7.1: The juniper bends as if you were listening, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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Give me your hand
Your mother is drunk as all the firemen shake
A photo from father’s arms
Cinder and smoke
You’ll ask me to pray for rain
With ash in your mouth
You’ll ask it to burn again

I’m trying to learn “Cinder and Smoke” by Iron and Wine this week. It’s only 3 chords (Am, Dm+7, and Em) but the picking pattern is a little complicated.

I think next week will be “Sunset Soon Forgotten.”

June Retrospective, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

1. 6.1: A Van Dyck?, 2. 6.2: I’ve been seeking what I couldn’t find, 3. 6.3: X-wing, 4. 6.4: Press, 5. 6.5: No witty title, 6. 6.7: Just a portrait, 7. 6.6: I just want to have something to do, 8. 6.8: I still had legs and arms, 9. 6.9: I had not become a cephalopod, 10. 6.10: Got a haircut, 11. 6.11: Dali, 12. 6.12: Bonnaroo ticket & media wristband, 13. 6.13: A camera in each hand, 14. 6.14: Sam Beam and me, 15. 6.15: Waiting for Sigur Rós, 16. 6.16: Summertime, 17. 6.17: Summertime, 18. 6.18: You turned it on, you turned it out, it all felt off, that’s how it is, that’s how it was, 19. 6.19: Oh, and just when we thought we were no longer lost, 20. 6.20: rock climbing, 21. 6.21: R.E.M. After-Show, 22. 6.22: I’m the new blue blood, I’m the great white hope, 23. 6.23: Summertime, 24. 6.24: Freckles, 25. 6.25: Summertime, 26. 6.26: Self-portrait as Photoshopper, 27. 6.27: Bear Necessities, 28. 6.28: I’m hoping there’s a point that we’re all missing, 29. 6.29: Sometimes I feel quite CERTAIN, 30. 6.30: Self-portrait in the zoo

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

Once I upload July 1st’s picture, I will be exactly halfway done with my 366 days project. Right at the moment, it’s difficult to see how I’ll make it through another 183 days of this. I’m pretty well sick and tired of taking pictures of myself, to be honest. For most of this month it has been a daily struggle to get myself to take one and I think it shows in the pictures I’m posting. I mean, I have taken lots of photos that I like this month, just almost none of them are of myself.

6.30: Self-portrait in the zoo, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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6.29: Sometimes I feel quite CERTAIN, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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6.28: I’m hoping there’s a point that we’re all missing, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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Now there’s a lot of talk but I’m not listening
I’m hoping there’s a point that we’re all missing
But all I really know
Is one day we’ve all got to go
But before it’s all over and done
I’m about to have me some fun

6.27: Bear Necessities, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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"Bear Minimum" layer grocked from Dr MmmMm.

6.26: Self-portrait as Photoshopper, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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My self-portraits are seriously sucking these days. I have taken a lot of photos in June that I’m proud of–many concert photos, shots of the kids, a couple of abstracts that I like–but very few of them are self-portraits. Right at the moment, I’m kinda hating taking pictures of myself, which is probably why I’m taking forever to process and upload the selfies too.

If things don’t improve fairly soon, sometime in July this might go from a 365 Days to a Project 365.