So I can’t seem to get this idea of project 365 out of my head, even though I have tried it twice before and both times I stopped a small while into it. If you re not already familiar with p365, it’s a project that I found on Flickr (where I host the bulk of my pictures) where you take a picture everyday for a year, and share them online. There is a slew and ever growing number of people that participate in it, with a great range from snapshots, to amateur, to proffesional photographers. I’d like to think I am of the ’snapshot to amateur’ photography range. I really admire professional photography, and I really enjoy tinkering around with my camera, so I suppose more accurately I am a ’snapshot photographer with a dream’ And so p365 is a great way to go through my day exercising a little bit of a photographer’s eye, while at the same time getting an opportunity to play a little with my camera settings, while hopefully growing more comfortable with the lesser known settings.

I’d really like to succeed in at least one run of p365, but I need to find a way to keep me motivated. And I think I’ve got it figured out. I am going to try to set a ‘theme’ for each week. For instance this week1, the theme will be ’school’, conveniently enough as my son is starting kindergarten. I’d love to have your help in picking out themes for the remaining 51 weeks in the next 365 days. And themes can be anything really as I am planning on keeping my interpretations of the themes fairly loose. So it can be a feeling, a thing, a color, a word, a book, a country, an animal, an object, a season, a name, a concept, absolutely anything at all. I’d really love it if you gave me a theme (or 2 or 9) to help me keep motivated with keeping the p365 going, and help me by switching it up every week. Comment below to tell me your theme suggestion(s)

I am going to be keeping all my 365 pictures on a separate page this time around, see here if you want. Or for all old and current attempts, see the flickr folder.

I can not believe it’s been over a year since we moved to this house and it’s taken me that long to finally start to garden again. If you know me even a little you are probably aware that I absolutely love to garden. So it’s pretty crazy that up until a few weeks ago the only plants I owned were a few in pots by the front steps, and a handful indoor ones.

Finally I couldn’t take it anymore and in July, despite the ridiculous summer heat, I grabbed a shovel and went to work on a shady spot in one of the back corners of our back yard. After much sweat, blisters, and inspiring hard work from my 5-year-old I finally have a little something I can officially call a garden again! Though it’s pretty bare still I can not tell you how much excitement it brings me to be able to go into my backyard to water my little garden.

This time I am also making an active attempt to harvest seeds from my own flowers, and veggies and fruits I have bought locally. I have no idea how good seeds harvested by yours truly will grow in the spring, but I won’t know until I try will I?