First of all, pay no attention to the programmer behind the curtain. I informed the dear husband that what few readers we have are going to never read this again if he keeps writing posts about writing code. Although I have to admit I’m pretty grateful he knows how to do that stuff. This all came about when I was trying to write this post and Wordpress wouldn’t let me upload photos. Two hours of coding later, I can post photos again. He’s pretty useful.

Anyway.

Many people I read online have done a “Project 365”–the idea is that you post a picture from every day for 365 days straight. I’ve always wanted to do it, but didn’t want to commit to taking, uploading, and posting a photo every single day. Recently I’ve been inspired by this really cool little book my good friend, bridesmaid, and longtime roommate Becky sent me–A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart. It is the collection of photos from the project of two friends that live exactly 3191 miles apart, in Portland, OR and Portland, ME (almost like Becky and I in Seattle and Philadelphia). They each determined to take a photo of their morning every day for a year, and the result was a book full of beautiful photos of little things one might never notice otherwise–a bowlful of brown eggs waiting to be boiled, the light on the pillow, peaches sitting on a paper towel. Becky and I loved our mornings, and had coffee and breakfast together nearly every day. We especially loved going out and finding the best little breakfast places in Seattle (Macrina’s Bakery, just a few blocks from our cute little Queen Anne house, was a favorite. So much so that I have their cookbook, and make muffins from it every time I get homesick for Seattle). I like the idea of noticing beautiful places and moments and capturing them, as well as having a kind of visual journal of the year. So I decided to go ahead and attempt a Project 365, but with two caveats–I reserve the right to miss days, and also to post more than one photo on the days I do post. I also make no claims for my photography skills–I take a lot of boring, blurry photos. We’ll see how long this lasts.

So, after all that, here are the first few photos of my Project 365:

Two photos of what I see when I wake up:

I love having a mini icon corner in my kitchen, since I spend far more time in my kitchen than I do in the room with our main icon corner. It often reminds me to pray while I’m working. I especially love having the Rublev “Holy Trinity” icon–this scene is often called “The Hospitality of Abraham,” and the family who gave it to me (whom I nannied for for a year) gave it to me to remind me to be hospitable. It seems fitting to keep it in the kitchen.

Here’s the view of our street out the window:

I’ve started making pita each week. It’s very useful to have around–we eat it with scrambled eggs, feta, tomatoes, and cucumbers for breakfast, stuffed with grain salads and vegetables for lunch, and with our soup and hummus for dinner. It takes really quick work at the end, but otherwise it’s pretty easy. I’ve been perfecting my recipe, since 100% wheat flour makes the pitas really brittle and crispy by the next day, and sometimes they don’t puff up properly. Today’s seemed to work great.