March in pictures

Apparently I’m making this a thing, posting about things that make me happy. Here’s another one.

Two years ago, I was living in Gatineau and teaching high school. I had the landlord from hell, and had to break my lease and move back in with my parents (Don’t get me wrong – I know I’m lucky to have parents I can live with. But who wants to move back home at 25?). I had just found out that my teaching contract wasn’t being renewed. It was cold. Basically, I wasn’t super happy.

So I started thinking about ways to get out of the house and cheer myself up. Somehow, I came up with a plan called Marchmywords. For the entire month of March, I would be taking one picture per day, based on my interpretation of a word. I made a blog, posted the words, and invited people to email me their pictures every day so I could post them on the blog.

The first year was great – 40 people participated in the project! The second year was a bit of a bust – I was too busy working in Moncton with Katimavik to take pictures and run the blog, and not too many other people were playing. The 2011-2012 pictures are still up on the blog, but this year I decided to take a different approach by making it a Facebook page. People can contribute directly to the page, and all I have to do is focus on taking my own pictures.

I just moved to the Coast, and once again I need a reason to get out of the house and explore, so it’s been great so far. Below are my pictures of the first week of March. Head on over to our Facebook page – like us, join us, take your own pictures. I promise you’ll have fun!

March 1 – Soft

March 2 – Joie de vivre

March 3 – Intimidation

March 4 – Clarity

March 5 – Championship

March 6 – Friend

March 7 – Energy

March 8 – White

 What other cool photo projects do you know about?

Day 4 : Music to live by, and other large attractions

Since there’s nothing to do but drive and no one to talk to as I do it, I spend all of my time listening to music. So far, there hasn’t been a moment of silence in my car. Here are some of my faves this week :

First of all, I need to talk about Passenger. All of my Katimakids know of my obsession with this singer. He’s been a fave since I saw him busking in Brighton a few years ago, and his music has made the past 30 hours lovely.

I always listen to this song at the beginning of a trip. Always always always.

And I love the lyrics of this song :

Mumford and Sons is another obvious choice. I love that their new album came out right before I left, and it’s currently being played on repeat.

And finally this is a new song in my repertoire – I first heard it at Marina’s wedding, and it makes my day start super well.

Also, there was no time to take a picture with the giant red paper clip from One Week, but I did find the world’s largest coke can!