Jaci Dawn

Photo #319/365   Rhododendron blooms after the bloom and after the rain.

I am giving myself permission to not complete the goal. I only have 46 more days to go to reach 365 days. A month and a half.

I also have company coming, weekends of hiking and camping coming up, and the addition of a four-legged two year old to my life.

I will continue to attempt to take a photo a day for the next 46 days, but I’m not going to beat myself up if I don’t do it. I’ve stuck it out this far and sometimes I’ve come up with some eye-catching photos (but most of the time, it’s been pretty mundane or I’ve resorted to photoshopping something). It won’t be the end of the world if I fail to reach this goal because this was somewhat of a contrived goal. A little challenge and I kept at it longer than most people I know who started out with the same challenge.

Truth is, I know that if life went forward uninterrupted, I could do it. But I foresee a lot of interruptions coming up in the very near future. So I have permission to fall short of the goal or to at least alter the goal a little. I’ll still carry my camera everywhere, but I am not going to try to post the photos every single day.

I know that the new addition to our family is very needy and he will take up a lot of my time over the next few days. I doubt I will get to the computer to upload the day’s photos every single day – and then blog about them. I’ll try, but if I don’t make it, I will combine several day’s worth of photos into one blog post and leave it at that.

It’s the same goal, just a different strategy. I’m giving myself permission to alter the strategy in order to reach the goal.

I can do this. 365 photos. Just maybe not posted every single day. But I am going to try.

(Why do I suddenly feel like the Little Engine That Could? I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…)

Why do I get the feeling that you, my readers, know I just talked myself out of quitting?

(<ahem> Because I just talked myself out of quitting.)

See you next post! With a photo for every day. I promise. I WILL do this.