I had a project for this Summer, "BC Weeds and Wildflowers". I started working on this project in the Spring of 2007. The goal was to get to know and create beautiful images of all the common flowering plants (weeds, wildflowers, shrubs, trees) in British Columbia. There are many. Way too many. Last year my goal was to photograph/catalog 30 different flowers (goal reached and surpassed). This year (2008) my goal was to increase that number to 75 flowers identified, photographed, and cataloged.

A couple days ago I went out, flower-hunting once again. Specifically, I was looking for Arrow-leaved balsamroot, a kind of sunflower that grows in dryer areas around here, sometimes covering whole hillsides, sometimes in clumps by themselves. I found numerous bad patches, but towards the end of the day I found a couple very good patches on Anarchist Pass, between Midway and Osoyoos (BC - Canada).

And then it hit me. I wasn't enjoying myself. I was fed up with the project, not interested anymore, tired of it. At that moment I could hardly stand the sight of another flower!

Has this happened to others? That you have some project you love dearly, and then, all of a sudden, things change, sometimes dramatically, and you're not there anymore.

So here I am. I am not giving up on wildflowers, I like them too much, but I think I will enjoy them just because, without worrying about making pictures of them or cataloging them or other such things. Maybe that will work better.