If you didn't, then please go back and SING my headline!

Thanks for stopping by and taking some of your valuable time to read my profile.
I am an intelligent, witty, word-lover who gets excited by a well written profile. Taking the time to make it right says a lot about a person. I love photography, and am getting better all the time. I can be found at the botanic garden or one of the gazillion forest preserves looking ... or lurking, as the case might be... for my next subject! Singing is therapeutic for me so, I can be seen doing some karaoke occasionally. I'm getting better at that too. I am a life-long learner and always enjoy new information, which feeds my curious nature. Loving, passionate, optimistic & appropriately silly are some other descriptors that would fit. Oh, and gentlemen,

I'm not a model. I'm a real woman.
I am looking for an intelligent, confident, well adjusted man who has staying power in conversation, relationship and elsewhere.

It's also important that you have interests that we can share as well as interests of your own. I like some alone time (not excessive) & would like a man who is comfortable enough in his own skin that he can handle that. He should also have a circle of friends of his own, as I do. I'll introduce you to mine and you can introduce me to yours!
In a nutshell, I want the last great love/lust/partner of my life in a passionate "no holds barred" way!
PS: I'm a church-going atheist.
A perfect first date would be an agreement to meet in a public place (gotta be a safety girl!) for a drink, coffee or ice-cream. Then, if it were PERFECT, the conversation would be easy, excited and unstoppable. Perhaps hours would go by and we'd realize that we were hungry and move to a nice restaurant for more conversation and mutual discovery. The date may or may not end with a kiss, depending on what we learned about one another and the level of chemistry we feel. In fact, it might just be fun to keep the "tension" high until the second date.... which would be solidified before we said "Goodnight" from the first one! :) If all this happens, I will know unequivocally that there is relationship potential. (Ahh.... if only it were always this clear. Hey! A girl can dream! Can't she?)