With the temperature near 0˚ F, boy clutches his harp seal pup doll
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:55PM
Wasilla, Alaska, by 300

Boy standing with woman on a corner of Lucille Street holds fur seal pup doll. Taken in driver's side rearview mirror with Canon Powershot G9 pocket camera, during brief pause at stop sign.

 

I love to blog, but it is taking up too much of my time, even though I have so far only pursued the tiniest fraction of the goals that I set for myself at the outset of this journal. I intend to reach those goals, but first I must find some way to free up more of my time and this will be a huge challenge for me.

In the meantime, I will keep this blog up, but will scale it back. I will post just as often - perhaps every day or just about every day, but most days, only one photo, or maybe two: one taken the day of posting and another from the past, before I started the blog. I was going to do it that way today, but I haven't the time to dig up a photo from the past, even though it would not take me long to do so.

There was a beautiful moon out when I took my morning walk, and I took several photos of it as it hung up in the clear, cold, crisp, blue sky and it was my intent to use one of those photos here. In my mind, I had already picked out a moon shot from the past to match up with it, but then this boy showed up for about three seconds in my rear-view mirror and so I decided to use this image of him and his doll instead.

Occasionally, perhaps once a week, I will still make more extensive posts. If I can find the time (and that looks impossible for at least through the winter) I would still like to shoot a genuine picture story that I actually plan and pursue now and then. To reach my goals with this blog, I must ultimately do this. Even when I find the time to do so, I will continue to photograph the random images that appear before me whenever I roam Wasilla, or any other place that I happen to go, and I will put them in the blog.

I have spent too much time explaining this. I have other work that I must do. I must go now.

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