They say nothing in life is free...they're right.

I just went through an experience so vexing, I have to blog about it, even if I am trying to maintain a decent level of positivity in this blog.

I'm putting together a brochure for my youth leadership/employment program.  I was (finally!) given the green light to rename the program to

Adolescents
Learning
Professional
Skills
(ALPS)

so to Google I went to look for some attention grabbing stock images of mountains and mountain climbers to punch up said brochure.

...do you know how LONG it took me to find ANYTHING that didn't require signing my life away, or paying a king's ransom (not even exaggerating) to use ONE picture?  ONE!!  ONE!!!!!!

I'm in non-profit here, people...I don't have hundreds (!!) of dollars to spend on pictures!

Now I'm not saying that photographers don't deserve something in return for their work...but for goodness sake, if I give you 501 (c)(3) documentation, don't you think you could do me a solid and just let me use A photo for my tiny little program?

THANKFULLY, after a looooooooot of searching, I FINALLY found https://unsplash.com/ which has nice big photos of various things...granted, I had to scroll

For. 
Ev. 
Er. 

to find a picture that was even remotely relevant.

BUT IT WAS FREE SO IT'S OKAY.

At some point, I have a blog about football and female consumerism, but since I found my "needle in the haystack" picture, it's time to write some copy.