back!
- Mee and sunflare
- Mee laughing in the sun
- Us Hawt/Silly Youth Workers
Have you ever felt like you fell off the face of the earth?
Well since the earth is round, if I jumped I would probably land on Europe, or so it seems. It feels like I have fallen away from the Photography World, and I have been away for so long. Far too long for Mee…but ready to come back in a different way…
Ready for my explanation? August 2008 came with a pretty incredible move for Mee to Cold Lake, Alberta that brought the best year of my married life, family life, adult life and so on… so far! I had some of my own plans for what was to “go down” once I got to Cold Lake, but thankfully my ideas were put on the back burner for a little while!
I was ready to open up my own photo studio and run run run. I was so excited, had the support, encouragement, backing, and the actual facts in front of me, of everything going to play out very nicely. And then it happened! I became involved in a local church that we got plugged into and was asked to come on board as an Administrative PR person. At first I was really hesitant and I think I even said “no!” since I was so focused in my Photography path. But then I started seeing things from a different point of view and re-thought everything through. My “no” then turned into an immediate “yes, when can I start!?”
The Adventure began almost 6 months to this day ago, when I jumped in and got my feet wet on the way. The awesome thing, which was also the “different point of view” and the changer of my mind, was that this Church was no ordinary Church! So over the course of months and months of pure joy, I was exposed to some quite amazing Art Forms. I can now say that I have worked with a state of the art: music equipment, have dived into working with an amazing Music Team, gotten recorded, sounding pretty swell with everyone’s hard work put together, and that is just the music side of things! That’s not to mention the AMAZING people I have gotten to know, laugh with, cry with, find purpose with, and not include the Video/editing/slideshow/brochures/graphic design/advertisement experience/special event planning for large and small groups, that I have gotten in on along the way!
And since this is starting to read like a resume, I’ll stop. But let’s just say that I got so exposed to so much Art stuff that I LOVED, my creative side just went wild! My house turned into a pallet of white walls and bursts of colors everywhere in my decor, My children started being dressed like colorful rock stars, My clothes were no longer white and black but now my closet got some color adventure added to it, I bought all kinds of flower plants that are successfully blooming (ok only because my daughter reminds me they need sun and water) My husband couldn’t figure out what to do with my passion and joy (ok maybe he couldn’t ever figure out what to do with that part, but now it is even more evident!) And it just seems like somehow, somewhere along the line I Woke Up.
I woke up to creativity, Love, Music, Art, and of course again to photography. So I am now on a new adventure…really wanting to share the arts with all of Cold Lake and all of Alberta, by being true to myself as an artist, with photography, with light, color and passion; and by helping other people see in them selves the love and joy that I have recently re-found. We will see where this new road takes us, hopefully by some Art’s Department in Cold Lake…
But for now I just wanted to write and say I am back!
There is so much to share, hopefully we can come back and share more…
Cheerio
-Melissa E Earle
PS Love Live and Laugh often…don’t ever forget to find joy around you



































