Thanks so much!!
I was going to respond to each of the comments to my last 365 post, but there were so many congratulations that it soon became overwhelming to even contemplate! Thanks so much. I really enjoyed the project, even if it was a lot of work, and made every evening an exercise in discipline.
Super huge thanks to the team of reader/scientist/naturalists who kept me accurate, thorough, and helped me identify many of the tough plants and bugs.
Special thanks to cottonmanifesto, who joined in on the project willingly, even though I didn't warn her that I was going to do it a year ago today (really!), I just kind of started it on a whim. Her eye for natural beauty, her ability to find the most interesting part of the most commonplace object, and her talent with the camera make her the best partner I could have asked for on this project. Her amazing dedication, as a partner and a long-suffering but never complaining wife, put me in reverent awe. She never asked for this project, but she made it so much better than it would have been.
I'll try to continue to write an interesting blog, even if I don't have a rigid daily format. I'm still fascinated by the same things, and now I know much more about the living things around me than I did a year ago.
I should remind readers that there's a community called urban_nature that will hold to the subject of urban nature much more closely than I will. I'll still go off on tangents about animal usage, captive animal enrichment, environmental issues, how much I hate the snow, the goings on at my job, and for those of you on my friends list who should play Wonder Woman, and what muppet I most resemble (a cross between kermit and animal).
I'm happy that you liked the 365 project! I did too. Maybe the next thing will be even better. :)
Super huge thanks to the team of reader/scientist/naturalists who kept me accurate, thorough, and helped me identify many of the tough plants and bugs.
Special thanks to cottonmanifesto, who joined in on the project willingly, even though I didn't warn her that I was going to do it a year ago today (really!), I just kind of started it on a whim. Her eye for natural beauty, her ability to find the most interesting part of the most commonplace object, and her talent with the camera make her the best partner I could have asked for on this project. Her amazing dedication, as a partner and a long-suffering but never complaining wife, put me in reverent awe. She never asked for this project, but she made it so much better than it would have been.
I'll try to continue to write an interesting blog, even if I don't have a rigid daily format. I'm still fascinated by the same things, and now I know much more about the living things around me than I did a year ago.
I should remind readers that there's a community called urban_nature that will hold to the subject of urban nature much more closely than I will. I'll still go off on tangents about animal usage, captive animal enrichment, environmental issues, how much I hate the snow, the goings on at my job, and for those of you on my friends list who should play Wonder Woman, and what muppet I most resemble (a cross between kermit and animal).
I'm happy that you liked the 365 project! I did too. Maybe the next thing will be even better. :)