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Cynthia sighed as she walked around the park, trying to get a good picture. It was finally February, which meant that spring was practically around the corner, and trees would be in bloom and flowers would be appearing and the land would become green again! Much better than the winter they had to keep going through. Currently, she was wearing some jeans and a nice coat with a sweater underneath, walking around, trying to see if she could get any nice pictures surrounded by all of the naked trees that littered the park.

She missed Louisiana, where they rarely if ever got that much snow and it was usually warmer than here. But it's not like she could say 'hey dad, how about you not move someplace that will help us as a family and is better in your career path?', that would have been selfish of her. And so she had to endure the annoying winter that came around, and swearing every year to herself that she would move somewhere near the equator.

She was interrupted from her thoughts though, as she saw a cute, very red cardinal on the ground, picking at the bottom of a tree a bit away from her. Instantly Cynthia whipped out her camera, trying to get a picture of it, and immediately entering a tunnel-vision state where she could only tell what was going on through her lens, and nothing else.

The cardinal hopped around on the ground a bit, and so Cynthia had to readjust her lens a couple of times, until the cardinal finally decided to stay still for 10 seconds and Cynthia was able to snap a couple of pictures. She took her head out of the lens, smiling, glad that she had gotten a few photos of it. At least the might be able to post them on her photography group, though it wasn't nearly the type of picture that she usually wanted to take.

It was then that she noticed a guy who seemed to be... avoiding her? Why? Then she thought about it. He must have thought she was going to take a picture of him! She tried to hide her laughter, but made sure to call out to him, "I wasn't taking a picture of you! I was taking a picture of that cardinal near the tree." She said, pointing at where it had been. "Don't worry, I didn't get you!"

The cardinal was no longer there, and Cynthia sighed. For a moment she got some decent pictures in, but the true beauty would have to wait until Spring finally came, and she could take pictures of all of the life finally returning to the plants outside and all of the insects and animals that came with it.

She was looking at the pictures, when she realized that the man was still talking to her. She yelled back, "Yeah it's digital!" She couldn't afford to be a camera snob and getting one that used film still. And besides, digital pictures were perfectly fine in her opinion. She heard that he wanted to see it, she shrugged and walked over to him, making sure that he would be able to see the pics in her camera. She doubted he would just run off with it, after all she had a tracker on it just in case of such an event. She figured he was most likely camera shy and just wanted to make sure that he wasn't in any of her pictures. She understood that feeling, which is why she tried to make sure people weren't in her pictures when she took them.

She walked over to him, looking through the pictures a bit, before sighing at one. "Aww man, I took a picture of it's butt in one of these..." She said, slightly mumbling as she showed him the pictures. Sure, it was a feathery covered butt, but a butt all the same.

Cynthia smiled at him. She was glad that he seemed to be trustworthy. Though she giggled at his advice. "Pictures wouldn't be nearly as neat if we could get all of the animals to hold a pose." Though if someone really wanted to capture a certain pose, she would always suggested recording a video of it and getting a picture from that later. However, her camera couldn't do it of course, so she could only stick to still frames.

She nodded at him, glad that she had taken at least one picture that seemed to gain the approval of a random stranger. "Well, at least I got one good shot in all of this surrounding hibernation and tree nakedness. I can't wait until spring when I can finally get some nice flower shots and we have more green around here than just the pine trees." It drover her crazy sometimes. She really thought of leaving everything sometimes and just going to live on some island on the equator where it didn't snow.

It seemed that the stranger was satisfied that he hadn't accidentally been caught in any pictures, and Cynthia put the camera away after covering the lens. She wanted to stay out longer, but didn't think she would get any other good pictures unless it was of something like a squirrel.

Cynthia had to agree with him, the weather made the ground plenty awful. She had ruined a few pairs of boots due to mud stains because the ground was still icy at parts and muddy at others. It just needed to make up it's mind already! At least rain if it was going to be muddy!

She shook her head in response to his questions. "Not really. I mean, I do take some landscape ones, but it's kind of hard you know? Like I think the best are the ones where you can capture freshly fallen snow where there are no footprints or even hints of people living there. But that's usually pretty hard in the city. Even if you go to the parks or the outskirts of it, there's usually someone who's already trampled through it. I try not to take pictures of people. I think it's kind of weird to do so of random people I don't know. Which is why I stick to landscapes and stuff." It was true, she really didn't like to take pictures of strangers. It felt like such an invasion of privacy.

She shrugged her camera bag back onto her shoulder, re-adjusting it and once again wishing she just had a small backpack for it. She smiled at him. "Well, I need to get going, see if anything else is out there or go and get a hot chocolate because it's still winter. I'm headed over to the corner cafe if you want to talk a bit more. Otherwise, it was nice to meet you uh... what's your name? If you don't mind me asking of course. I'm Cynthia by the way." She said, holding her hand out for a shake, though she wouldn't be put-off if he decided not to return the gesture.

Cynthia gave him a sly smile. "You wouldn't believe how many times I go to the state parks around here." Too much in her parents eyes, but she was going even more now to check out camping spots so she and her boyfriend could finally take that camping trip that they wanted.

She shook his hand, glad the he was okay with the gesture. "It's nice to meet you too! And yeah, that would be interesting, would just have to wait until it's not as crowded though!" She said, laughing a bit. Though really, she swore that half of the cafes around here just looked slightly above never having been cleaned before. She was sure there were layers of dust caked to the walls. Restaurants really needed to take more pride in how they looked.

Suddenly though, she got a text, and she quickly looked at her phone, recognizing the name and the message and whoops! Looks like she had already promised Jason to meet him at the cafe! She quickly cursed to herself in her head before looking back at Ignacio. "Well Ignacio, it was nice to meet you, really, but unfortunately I have a cafe meeting to get to that I forgot about! So I need to go now but maybe we'll bump into each other sometime!" She said quickly, and turning around, but not before turning back to him and waving. "See ya!" And with that she was sprinting to where she needed to go.