As I was loading some photos from LifeLight 09 and a fishing trip to my computer today I thought a trip down memory lane would be nice so I reviewed some of the thousands of photos I have on my iPhoto catalog. By the way, if you don't take photos of your activities, I recommend you start. It is a wonderful way to remember that your life is full of fun activities. If you don't have fun activities in your life to photograph, recommendation two is that you start putting fun things in your life. I don't care how physically challenged you are, if you can think, somehow start putting fun things into your day-to-day activities so life is a joy.
As usual, I digress.
Back to this photo. As soon as I saw this buffalo amongst my photos, it reminded me of our trip to Custer State Park in the western part of South Dakota. If you enjoy seeing animals in the wild, this is an awesome drive. Recommendation three goes something like this: Don't drive a Rosewood colored minivan through buffalo herds.
In case you don't know what color Rosewood is, just check out the buffalo. I think you can see where this is going. One of the bulls, though he was somewhat sight challenged, tried to add our minivan as one of his fun activities in his life. Ok, not to the extent you might be thinking–we didn't have hoof marks on our roof. But he was thinkin' about it as he was sniffin' around the tail pipe for way too long. (I didn't know carbon monoxide was a buffalo aphrodisiac.)
After several tense moments, he decided not to buy us a drink and went on his merry way. Thankfully, we got the nerd buffalo who was too shy to ask us out. All I could think was "what could you possibly do if ... "
A few minutes later, we see several motorcyclists driving through the park. My thoughts changed to "there ain't a biker tough enough to handle that kind of situation." Fortunately, we didn't witness any buffaloes misbehaving so no reports were filed with campus police.
I drive a convertible now so I just don't see myself driving through Custer State Park in THAT. For a curious buffalo, it's just an annoying wrapper. And I know I am not "biker tough" so I won't be grinnin' any bears or buffalo into submission nor could I ever get that Crocodile Dundee hand thing to calm a wild animal either.
Back to my point about filling your photo album. All these fun memories were sparked by a simple buffalo picture. I have over 4,000 photos in my iPhoto album. There's never a need for a day to devoid of something fun–whether it be actual events or photos of them. Keep reminding yourself just how precious life and LIVING really is.
Get out there and ENJOY!
©2009 Kurt Holdorf, story and photo
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