day 4500

It’s done. This morning I gave a talk at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to 200 amazing guests. Wow, the energy in that room. I felt so heard and supported. I also felt so lucky and proud to have a Twin Cities community that would cause a traffic jam over a square mile just in order to attend a beloved art museum event. I felt like shouting, “Skol!” and putting the Minnesota Vikings to shame for a day! In preparation for the talk I calculated how many consecutive images I had made since I started STILL on January 1, 2012. The answer arrived like a sign of something: 4500 images. Even. I figure there’s karma in there somewhere. I was able to tell the audience that I would be going home after the talk to make my 4500th image, and that I already knew what my subject would be, because when I had gone out on the deck at 8 AM this morning to listen to the morning birdsong, I noticed that the deck was littered with hundreds of the small curved red stems of maple blossoms as a result of yesterday’s winds. Et voila! Day 4500. Done. See you tomorrow.

stems from maple tree flowers in april