Five!

It is the blog’s fifth birthday today, July 27th! I actually started it here in Aspen (if I remember correctly – I certainly remember painting and photographing the logo here) on this date in 2006, with my first post here. It has been very enjoyable writing all these years, sharing thoughts and ramblings, and it is still great to learn of the variety of people who are reading, and of the core of people who’ve stayed with the blog through rain and shine.

As in previous anniversary posts (see here, here and here – I was neglectful last year), I put together a little celebratory drawing of sorts*. This time I did not have pencil and god paper to hand, and so after a bit of thought about how I’d include the number 5 in the graphic, I did a quick iPad drawing, which I then painted later (all in Brushes), for a splash of colour. With more time, it would have been more polished, perhaps, but I sort of like the roughness of this…

Thanks for stopping by, reading, skimming, clicking, telling your friends, linking to the posts, commenting, sending me email, or any of those things. All these things are very welcome. It is great to have a community built around a little quiet space that I persist on keeping alive even as the web seems to get noisier and busier than ever.

Thanks all of you!

-cvj

*Hey, aef, thanks for inquiring about this and reminding me!!!