States I havent been too yet

Weekend Roadtrip 2008

More pics after the break…

Nascar Bristol Spring Race 2008 Pictures

More pics after the break..

Explain to me this…..

I’m going to Virginia this weekend to take photographs and the weather states that it is supposed to be raining all weekend.

This is the current radar map, and today is Thursday.
Where is this rain supposed to be coming from? I do not understand the weather here.

Update: It’s Friday.. and amazingly there is rain all over the place.
Weather forecasting is a crazy business.

Lilly and Flora Warhol Print

I was sent these two doggie pictures before the year was over to make a warhol out of. It was a fun project and the California owners were thrilled! Here’s the finished look.

If you want to order one for your own pet, drop me a line.
Liz@photo502.com

Brice Canyon Prints

Unfortunately this is the only picture I have of this before it sold.
Anyway, If you want one for yourself or as a gift its a 16×20 frame with an 11×14 metallic print
$100

Photographs from the War

I haven’t posted this on here yet, but have decided to now. I uploaded photographs that my grandfather Delbert Printice Valentour had taken while he was in the war. I added the names of the people in the photos if they were listed on the back of the print.

link/dead

Japan Travel Journals

OK so i was bored and thought HEY let me just start scanning in my travel journals from past trips. What on earth was I thinking? I just spent 4 hours at my computer scanning in pages from my Japan journal. Oh my god i cant tell you how big of a head ache i have. I should have counted the pages before taking on this project for real. I ended up scanning in 100 pages exactly, which scares me because its seriously the smallest of all the journals. My other journals are twice and three times bigger. So that leaves me with no choice but to leave the rest for one day when i hire myself an assistant. I will sit said assistant down at a scanner and wish them good luck. They will want to shoot themselves, but whatever i will never try that again sorry.

So next step is to work with this flipviewer thing i downloaded and make it presentable to upload to the online site for all to read. I always thought my journals are my personal experiences and should be kept somewhat private, but they’re just too cool not to show the world. I need to make a book in How to make a travel journal 101.

Anyway, here’s a sneak peak from Japan Journal via 2004:
I obviously said ‘shit’ way too much back then.

it’s going to end up something like this:

To view or purchase my photographs from Japan
please visit my website at
www.lizziemorrison.com

So.. the river is going to flood when all this snow melts.

This was this afternoon when i was driving along the river to my house.
We have 12 inches of snow to melt over the next couple of days..
should be interesting.

Retraction: OK, in fact the river is not going to flood. But for the record it was pretty high.

Update: OK i totally called this, the flood gates are being put up.

Snow again!!

i was outside for 3 hours today shoveling thesnow..when it was at 4 inches ..A couple hours later I come back outside and ithas reclaimed the sidewalk.

more pics after the break…

Favorite Quotes

I am currently snowed in if anyone wondered.

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” –St. Augustine

“It’s the simple things in life you treasure. “

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.”

“There is only one success in life, to live the way you want to.”

“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”

“The rules in shotgun are very simple and very clear. The first person to shout shotgun when you’re within the sight of the car gets the front seat. That’s how the game’s played. There are no exceptions for someone with a concussion.” -The Office

“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ” -Charles Kuralt

“ I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” -Mark Twain

“ If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -James Michener

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

“ We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” -Hilaire Belloc

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu

“Resist the dark side of hate and jealously and the force will be with you always.”

“I am William Wallace, and before me, I see a whole ARMY of my countrymen here to battle the English. Ay, fight and you may die, run and you’ll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives…. but they’ll never take our FREEDOM!!”

“The Almighty tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he’s pretty sure you’re fucked.”

“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. ” – Fight Club

“You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

“ You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. ” –Chuck Palahniuk

“Did you say the world is coming to an end? Shouldn’t we all lie on the floor or put paper bags over our heads? “

“I’m not even supposed to be here. I’m just “Crewman Number Six.” I’m expendable. I’m the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I’ve gotta get outta here. ” – Galaxy Quest

“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the *third* most intelligent. The second most intelligent were of course dolphins who had long known of the impending destruction of earth. They had on many occasions tried to alert mankind but their warnings were mistakenly interpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a suprisingly sophisticated attempt at doing a double backflip through a hoop while whistling the star-spangled banner but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. ” -The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Ahhh! Woooh! What’s happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my… well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a… tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what’s this roaring sound, whooshing past what I’m suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I’m dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There’s an awful lot of that now isn’t it? And what’s this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ‘Ow’, ‘Ownge’, ‘Round’, ‘Ground’! That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me? Hello Ground! [dies]”

Future Endeavors…

So…. heres the current plan. I need to have multiple yard sales and Ebay sales starting this spring to get rid of everything i own. My parents certainly are tired of storing all my misc. things. There is a couple things i will hold onto though like my Christmas ornaments, there is no way i will be giving those up. And a few childhood memories and photos and all my travel momentos and journals…and all my books, so ok, I guess i’m not getting rid of everything. Anyway, moving on, after I sell everything i own and get some backstock together for the art galleries, I will be moving to UTAH. yes UTAH. goodbye great people of louisville…….

Pacific Crest Trail

Absolutely no one that i know will quit their jobs for a few months to go on this adventure with me. Whats wrong with you people? Get out of the house! Jobs aren’t that important. So I really don’t want to go by myself. If i run into any bears who will i sacrifice? 😀 No seriously, if you’re willing to take the trip, let me know, I’ll be waiting. And it takes about 6 months to plan…

Night and Day

9pm night on the river & 7am the next morning
Storms coming in always bring the most dramatic sunrises and sunsets