I never got around....

 

"Hidden Places"

Picture of the year 2025

I never got around to posting our picture of the year for 2025,  so here it is... only a few weeks late!  (It seems there are a lot of things that I never get around to these days! :(  It's really no surprise that this big gawky bird came in number one again, given the hours I have stalked him about the place.  He has had this honor before, you may remember, when "Were you too cold to fly?" took 1st Place.  

Were you too cold to fly?  (A favorite of mine.)

He has even shown up a few times on journal pages, sketched and water colored.

As of yesterday, Millie and I have walked our hilltop trails 1400 times without missing.  It didn't look possible when the trails lay buried in layers of snow, sleet and ice that we would be able to reach that number, but, thanks to a higher power, some man-made trails and  lots of tall sturdy trees to hang onto, we did!!! 

I was so busy hanging onto to everything within my reach,, that I didn't get many pictures of this storm, but here are just a few...