Day 30 - My 365, How do you measure a year?

Day 30:

Monday, November 14, 2010

More DC.  More meeting.  All good stuff.  

Today, we stumbled upon these funny little bug things in a garden.  More weird than cute really.  

And then a photo shoot with a motel room key... Yep, there are places out there that still have keys like this!  They are motor inn motel type places - sketch.  Who knows why my buddy Bryan picked this place for his hotel but it definitely makes for good stories!

Day 29 - My 365, How do you measure a year?

Day 29:

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Swanson Lab party - past and present.  Kicked off with happy hour in a hotel room.  

This is how it is done.

Fun!

Day 28 - My 365, How do you measure a year?

Day 28:
Saturday, November 12, 2011

I'm in DC, a city I absolutely love!  I'm here for a work conference and so far it has been good.  Good to learn.  Good to see some old friends.  Good to think and plan for the future.

I haven't felt like lugging my super heavy camera around the meeting all day because I've been lugging my super heavy laptop.  That leaves boring pictures.  Maybe tomorrow, I'll leave the laptop in favor of the camera and then sneak away to see a few sites.

This room is really small.  Cute, but small.  At least I have a swipe key (haha, my friend is in a cheap hotel in the city with a key on a keychain)!

My view... wish it was warm enough to get in the pool!

One of the intentions of this project is to practice photography.  Get better.  Think outside the box, push the limit, look at things from new points of view.

Sometimes though, it's just a documentation of my life it seems.

Either way, time is flying.  I can't believe I'm four weeks in.  Who knows where the rest of this year will take me.  The possibilities are exciting!

Day 27 - My 365, How do you measure a year?

Day 27:
Friday, November 11, 2011 (11.11.11, woo!)
Still one day behind on the posts... ;)

30,000 feet in the air.

I love looking out over the world from the plane.  It's such an expansive point of view.  And it reminds me that we are all connected.  We are all just a small part of something so much bigger.  There is life all around us.

It makes me think of an Alanis Morissette song - 'I am a citizen of the planet, my frontier is on an airplane...'

It's true.  I am a part of a community but am a citizen of the planet.  If everything is connected, then how can I make sure that I pay it forward?  Kindness should flow through, from one community to the next.  Helping others should flow through.  Taking care of the environment should flow through.  We each have a role.  We each have responsibility.

If I'm a citizen of the planet, I want to be a good one.

Day 25 and 26, My 365 - How do you measure a year?

Days 25 and 26

Wednesday, November 9 and Thursday, November 10, 2011

I'm behind.  

Absolutely an insane week.  Not a bad week necessarily but busy.  Very busy.  

I still took my pictures just no posts.  

I've had a lot going on, lots to think about.  Lots to work on.  I'm enjoying the process.  But I am ready for a little bit of a slow down.  I'm about a month away from that slow down when my first semester of teaching undergrad biology will come to an end.  

So, day 25... Wednesday.  

My Michigan holly, from the farmer's market several weeks ago.  Love it.  Isn't it great?  

Day 26... packing.  Sigh.  

I. hate. packing.  I am the worst kind.  An over packer.  Ugh.

Day 24 - My 365, How do you measure a year?

Day 24:
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Can't seem to keep track of what day it is lately...  All day today I thought it was Thursday.  And I still keep typing October for the month.  Geez.

Am I stuck in some sort of strange time warp?

My little Christmas cactus knows that winter is coming.  It's blooming!

Love!

Day 23 - My 365, How do you measure a year?

Day 23:
Monday, November 7, 2011

Who likes Mondays?

I was especially reluctant this morning because of a case of Sunday-night-insomnia.  Talk about a rough way to start a week!

Week 3 of my 365 project.  A lot of times I try to think of something creative or something striking about the day.  Or just a different way of looking at the same old things.  It's harder than you think.

Sometimes it is good to take a step back and look at the same old stuff with fresh eyes and new perspective.  Maybe that way we can really be open to new experiences and new opinions.  Maybe that way we can learn to really be accepting.  I'm thinking a lot lately about being open and accepting.  I'm trying to incorporate openness into my daily life.  I'm trying to practice acceptance.  It all takes time, doesn't it?  It seems like the one extra hour I was so infatuated with the other day is just not enough for all that I dream of doing!

Today... the same old thing from a different view.

The picture is kind of blah, but I like the shadow and the shifting focus...