Here is another photo taken on my adventures last weekend. We went to the Stony Swamp Conservation Area just outside of Ottawa. My mood at the time was bleak, as I was certain I had failed my exams and would be wasting another year preparing to retake them. I was especially drawn to the sad desolation of these skeleton trees.

I crept around a bit trying to get a few different perspectives on the trees, but my mobility was limited by the fact that I was ankle-deep in a bog (hence the name Stony Swamp, I guess). When I got home, I tried everything in my power to crop out the leaves in the left side of the photo. No matter what I tried, I wasn't able to crop them without cutting off the branches of the tree on the left, or seriously unbalancing the photo.

I actually found it a bit humorous... Into the bleakest of bad situations, there creeps a little optimism.