January 13-20

January 13th

We had a whole bunch of very foggy mornings; some days the fog didn’t lift until mid-afternoon!

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Thoughts

Speaking of this rainbow…

…I couldn’t help but wonder, as we were driving mauka (east) that day, how many people were aware of it and took notice of it. We were driving along Highway 212 and the rainbow was majestic in front of us. It was so incredible that I thought, in a different world, traffic would’ve stopped, people would’ve gotten out of their cars, gotten together in groups, and shared in the delight of getting to witness such an incredible sight.

Of course, that didn’t happen, and it probably wouldn’t have even been reasonable to do so, but those are the kinds of things I think about. I also wonder how many times we rush through our days, not noticing the wonder of everything around us. That’s one of the reasons I started the 365 Days photos, because I learned even more about all the miracles, large and small, around me, that happen every single day. I’ve always had an eye for detail, and getting to document the details was and is a good thing for me to do. Doing the photos helped me to stay in the present, and not let my mind wander off too much (which it’s inclined to do anyway).

In the end, I was incredibly grateful that the rainbow stayed long enough for me to get off the highway and onto a quiet country road, so that I could see its astonishing beauty and share it with you.

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January 11-12

Definitely not the daily hummingbird!
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January 4-10

January 4th

Daily hummingbird.
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January 1, 2025

Back in January 2022 I’d decided, with the great input from you folks, to do the 365 Days challenge, posting at least one photo a day for each day, chronicling my year. As you know, I got ‘way behind a lot of times, probably because instead of posting one photo a day, which was my original intent, I ended up posting a lot more than that, which took a lot of time, cropping and editing the photos, typing out captions, etc., and then posting everything. I think I got burned out and discouraged because I couldn’t keep up. I have a fairly busy life to attend to, also.

I am basically a storyteller, really. But I was so busy posting daily photos that I didn’t have time to post about our various road trips (witness the fact that I never did finish our autumn drive up the mountain from a year and a half ago!). I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to do with this blog this year, and I think that I’m going to cut down on the number of 365 Days photos I’ve been doing for the past three years, and concentrate more on storytelling, if you can call it that. I’m still going to work in the Daily Hummingbird, though, and I still want to chronicle each day, but on a smaller scale.

So without further adieu…

I hardly ever see two of them together at this time of year!
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365 Days 2024, December 26-31…and pau.

Daily hummingbird.
One woodpile from the tree cutting.
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365 Days 2024, Christmas Day

Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge

Going to Ridgefield has become an annual tradition for Nolemana and I. We almost didn’t go today because we knew it’d be raining all day long. But in the end, we decided to go and were glad we did.

I must admit that it was a stressful drive up. Even with the warning signs every few miles, cars were passing me going at least 65 mph. I don’t get the sense of entitlement of their drivers.
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365 Days 2024, December 24th

Christmas Eve

We drove out after dark to look at Christmas lights; as I said before, our usual wonderful display wasn’t open to cars, so we missed that one. But here are a few that we saw around town.

Our across the road neighbors put this up every year; isn’t it great?
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365 Days 2024, December 21-24

December 21st

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365 Days 2024, December 11-20

The duck pond at Big Valley Woods where I met with the Gathering this morning before heading to the vet’s office.

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