Jump Rope for Heart

I had great plans of getting fantastic photojournal-ish type photos of the American Heat Association Jump Rope for Heart event and Blood Drive at Thomas Hart.  Not only for my blog, but perhaps the Hartsville Messenger.  I even thought about submitting something to the State, a lofty aspiration, but why not?  This was a huge event in honor of my Mary Clare, and McCanless had such a great time keeping up with all of the very generous donations for her cause.   Surely everyone would want to know about it.  Right?  Then I realized that I would have to do two things:  1) find time to write articles and 2) photo willing subjects.  Neither of which would happen.

McCanless refused to even face my camera to show off her cute double-dutch worthy attire.

And Mary Clare, although perfectly content on every single middle school girl’s hip, wouldn’t dare smile.  Not even once for my camera.

She even broke down in the middle of the gym floor because she wanted a “pink snow cone, not a green one.”

It probably didn’t help matters when I gave blood, just as I have so, so many times before, immediately before the Jump Rope event.  The event that was held way out on the soccer field in the 95 degree , hot and humid SC spring weather.  I gave blood, boastfully sat for a mere minute, grabbed Mary Clare and headed out to the field with my Nikon. I sat down on the bleachers and passed Mary Clare on to a few students and blacked out.   So instead of taking photos, I stared out into space.  Literally.  Needless to say I didn’t get my award winning photojournalistic shots I originally hoped for, but we had a wonderful event to spread awareness for the American Heart Assocation and even beat our last year’s record for pints of blood donated!   Way to go, THA!