Day Six: Classmates

Liz Lance shares about her work as a Fulbright scholar in Nepal during a lunchtime lecture in Tucker Forum, Feb. 8, 2010.

Zach Siebert and Phoebe Sexton ponder the world's political problems, as they have promised the world peace by dinnertime, Feb. 6, 2010.

Day Five: Like a good neighbor

Ginger knocked on my door this afternoon and handed me a plastic container of homemade chili and this cake. (Had I been quick enough, I may have made a photo of her! I was distracted by the smell of beans and chocolate.) I've had some pretty good neighbors in my day, and she is, by far, one of the most thoughtful.

This is as far as went in one sitting. Round Two commences tomorrow morning with my tea.

Day Four: Forest for the trees, or the other way around

"There is ecstasy in paying attention," Anne Lamott writes in her book "Bird by Bird."

Before taking up this 30-day, 30-photos challenge, I had allowed my self-editor to take charge and diminish my sense of play, my sense of exploration, my sense of adventure. Yesterday, I jumped out of my Jeep, looked up and saw this sunburst through the trees in the East Campus neighborhood of Columbia, Mo. "Nice," I thought.

There was a brief moment where I hesitated. Yet, by picking up the camera and clicking the shutter to make one frame, I silenced the voice of my self-editor who was whispering, "Why waste your time? You're not here to make pictures. Besides, this image is cliché."

So, what? I look at it now and still say, "Nice."