Looking back. My year — a dreadful and strange year which is finally — and good riddance — leaving.
JANUARY 2016 – ARIZONA & NEW ENGLAND
FEBRUARY 2016 – DEEP WINTER
MARCH 2016 – ALMOST SPRING
Welcome Gibbs!
APRIL 2016 – COME SHE WILL!
MAY 2016 – SPRING COMES TO THE VALLEY
The Beaver and the Tea Party museum in Boston
JUNE 2016 – INVASION AND RECOVERY
More ot those hideous caterpillars
Boston from the 66th floor
The lightest green really is gold
JULY 2016 – SUMMERTIME
New leaves on our Japanese maple tree
AUGUST 2016 – DEEP GREEN DAYS
Gibbs
Continually flowing
SEPTEMBER 2016 – AND NOW THE DAYS GROW SHORTER
Prostratation after a long, hard day at work
Photo: Garry Armstrong
OCTOBER 2016 – GOLDEN AUTUMN DAYS
Photo: Marilyn Armstrong
By: Garry Armstrong
By: Garry Armstrong
NOVEMBER 2016 – LATE AUTUMN
One bud on the cactus
DECEMBER 2016 – HOLIDAYS AS THE YEAR ENDS
A new day is born – the winter solstice
Uxbridge, winter, night
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
RETROSPECTIVE 2016 | THE DAILY POST DISCOVER CHALLENGE
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I love this! It’s beautiful and inspiring
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Thank you 🙂 It was a good year for pictures. I’m glad it was good for something!
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I enjoyed this look back in photos…. heck, I had actually forgotten about the caterpillar invasion! That seems like years ago for some reason. The 2016 Epidemic didn’t really hit me until the second half of the year, so I guess it’s skewed my perception of time to where June really does seem like that long ago…
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I think the election was so overwhelming, it knocked the rest of the year right out of our heads. I know it did that to me. I almost forget the invasion too … and it was a really big deal when it happened.
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What a splendid idea, Marilyn! I love each month seen through your lense. But maybe I have a special weakness for August and October. Gorgeous pics. Happy New Year 2017! And to many more photos.
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Gorgeous gallery of photos. 😀
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Thanks Cee! I was grateful to be able to find them!
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Looking at the photos, Marilyn, I’d say it was a pretty good year.
Leslie
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At least visually. I’m going to ignore all the rest of it for the moment and enjoy THIS little respite.
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Think you captured most of the good times.
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Fortunately for us all, that’s what we tend to capture. The bad stuff doesn’t need illustrations.
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You don’t need those reminders.
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Does anyone?
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Nope
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Great stuff
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Thanks Rick!
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Beautiful images even if you are glad to say good bye to 2016. Glad to have shared it with you
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And I am delighted to have shared with you. You have come such a long way in the quality of what you do as a photographer. I don’t know if you realize how remarkable you are! Take a victory lap. You have earned it.
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Thank you so much Marilyn, I do hope to keep growing and learning more about how to use my camera!!!
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Me too 🙂 We are always learning. There is so much TO learn, but that’s the fun of it. You can’t ever know everything.
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Great set of pictures, and a lovely idea to put them all together 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 It was the ONLY idea I had. I don’t remember my posts. I’m sure if I spent the time going through the posts one by one, I’d figure it out, but pictures were much easier. MUCH less work 🙂
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Beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you!!
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Great pictures!
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Thanks! It was interesting to me how frequently we both shoot the same scenes. It’s the good and the bad of not doing much traveling 🙂
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these are amazing, marilyn. and here’s to 2017!
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Thanks 🙂 A good year would be nice. I could use one.
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Superb pictures, Marilyn! Wishing you and Garry a happy new year.
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And to you, too. If you use the media library and the old dashboard, it’s pretty easy to put these things together. It took me less than an hour. The hardest part was picking the photos because, like you, I have a lot of them.
Let’s hope for a good year to come 🙂
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I do… though how long we’ll have access now they’re playing again, who knows… 😦
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That was the year that was – great work in piecing that one together. I would not know where to begin.
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All my photo files from the past three years are labeled by month and year. That helps. ALSO, if you use the media library on WordPress, you can sort pictures by month and year, too. There’s a dropdown menu on the dashboard, at least on the old dashboard (which is what I still use). So you can just pick pictures out of your library — which is what I did.
I couldn’t think of a more clever way to collect pictures, so I put them in there by month/year and hope I have a small memory of what I did and what I might have shot.
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I have almost no pictures in wordPress, but online in flickr and I combine them with my writings by html. I would not even know how to do it in wordPress and I have a feeling that I had no problems with the new template for my writing because of that. My photos all have a date on them in my private files, and in flickr the date arrives automatically when I upload them. I would have no problem to find the photos from this year
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I knew you were organized 🙂 It took me forever to get my act together and orgnize the photo files. There are still an awful lot of them. Assignments like this prove to me, though, that it was worth the effort 🙂
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WOW WOW WOW I can’t say it enough, how incredible!!! Your pictures are spectacular!!! Thank you so much for sharing them with us. I love them all!!
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Fortunately, the media library lets me sort stuff by month and year. Otherwise, I couldn’t have done it. Thank you 🙂 It came out better than I expected and I certainly had enough material to work with.
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You do and it was a complete delight
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