A Year of Mornings | by Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes
Princeton Architectural Press

Almost two years ago, two women at opposite ends of a country took a photograph. Both women then loaded their photo on to Flickr and immediately noticed a similarity between their images (everyday objects randomly arranged on a kitchen table). One thing led to another and the two women came up with the idea to document their mornings by uploading one photograph per day to a shared blog called 3,191: a Year of Mornings (the women live 3,191 miles apart).

I have happily become lost in the caverns of the 3,191 site for long spells of my own mornings. Apparently, I’m not the only one, as this spontaneous collaborative project has now attracted an international following, including the Princeton Architectural Press and Martha Stewart.

PAP has collected 236 of these photographs – a bowl of granola alone on the table, rainboots kicked off in a quiet hallway, random books on an unmade bed – and put together a beautiful little book.

You should be able to buy it at Chapters/Indigo for under 20 bucks. It’s very Christmas-giftable.