Last holiday concert I’ll attend at Tiny Town College. It included an ensemble piece about texting at the holidays … it was interesting.

The end of the semester also means faculty meetings and faculty holiday greetings, complete with a pie contest.

And here we go again … starting year ten of the one-year, photo-a-day project.

We all have our interpretations of paradise. For some, it’s shorts in December. For others, it’s palm trees and technicolor beverages.

For me, it’s anywhere I can use my camera to share a little snippet of life – whether’s it’s sitting at the pharmacy waiting to pick up the dog’s medication or sitting at the same pharmacy, a few days later, to get my flu shot.

The joy of taking a four dimensional world and bringing it down to just two, to preserve a moment in time from a particular point of view … to me, that’s paradise.

And with this post, I close out 3,287 days of making and sharing a photo every day here on the phlog. Nine years, no misses.

Tomorrow, batteries charged up again, I’ll start year ten of what was supposed to be a one-year project. I can’t wait to see something new.

The kids wanted a class photo, so they lined up … and I stepped aside for a moment to make my own.

As with most photojournalists, I hate having my own picture made.

When the light is right, everything tries to get away.

With the students mostly out of town, we townies snuck out for some fun.