This is the month of February in my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025 painting, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day. I have documented my steps in paintings since 2016.
The Iridescent Bright Gold background paint used to signify the days (mostly weekends, but also including holidays, vacations days, and sick days) I was not at work, which usually gives me more time to walk for exercise than the days I am at work, with the exception of sick days (of course).
The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.
There are 12 days in the second and third week where I outlined the icons that day in Teal, to represent why I didn't walk more than usual. On Super Bowl Sunday I fell very hard on black ice. While I didn't break anything, I had (and still have) soft tissue bruising and was either in too much pain to walk or was very afraid to walk outside due to ice.
The four days where the icons are four vertical lines (IIII), I only walked 1000 steps. I have never in nine years walked that little, even after donating my kidney, when I had to walk a mile in the hospital, which is 2300+ steps.
The picture below shows January and February with plenty of room for the rest of the year.
