Wow! This week is clearly a catch-up week for me. I got sick with the flu, and with the malaise and the recuperation, I haven’t been posting my 365 photos to Flickr or this blog for a few weeks. I still didn’t skip a day taking photos, even through the illness! But some of these are lacking in inspiration. I am really looking forward to the days growing longer in the coming months, because I’m exhausting my energy for night photos and indoor shots of things around my house. I need to branch out a little!

89/365:  Several inches of snow fell overnight, and my dog ran out first thing in the morning.  These tracks (complete with little loop-de-loop) were the first ones she made as she started her ‘perimeter check’ of the yard.  I love that she clearly changed her mind or caught a smell or there was some reason that this is what she did, and I am happy that I grabbed my camera.

90/365: I was going for a little 70s style here with the colors and the wood.  My kitchen has a 70s vibe even though it was built in the 1990s, and I like it.

91/365: This is a pretty swirly colorful bowl that I got for my birthday a few years ago.

92/365: The snow stuck around for a few days because the temperatures were very low.  I went for a walk at the Pinnacles Youth Area (north of Columbia, Missouri) and was greeted by some amazing icicles along the edge of this rock shelter.  So cool!  It looked like teeth.

93/365: This is a fountain in downtown Columbia.  The temperatures were very low, and an ice shell formed around the fountain, which was lit from below by a flood lamp.  It was really cool looking but hard to photograph.  This is my favorite shot of the attempts that I made.

94/365: One of my Christmas presents, a vintage plastic Beacon II camera.  It came with a leather case and a flash unit.  I don’t know if it works but it’s pretty cool.

95/365: This is a close-up photos of a blue shag pillow that I have that I love.  I like how this turned out.

96/365: Another cutting board shot, this time with an apple.  This is where I started getting sick, so the photos for the next few days got a little bit boring.

97/365: I set up this shot because I thought the pills would look pretty neat with backlighting, but I didn’t realize until I was processing the image that the water was not level in the glass.  I also wish that I’d chosen a better cloth color for the table.  I thought it would pop with the NyQuil, but it doesn’t really work very well.

98/365: I’m not sure what I was thinking.  I wanted to shoot something in the house, but inspiration had run out.  I liked the idea of a pattern with the toilet paper rolls, and the way the light would drop off between sounded interesting, but I didn’t pull it off here.  Oh well.  I was sick.

99/365: I was out late and came home through the fog, and took this photo just a few minutes before midnight.  This is the streetlight outside my house through the branches of a dogwood tree.  We had several days of fog after this, and I was really enchanted with the way the streetlights looked at night.

100/365:  100 days of pictures and I only missed one!  It was a foggy morning and I went to Capen Park to take some photos from this bluff, since I thought the perspective with the distance would make the fog work in the photo better.  Hmm.  I’m not sure this is the best shot from that day, but I like the expanse of this rock.  I should have gotten lower to the rock, I think.  I’m overthinking this.

101/365: I’m cat-sitting for my aunt, and this is one of her two orange marmalade tabby cats.  They are identical except in personality.  This one is far more outgoing than his brother.  I like his yellow eyes.

102/365: Streetlights outside my house in the mist.  I didn’t brighten this enough for it to work the way I wanted, but I still like the way the mist makes the streetlights look at night.

103/365: Self-portrait!  I bought some new glasses and wanted to post a picture of them because they’re weird and silly.

104/365: My friend is an obsessive tennis lover, and I had my camera stuff at his house so I took this picture of his hopper filled with tennis balls.  I like the colors.

105/365: This is a redo of a photo I took earlier in this 365 project.  It was kind of a throwaway photo, but other people really liked it.  I wanted to do it again when there would be some reflection on the street from the rain, so I went out to do this picture in the rain.

106/365: A photo of my house with some dramatic sunset clouds.  I reprocessed this photo a couple of times and I’m still not happy with it.  The problem with the 365 is that it happens *every day* and it’s hard to be creative every day.  But that’s the point of the project, to exercise my creativity even when it’s hard!  But that’s also my excuse because I’m not happy with this image because I didn’t take enough time to get it right.  Ugh.

107/365: Another bowl in my house.  I have a lot of clay things, like bowls and mugs and pitchers and vases.  This one is really well-made and I like the little swirl at the bottom of it.