one + one = 1027

600

posts

~~

there it was in black and white

and

I had failed to pay any attention to it

until yesterday

~~

but

the more I thought about it

and

then about all of the

living and love and experiences and friends and dreams and inspiration and support

that have wrapped themselves around me

during the past four years

I felt that I had left out a very important part of my life

~~

my very first blog

a baby of sorts

~~

when I first decided to blog

in december of 2005

it was on the heels of another one of our moves

and

I wanted to keep our friends and family up to date

with all of our life changes

~~

but

it quickly became much more than that

~~

it became a huge part of my daily life

for two years

~~

but

then one morning I woke up

and

knew that something had to change

~~

like a favorite sweater shrinking in the dryer

"seaside dreamer"

just wasn't fitting me anymore

~~

it was filled with art

that I was no longer working on

and

many photos from flickr

that weren't mine

because

at that time

photography wasn't important to me

and

I knew in my heart

that I needed something new

something fresh

~~

so

"more doors"

~be yourself...everyone else is taken~

was born

representing all the homes I have lived in

while

cherishing the fact that there will be

more doors

I'll open in the future

~~

and

it's been here

on this blog

where

I've learned to fly

~~

where

my photography

that I didn't fall in love with

until

I went to squam in september of 2008

has a home

~~

where

my words

that so often seem jumbled up in my mind

somehow make sense when I see them written here

~~

so

I decided I couldn't leave out my first blog

because

all of us have someone or something

we need to give credit to

for a starting point

with something special in our lives

~~

so here's to my old blog

who helped me get here

~~

1027

posts

*

and

to those of you who mentioned it

by all means

if you win the drawing

and

want the truck photo

from yesterday

instead of a winter scene

it's all yours

*