Making the Weekend a Priority

“Never find fault with the absent.” – Alexander Pope

With school starting back soon, I know life is getting ready to get busier for us. From my wife and I going back to work to the kids heading back to the classroom. The slow days of summer will be over. I will need to make sure I make rest and my hobbies a priority. Before school starts, I make a schedule. It outlines what I will do each day. Teaching a take home job. I accept that, but I do not allow work to consume me every day. I have two to three days a week to work from home. I prefer to come home and work as opposed to staying at school after hours. On the other days, I make family and my hobbies a priority. I try to get out and practice photography once a week. It might be on a bike ride or riding my bike through town. I have also started to make reading a priority. My goal will be to make sure I read every evening before I go to sleep. I want to make sure I am spending time with family. I want to spend time with them. I aim to ensure that we keep up with each other. My goal this school year is to make the weekend a priority.

One of my favorite things to do on the weekend is ride my bike through Charlotte, North Carolina. The route I take has the market just a little past the halfway point of my ride. This puts me in the perfect spot to take a rest and enjoy being outside. Lately, I have been practicing street photography around Charlotte. I have taken a lot of photos around the area. Most scenes around town don’t change that much, but there are always different people each time I go somewhere. Here are some of the shots I was able to capture during my bike ride last Saturday.