Hello to all my former 365 Project friends and new friends I hope to make this year. After almost two years of hiatus I am resuming my photographic efforts.
So to catch up -- my project went from January 1 2016 to February 2019 at which point I embarked on a major house renovation project that I expected to only last a few months and ended up lasting a year with alot of frustration and angst along the way. I moved out of my house to an apartment and with this project, work, and a few other things, this really got in the way of my discipline forcing me to abandon something I really loved -- photography and the joy of discovering the world around me through the camera lens. 2019 flew by before I knew it and I thought "well I'll just start again in 2020. (LOL):.
2020 arrived and I was still in the apartment tearing my hair out about this project that seemed neverending . . . and then COVID/shutdown/more anxiety and the camera never really got off the shelf. California was on shutdown starting in March and fortunately movers were considered "essential" and still working so we were back in the house by Easter. Working from home made unpacking easier (if it in any way could be considered easy unpacking a whole house of furnishings -- amazing what you accumulate over 35 years and then choose to pay to store ??) .
Granted 2020 would probably have been a GREAT year to chronicle in 365 Project but I didn't really have it in me (including some non-COVID related health problems) so good intentions went wanting. During the year, we cancelled travel plans, celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary (planned a trip to France but ended up toasting with Champagne in the back yard), our son got married (small ceremony, social distance, etc), adopted two cats (they will figure prominently in future pictures), avoided all social activities, and weathered the ongoing struggles of working by Zoom, trying to actually get myself out of the house day to day, keeping in touch with family and friends, and avoiding everyone at the grocery store.
Fortunately, we are blessed that COVID and the resulting economic distress have not visited our door (we isolate pretty well) and we and ours are healthy and grateful. Now that we have enjoyed a different kind of Christmas and New Years, I am ready to go once more into the breach and get my camera to work.
Hope you are all well -- I am looking forward to reconnecting!
Oh,and to the picture. It has been a dreadfully dry winter here so after our first big gullywasher storm last week, mushrooms spung up on this dead stump in the back yard. A good a place to start as any.
See previous Get Pushed Challenges below
Looking to return in 2023
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