Sunset out our window, Berkeley, CA.
You may find it hard to believe, but honestly, I didn’t tinker with the color on this. No “boost,” no “saturate,” no nothing. Mother Nature’s pulled-taffy splendor, which of course is splendor enough.
Thank you for coming along for this month’s ride. I didn’t always get a picture up each day; a coupla times holiday merry-making backed them up a day and they came tumbling in all in a clump. A violent reaction to my brother-in-law’s lobster risotto threw my posting off another time. But it has been a huge treat for me.
During the first week of the new year I’ll do two compilation posts rounding up LD 2010: one featuring (my idea of) the best prose post per month; another featuring (my idea of) the best photo posts, hopefully way more than a dozen, since I recently figured out how to set pictures to music for a slide show and I want to do that. (For my next trick, I’m going to learn how to shuffle cards!) [Later note: bumped out of the first week and into the second by an important & extended plea for Kickstarter funding for the film Pariah!]
More than any other in recent memory, I am optimistic about this coming year, and really eager to see what it has in store. I found myself saying to someone recently, “Other than global warming, the expanding gulf between the haves and the have-nots, the rise of fundamentalisms, and the sorry-ass Democrats not getting their shizzy together, I feel pretty good about 2011.” I hope you have every reason to feel the same, and look forward to conspiring together toward that end, in our own little virtual way.
Happy New Year to you all!
Transatlantic greetings and optimistic wishes that your return to blogging continues. Lobster and all.
Thank you thank you thank you! And a most happy new year back to you and your clan.
I share your high hopes (re: the return to bloggery sticks for good this time). Lobster is now referred to as “The L-Word” around these parts, and will be henceforth approached by me only in a haz-mat suit and a clenched jaw.
I enjoyed this series of photos very much… Thanks for posting. Happiest New Year to you!
Oh. *sigh* Lobster. I share your pain – probably literally. Haven’t been able to ingest it since I was 8 – old enough to know what I was missing. Stay strong, and I’ll send you a recipe for a better-than-nothing fake.
On an unrelated note: thank you for putting “fundamentalism” in the plural, once again proving to me your insightfulness. May your optimism prove every bit as compelling – to the universe at large.
And happy on back, Bryna! Thanks for the thanks. It was truly my pleasure. A good way to burn some of the gunk out of the engine, as it were.
Rev, thank you for the “L-word” compassion. And for the nod re: fundamentalisms. Your esteem means a lot. I taught Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale in an intro Women’s Studies class in the early 1990s, and thought at the time how unlikely it was that we’d be in a cashless society with damaged fertility ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy. Her setting was North America, but she had her eye on fundamentalisms everywhere, I believe. Hard to find a continent on this planet not at least nicked (if not scarred) by it in whichever of the forms it assumes. I hope her distopia was a cautionary and not a predictive one. Either way, seems to me that optimism is the best path. How else we gonna strengthen the proverbial “love wolf” if we don’t feed it?