THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: 2016 RETROSPECTIVE
I decided to answer this with my favorite dozen pictures from the past year, both mine and Garry’s. I don’t know how well these represent our lives. We tend to photograph our high points rather than the lows … but maybe it’s better that way. Happy New Year!
Garry with terriers
Photo: Garry Armstrong
Reflected autumn foliage in the river in October
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MORE WINTER IN THE VALLEY- GARRY ARMSTRONG 
LOVE IT, HATE IT – IT’S WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND 
UXBRIDGE BY NIGHT 
KELLY GREEN 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
A fine round-up of great shots. Happy 2017 to you and Garry.
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We need an homage to all of those photogenic middle points that always get forgotten about…
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The point between drinking too much and falling down?
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wonderful images and I do always love Garry and the dogs!!
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I think we all tend to photograph our high points rather than the lows. Yes, it’s probably better that way… 🙂
Happy new year!
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No one needs selfies of me in the black pit of despair 🙂 Happy New Year to you, too!
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Haha, selfies in the black pit of despair. 😀
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Interesting potential for strange, unsettling imagery!
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And your dogkids are here too 🙂 I have a favourite among both yours and Garry’s – red leaf truck and your snow scene. Here’s wishing for much more highs than lows in 2017!
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From your lips to the ear of the gods! Thank you Paula. Let’s MAKE it a good year!
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I’ll do my best, and you have to promise to make the best of it too 🙂
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Garry and I are working on optimism. It isn’t easy, but we keep trying 🙂
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What’s your sign?
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Pisces. Moon in Scorpio 🙂
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What does Moon in Scorpio in your case mean? Is Garry a Scorpio?
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It probably means that I’m a very stubborn Pisces who tends to hold grudges (I’m working on that, really, I am). Garry’s an Aries.
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Nice shots to end the year on. I did have quite a chuckle just thinking about posting about ‘lows.’ 🙂
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That would be interesting if we chronicled those really BAD days. The ones where we can’t get dressed and merely combing ones hair seems too much like work. Great pictures. We could take selfies.
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We might have to limit access to those of us in a certain age. The younger ones just might not get the humor we see in it. 🙂
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Happy New Year, Marilyn and Garry!
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And a happy New Year to you, tooo 🙂 2016 has a a lot to answer for.
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Yes, it does! 2017 had better be ready.
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Lovely pictures, Marilyn. Only one snowy one, so we’ll hope that is the extent of winter and it’s sunny skies and warm days in the near future.
Leslie
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Thanks! We didn’t get much snow in 2016 and we were in Arizona for a lot of January. I wouldn’t mind a low snow winter. Wouldn’t mind at all.
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Me too, of course.
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Oh this red houseboat! I like that you gathered your favorite pics for the year. Both of you are talented photographers and I’ve truly enjoyed your photos through the entire year. I love New England, one of the most photogenic regions of the country, but you have two sets of great eyes that brought the best of this area to wherever we live.
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Thank you. It’s actually a small museum built on a pier … It’s the Tea Party museum and supposedly, it’s where the Boston Tea Party took place. It’s a cute little museum.
New England is very photogenic. That one of the reasons I love it. I need some beauty near me or I wither.
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Oh shoot, I never saw it! I need too. I left Boston when my kids were really young. We saw a lot but not everything apparently.
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This is the first time I saw it … the only time, actually. And we lived in Boston for more than 10 years. We weren’t looking for it. We were looking for the Constitution dock, but there it was and there was parking … and it looked interesting, so we stopped. It turned out to be very interesting indeed. But entirely accidental 🙂
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I feel better then:)
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I lived in New York for thirty years and never made it to the Statue of Liberty. When I lived in Jerusalem, if I hadn’t had visitors from the States to show around, I probably wouldn’t have seen half of what I saw. When you live there, you don’t act like a tourist. That’s why we need guests 🙂
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That’s so true! I lived in Paris for ten years and only climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower when I took my American-born kids there:-)
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See? You need to have a reason. When you live in New York, you may go to the museums, but you won’t go to the Statue of Liberty. Because that’s for tourists.
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High points are always better than low ones. 🙂 beautiful pictures.
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Thank you. The lows would make very interesting photos, but I can say for sure that while enduring low points, I’m in no mood to take pictures. Of any kind 🙂
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Marilyn, an ‘umble thanks to introducing me to the joys of taking pics. It keeps the creative juices flowing. You’re a post-production artiste!!
2016 may have been like stuffed Lima Beans but we certainly got some lovely pics, especially during our classic autumn.
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So true. There’s enough negativity around us — 24/7.
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