Project 365: Days 6 & 7

Today's photo is as close as I could get to the wildfires near Boulder (not as close as the Deac, who is there helping to fighting the largest one even as I type this):
I chose that one as my photo of the day, but it was a toss-up between that one and one I took earlier (before sunset) on my drive home:
Yesterday found me having a hard time getting inspired to find something to photograph. Finally, I settled for this one:
This photo is only slightly better than the first one I had thought to use (a photo of the logo/box in which arrived our calzones for dinner), but it will do. The Deac got a new book and kept insisting on reading passages to me. I'm pretty sure Ann Coulter is on his "List" (remember that "Friends" episode?)

Project 365: Day 5

In today's photo, Maura watches from the sidelines as her sister demonstrates a roundhouse kick to Sensei and the rest of her karate class. Next week Maura is starting karate herself, so this might be the last time she's on the sidelines for a while.

In other news, please keep my friend Michele in your prayers. She found a breast lump just 12 days ago, on Christmas day and has since been diagnosed with cancer in 2 spots. Surgery (radical mastectomy) tomorrow. Do your self-exams!

Project 365: Day 4

It was difficult to find a photo for today. Not because we didn't do anything photo-worthy. I think everything is photo-worthy at some level. But, because I didn't really like any of the photos I took. At the end of the day I had it narrowed down to 3 photos - one of Emmelia writing a thank-you note for Christmas, one of the stuffed bell peppers we had for dinner, and this one (which is obviously the one I decided to go with):
Because today, as we do most weekend days, we cleaned up and organized the house a bit and enlisted the help of our iRobot Roomba in the kitchen.

Today we took the girls to Pizza Hut for lunch and redeemed two of Emmelia's free pizza coupons for the "Book It!" program she participates in through school. If you read 20 books in a month, you get a coupon for a free personal pan pizza. The girls both chose sausage for their topping and the Deac and I tried the new "natural' pizza with a multigrain crust - not bad, for Pizza Hut pizza.

2009 Project 365

Wow, it's been nearly a year. I have decided to participate in Project 365 this year - the idea is to take one photo per day for a whole year (related to this project, one could do Project 52 and take one photo per week). It's supposed to help you get more in tune with your camera and develop better photography and life-documenting skills. I'm excited about it and needed someplace to share my photos. This is as good a spot as any, I think!

Here's my photo for today:
I had today off and took the kids to daycare so I could enjoy some kid-free time. I decided to go see a non-animated movie to myself! One of the thoughts I had for this project was to take my camera with me to the movie theatre to see "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - and take a photo of the movie poster or the popcorn or something else movie-related. But, I forgot my camera and I also think businesses frown upon people taking photos like that. Then it came to me - the fun collection of buttons my mother put together and gave the kids for Christmas - perfect for both remembering the movie and documenting a fun Christmas memory.

And here is my first photo for the year, documenting the new webcam I purchased and set-up and used to make my first video IM to a friend:
It's not the greatest photo, but I am looking at this more as an exercise in life documentation. If my photography skills get better in the process, then that is a nice side effect.

I hope you enjoy the photos this year!