My Favorite Turtle...

... for my 200th blip (at 2:00 pm today). Many thanks to all those blippers who have followed my journal, regularly or irregularly. My blipping experience has been a significant influence on my photography.

The ceramic turtle already appeared in May, in a blip of our bedroom mirror and chest of drawers. He's from my high school art class, and has accompanied me ever since; I remember my mother telling me that our cat once pounced on him.

I think it was in that blip in May that I first mentioned that we would be moving--an early note of nostalgia. We will miss our present digs--we're on the second floor and have sunlight all day.

I haven't missed a blip since starting on the 11th of February--though I did backblip a few times (most notably after returning from the Galapagos Islands in July).