Favorite Images of 2022

If there was a year that would typify Dickens’ “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” it would be 2022. But isn’t every year like that?

It started quite ominously, with Omicron surging in these parts, but somehow we made it through and were able to travel.

Flume Gorge, NH

Walden Pond, MA

Covered bridge, NH

Berkshires

Back Bay

Esplanade, Boston

I have lots of good memories from that visit to the US Northeast.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. For much of early 2022, it almost seemed like “2020 Too.” But there was always nature to cheer us up.

Throughout the year, we had flowers.

Yellow bell

Sunflower

Canna lily

Coneflower

Plumeria

Lots of flowers. And bugs.

Clearwing tiger moth

Blue glassy tiger

Blue bottle fly

Bee on African Daisy

And birds, too.

White throated kingfisher

American hawk

Black crow

Black crowned night heron

And at night the company of the moon.

Crescent moon

During the total lunar eclipse

Not far from home, I found peace in mountains and lakes.

In these fleeting moments, I am reminded that, while in one part of the world the sun is setting, in another part the sun is rising at exactly the same time.

It’s hard to capture in photos, but if there’s one overwhelming feeling I have about the year just past, it is gratitude.

Life is a gift. I am grateful.

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(For LAPC: Favorite Images of 2022)