Thanks so much!!

[urbpan]

I was going to respond to each of the comments to my last 365 post, but there were so many congratulations that it soon became overwhelming to even contemplate! Thanks so much. I really enjoyed the project, even if it was a lot of work, and made every evening an exercise in discipline.

Super huge thanks to the team of reader/scientist/naturalists who kept me accurate, thorough, and helped me identify many of the tough plants and bugs.

Special thanks to cottonmanifesto, who joined in on the project willingly, even though I didn't warn her that I was going to do it a year ago today (really!), I just kind of started it on a whim. Her eye for natural beauty, her ability to find the most interesting part of the most commonplace object, and her talent with the camera make her the best partner I could have asked for on this project. Her amazing dedication, as a partner and a long-suffering but never complaining wife, put me in reverent awe. She never asked for this project, but she made it so much better than it would have been.

I'll try to continue to write an interesting blog, even if I don't have a rigid daily format. I'm still fascinated by the same things, and now I know much more about the living things around me than I did a year ago.

I should remind readers that there's a community called urban_nature that will hold to the subject of urban nature much more closely than I will. I'll still go off on tangents about animal usage, captive animal enrichment, environmental issues, how much I hate the snow, the goings on at my job, and for those of you on my friends list who should play Wonder Woman, and what muppet I most resemble (a cross between kermit and animal).

I'm happy that you liked the 365 project! I did too. Maybe the next thing will be even better. :)

Comments

[candent.livejournal.com]

Congrats Jef, I really enjoyed your project.

[drocera.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to let you know that your 365 jouranl was my absolute favorite blog on LJ for 2006. I learned so much! Thank you.

[zhalaya.livejournal.com]

Your posts have been most informative and a pleasure to read. It's inspired me to take more notice of what surrounds me and how little i know about where I live. Thanks for putting it into perspective for me. You will always be on my list. I hope this page will stay up for a long time, I want to read through the posts again :) Congratulations and well done.

[proreality.livejournal.com]

You did an amazing job with this and I learned a lot from it -- it made me appreciate where I live even more ^__^

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

I was excited to hear you did it...and what a cool "couple project" it turned out to be! :)
Hey did you get the card I sent you? I just wanted to be sure you got it! :)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I'll go check my mailbox tomorrow! Thanks!

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Oh cool...ok I HOPE I sent it to the right address...:P
hahahahah

[roadie-58.livejournal.com]

I've only just caught a few of your posts, what a great project, almost inspire me to do something similar, when I get time maybe.. Thanks..

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for saying so! I hope you do do something similar--it's fun to read a blog when someone commits to a structure and an interesting subject. :)