Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today. ~ Meredith Willson, The Music Man
My camera arrived home last week and I immediately broke in the new lens by (what else?) taking pictures of the dogs:
Shortly after the camera returned the dogs and I went hiking. Here are my favorite pictures (and video) from that trip:
Have you ever tried to pose a dog in front of a waterfall? It’s quite amusing (“Sit. Stay. Look pretty. Good girl. No, stay. Don’t look at the waterfall. Good girl. Stay there. Look at me. Good girl”).
The entire photo/video set is here.
I have been on a sock knitting kick for months now and lately I’ve stopped being monogamous and have been spreading my sock love around. (I guess you could say I’m a sock knitting hussy.)
These three pairs of socks are being knit from yarn that I dyed:
This pair is from a sock blank I received in a swap:
I am test knitting this pattern for the designer (isn’t it fantastic?):
I also have a blanket freshly on the needles:
I was absolutely overwhelmed and a little gobsmacked at the comments and emails that encouraged me to continue with my photo-a-day project. Thank you so much for your kind words and the inspiration to continue. I really appreciate it and you almost talked me into continuing the project. However, I have decided not to continue the project.
I enjoyed taking a lot of photos and I did learn a lot in the short time that I took a picture every day. However, the bottom line is that the commitment the project required ended up sucking a lot of fun out of both blogging and photography. I had many days where I happily snapped a ton of pictures. But, I also had more than a few days where I absolutely didn’t feel like taking a single picture and did not enjoy the process at all.
The project did teach me something, though. Before the project I always had pictures I wanted to toss up on the blog, but I felt like if I posted a picture I needed to do a whole blog post about it and sometimes I just don’t feel like talking (seriously). This project taught me that I can just post a picture and people will find it interesting.
So, moving forward I will sometimes do a ‘proper’ blog post and sometimes I’ll just post pictures that I’ve taken.
But, before we move forward, I’m going to look back for a moment. I went through all of my photos of the day and these are my favorites:
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ~ John Constable
My 365 project has come to a screeching halt.
Shortly after taking yesterday’s photo, my camera broke. Thankfully, it’s under warranty. Not so thankfully, the warranty repair center is halfway across the country.
This afternoon I packed up my beloved camera, insured the hell out of it and sent it on its way.
I made it 139 days. Some of the days were a lot of fun and some were agony. I learned a lot, but I’m not sure I like being obligated to produce a picture each day. During the time my camera is in the hospital I’m going to figure out whether or not to continue this project for the remaining 226 days.
I definitely need to sleep on it.
