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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
~ Winston Churchill
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: The End
Well? This is it. 365 pictures in as many days. My Sony Cyber-shot, 7.2 mega pixel, 4x optical zoom point and shoot camera took me places I never expected to go this year.
In my world, project 365 is like any other blog. People decide to take it on for many reasons. For some it's posting a years worth of pictures straight from the camera. For others it's a weekly theme, uploaded to flicker on a designated day. And still others participate to show that they can make a commitment for an entire year and stick to it.
Me? I went into it hoping to get a good picture or two - to build my self confidence - to believe in my abilities as much as others seemed to believe in them. I was successful! It's been a good year. No, it's been a GREAT year.
I'm not sure where this blog will go in 2011. I'm looking at some weekly photo memes. This daily thing is a ton of work (don't let anyone fool you into thinking it isn't) and I've got some other projects I'm working on that make daily posting here impossible.
I do know one thing.
I will keep taking pictures.
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PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Freezing Fog
It's not unusual for us to have freezing fog once or twice during the winter, but this was the third day in December that it has dusted all of Podunk. It looks like someone dropped crates full of powdered sugar from the sky!
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“Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Hoar Frost
We get several hoar frosts throughout the winter - this was the first of the season.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Row
Even in the winter there is still beauty in the corn.
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Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Fog
Inspired by Jay
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“Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?”
~ Jon Bon Jovi
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Santa
There is a crane contractor who recently moved in just down the road from our offices who clearly has Christmas spirit. Santa now flies across the road that leads into (and out of) our complex.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
~ George Washington Carver
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Sunrise
I'm not sure which I enjoy the most - a beautiful sunset or a beautiful sunrise - but this time of year I usually get to see both!
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Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you;
she is after your barn.
~ Hesiod
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Barn
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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
~ Herbert Prochnow
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: City
If we have Christmas decorations on the streetlights that makes us a city, right?
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
~ William Lyon Phelps
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Cow
The snow is always greener?
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“When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.”
~ Unknown
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Pieces
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Chaos is a friend of mine.
~ Bob Dylan
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Chaos
The first snow of the season always brings a certain level of chaos.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Crystal
Sometimes the frost is solid and blocks your sight,
and sometimes it begs you to look a little closer.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
~ Kyan Douglas
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Old-Fashioned
We don't do fancy froo-froo displays here, we do displays with heart!
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Conservation
And just what do you suppose the Conservation Police do? This guy was hanging out at the truck stop in Podunk.
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Tattoos aren't meant for everybody and they're too goddamn good for some people.
~ Lyle Tuttle, tattoo artist, author, and lecturer
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Tattoo
I need to find a barber shop where they actually know how to use these. I love my hairstylist, but the white chick with clippers made a mess of Cam's poor head.
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My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
~ Alex O'Loughlin
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Fog
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
PLACE: Lutheran Church, Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Light
I went back to the church early in the morning to help clean up the what was left of the ladies tea. Just a few of the lights were on in the sanctuary.
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
~ John Stuart Blackie
PLACE: Lutheran Church, Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Tea
I was invited to a ladies holiday tea at one of Podunk's smaller churches. It was quite enjoyable to see all of the older (70's) ladies dressed in their church best.
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at
driver's license age than at voting age.
~ Marshall McLuhan
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Vote
I wasn't going to do it. I was convinced my silence would be my strongest voice.
Then I changed my mind.
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