Day 365 Can it really be?

Is this year really over? I will have to post my reflections on this project later. My end of the year is too busy to get the thoughts in any kind of order. This photo pretty much sums up my year, though. The Year of the Camera.

Day 364 Rain!!

It's been a long time since we've needed an umbrella in these parts!

Days 362-363

The project continues...New eyes to see (although I'm not yet too sure that's what the new glasses provide...)

Day 361 Ever wonder what lives in chair seams?

Yuck.
And on second thought...how interesting. Just think what all that dust (?) represents. Twenty-five years of living. If I could analyze it, I'd find pieces and parts of family and friends all through the years. Dinners. Parties. Discussions. Projects. Pets. A snapshot of all my life is in that...yucky stuff!

Day 360 An elf is busy in my living room

Day 359 Merry Christmas

Christmas was a calm, peaceful day this year.

Good food, good friend, calls to family, a nice nap, A Christmas Carol...

Day 358 Christmas Eve

An early gift.......thinking on the nativity

...baking

...and enjoying "after midnight mass" hot chocolate. Merry Christmas!

Day 357 Chair surgery

Who is that hidden man?Chair innards

Tools a dentist uses to restore a chair

New parts...

...to replace old (OLD) parts

Day 356 Saturday

Christmas Dinner

# 1...

...and #2!

Day 355 The Daughter

Tasting....Exercising....

Modeling (an $11 dress!)...

Reading...

And opening gifts!

Day 354 Have you had one?

I didn't know they existed before tonight. That was probably a good thing.

Day 353 Angel Dance

Day 352 Tuesday

The animals rest peacefully under my tree. Last night a wayward angel crashed from the tree, knocking over both a shepherd and a wise man, but the animals were not distressed.

Day 351 Finally...

This little guy's spent the last several Christmas seasons packed away with the rest of my ornaments. The memories seem possible to handle this year.

Day 350 Sunday

An added bonus to the birthday trip---saw my son!

Day 349 Saturday's Birthday Bash

My niece--the birthday girl

Day 348 Friday

This was really taken on Saturday, but it is what I needed more than anything in the world on Friday!! It was that kind of day.

Day 347 Thursday

Supplies

Day 346 Wednesday

Look what I found on my camera today! The last photos before saying good-bye to the family!
(I'm playing catch-up; keep scrolling for my attempt to capture "home" before it's bulldozed.)

Day 345 Tuesday

I'm back in Charlotte...sort of. I'm sitting here looking at the photos from this weekend and feeling desperate to capture the essence of my childhood homeplace before it is gone. My siblings could all take one look at this photo and burst out laughing. This little building was once our wash house, where the washer and dryer lived. It is the focal point of one of our family's funniest stories....but the story itself depends on which family member tells it.

Day 344 Monday

This tree in my childhood back yard never ceases to amaze me. It was big 35 years ago. It's gigantic now.
The trees of my life.

Signs of change. My uncle's land is sold. The old "lane" is inaccessible to us, and a new one cut. How can this change?

Day 343 Sunday

Sunday I walked with my mother and nephew. It's amazing what time does. When I was young, the woods and hills and trees looked so different! It is the same place, but not the same. First it completely grew over, sort of like in Sleeping Beauty, but now some of it has been bulldozed to clear the undergrowth and expose the property lines...in preparation for selling the land. The woods, the hills, the pastures will all most likely become a subdivision.

The might stalking cat, Blue, followed us everywhere. Apparently he goes wherever my nephew goes. Certainly he tramped the hills and dales with us.

Day 342 Saturday

Decorating the tree?

Day 341 On the Road Again

My traveling companion

Day 340 Thursday

Birthday Reflection