical side which is telling me I could just take a photo any-ol-where I want to. I love my backyard and the mountain that is so close by, but sometimes I feel like I see the same things over and over again. I guess the spring fever has hit me and I'm ready to start going places again. And so the search for the perfect place begins. I'm talking about thought provoking, wow-why-didn't-I-think-of-that places. It's hard!

My uncle's lake house is the perfect place to take numerous pictures, which I soon will not be able to take advantage of because he has put it up for sale. It breaks my heart because I know that soon I will no longer be able to come to the place where a majority of my childhood summers were spent. Sometimes I feel like bursting out and crying "How am I supposed to get married at the lake if you sell the house?", because that was one of the options I had for my wedding (the other was Cades Cove but that's another story). If there was any way I thought I would be able to live there I would do it in a heartbeat. I'm not a public swimmer, so losing the privacy is gonna be hard but I guess I'll have to get over it. Maybe it won't sell this summer and we can still go there and swim in the privacy that it offers....is that being mean?



I couldn't decide which shot to use for this week's challenge, so I may use one of the other ones I took for next week. Is that cheating?