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Thanks for following!

Ashley and Joel Selby are a husband-and-wife graphic design team with a
passion for words and pictures. They decided to embark on a journey
starting March 20, 2009 and ending March 20, 2010, in which they
document every day of their first full growing season of marriage with
the pairing of a photo from Ashley and a haiku from Joel. They create
without knowing what the other has done, letting the story of their
daily lives unfold on its own. 

If you would like to see the images closer to their original color and crispness, check out our flickr Spring to Spring documentation, on thispapership


Day 322

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Small bell jingles
in the next room over
cat playing alone

Day 321

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Armchair creaks
warm air whishing from a vent
deep yawn

Day 319

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Frozen snow covering
old chicken tracks
single egg in the straw

Day 318

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Cold sleeping bag
moon glides across the window
and out of my eyes

Day 317

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Stacked boxes
warm bare feet
the world hushed by snow

Day 316

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Clinking glasses
washing hands, drying, washing
spattered apron

A Note from Joel & Ashley

Dear Spring to Spring followers,

After 9 months of consistent documentation, we hit some major snags with our project last December when we faced a major year-end slump in income from freelancing and found our living situation too difficult to deal with. Thus we embarked on another move—our third in less than a year, and the most difficult one of them all—while taking on more new clients and adding to the plate a demanding weekend part-time job for Joel.

It was a bummer to miss documenting some of these days, but it’s also what you get when you’re dealing with a life documentary; that is, sometimes things get so tough at the moment that the silence says more than a haiku or photo could express. That said, we’re going to start going again as of today, while working backwards with what we captured during Christmas in Germany, Scotland, and coastal NC. For the days that we missed, we’d like to make them up beyond the first day of spring 2010, so that we’ll still have 365 photos and haiku and thus complete (more or less) the goal that we set out with at the beginning of spring last year.

Thanks for your support! We’re excited about finishing strong!

Joel & Ashley

Day 270

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Opened a book—
oh! hiding ladybug!
Didn’t mean to disturb you

Day 269

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Abandonded food bowl
our tomcat preferring
dust under the house

Day 268

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Sharp winter treetops
poke holes in the fog
as it deflates onto the road