So after several years of talking myself out of it, I am going to participate in this year's December Photo Project, hosted by my dear friend and blogging mentor Rebecca Tredway. I invite anyone who reads here and also has a blog to participate, too! To read about the project, head on over to Rebecca's and read this and this. But the basic idea is that you post one photo every day from December 1 to December 25. I am sure I will flake out on more than a few days, but just anticipating doing this has already got me carrying around my camera and paying more attention to the visually interesting things I see.

Breaking News: Daniel Meigs, boyfriend of my lovely sister, has started a blog (finally!) and is going to participate in the December Photo Project. Daniel takes better pictures with one hand tied behind his back, in his sleep, with a blindfold on, than I can take on my very best day. I already knew I was going to look bad before this was over, but now it is official. Welcome, Wetsuit Waffle. Be nice and don't laugh at my bad photos or I will have Hannah beat you up.

In other blog-related trivia, I have finally updated all the broken links in my blogroll after about 20 of you changed your locations. And I have newly linked a few people who I have read for a long time or have recently started reading, and in doing so, I am effectively de-lurking (yet again) in at least one place. Thus, a big hello to Moriah of Please Pass the Salt!. Moriah is not only the cousin of my good friend Bryonie from Delights and Shadows, but was also one of my cabin-mates at summer camp circa 1997 or so. None of that makes me any less rude for lurking on her blog all this time, but I'm just putting it out there so you know that sometimes I lurk on the blogs of people I have actually met in real life, and do not just exclusively stalk strangers. Yes. I am so normal.

I also want to welcome to the world of blogging to my college friend Katharine, who has started making me laugh over at The Life of Savages. It's a good thing Katharine and Brian live so far away, or I would have a hard time not stealing their little girl Lily away and trying to pass her off as my own daughter in spite of the blue eyes and the fact that she is the spitting image of ... well, both of them, somehow. It's hard to describe.

So stay tuned for a photo a day starting on Monday. And don't laugh when I fall off the wagon on about December 3.