Day 40

Abandoned mallard egg, front yard, Albion, MI, 4:30pm.

Day 39

Tree, West Michigan Avenue, outside Albion, MI, 3:30pm.

Day 38

Main gate, equine facility, Calhoun County Fair Grounds, Marshall, MI, 3:45pm.

Day 37

Compare with Day 21. The chives are overpowering the leaf, finally. It's spring!

Day 36

Garden outside the pool in the parking lot of the Little America Hotel, Salt Lake City, UT, 1:00pm.

Coming back from a quite good Indian buffet lunch, I saw these shoots and knowing we had a long day of travel ahead, tried to make something of them since the chances for photographs would be rare. As I got up and turned around to head to our room, the engineer who had tried to fix our room safe (unsuccessfully) said, "We must have some pretty interesting weeds." I explained the camera, Amy's jewelry business, and the project 365," and the guy said, "Oh, so you've got the XSI?" I said yes and he explained, "I've got the XS and I'm having a lot of fun with it." Amateur photographers are everywhere!

Day 35

This is actually a bronze (?) sculpture at the Courthouse TRAX streetcar stop on Main Street, Salt Lake City, UT. The backdrop is Amy's new spring coat, a birthday present from her sister, Megan.

Day 34

Curling frieze on one of the exterior walls encircling the block of the arena used for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Salt Lake City, UT, 4:00pm.

Day 33

Mountains--natural and man-made--downtown Salt Lake City, 4:10pm.

Day 32

Early morning in the Beilstein front garden, Mansfield, OH, 8:10am.

Day 31

Tea time in fading light. Amy's studio, late afternoon, Albion, MI.

Day 30

Lola's nose artwork, Buick Rendez-vous, 5:45pm.

Day 29

Day 29. Reiger Park, Albion, MI, 1:30pm.

Day 28

Honeycomb, Beislstein backyard, Mansfield, OH, 12:30pm.

OSR Bonus Shot

Northeast guard tower.

Day 27

East wall of the Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, OH, 4:15pm.
Built between 1886 and 1910, the OSR is today likely best known for serving as Shawshank State Prison in the film The Shawshank Redemption.

Day 26 bonus material

The same tree from yesterday's photographs, here reflected in the garage door windows.

Day 26

Abandoned (?) dairy farm, Marion Road, Mansfield, OH, 1:45pm.

So, it's Day 26 in this Project 365 adventure. It's also Friday the thirteenth. Amy wanted to go to the abandoned dairy farm where I took photographs yesterday, so we stopped there on our way back from lunch. As she took some shots, I wandered around some of the back buildings, peering in windows. Kneeling down and shading my eyes to look into one structure, I was suddenly spooked as a black cat leapt onto the windowsill directly in front of me on the other side of the window. Although I'm not prone to triskaidekaphobia, it gave me pause. (Ha!) When Amy was finished, the cat was still eying me, so I took some shots of the two of us having a stare down.

More bonus material

I had to lie on my back and do a crunch to get this photograph.

Bonus stuff

Bonus photos from today

Residence front door.

Day 25

Abandoned dairy farm, Marion Avenue, Mansfield, OH, 5:10pm.

Day 24

Boots and jeans. My first photograph using the remote shutter release. Back steps, 7:30pm, Albion, MI.

Day 23

Sita sleeping, 5:10pm.

Day 22

Our small branch of the Kalamazoo river, 4:15pm. I was trying to capture some sense of the spring depth and speed to the usually docile stream.

Day 21

Sign of spring. Front steps, Albion, MI, 6:45pm.

Day Twenty

Penguins canoodling in the spotlight, 7:45pm.

Day Nineteen

So this is about my worst photograph so far, I think. I was trying to do something interesting with the shoes so they look like they'd been just pulled off after a run and tossed aside casually, but no matter how I arranged them, the result looks like I'm planning to put them on eBay later today.

This is what, day eighteen?

26 Mile Road, Albion, MI, 5:30pm.

Day Seventeen

Railroad tracks west of Albion, MI, 4:00pm.

Day Sixteen

Day Sixteen. Living room wallpaper, 5:30pm. Amy, ever more creative than I, suggested textures as a theme to shoot. This is a close-up of the wallpaper in our living room--something I hope we never decide to try to remove on our own!

Day Fifteen

Windy Day. West Michigan Avenue, outside Albion, MI, 4:30pm.

Day Fourteen

Reiger Park, Albion, MI, 4:30pm.

Day Thirteen

Hannah Street, Albion, MI, 4:00pm.