Last Year was a good one

The wordpress photo challenge suggested showing last year in photos, and I tried hard but it became an excuse for browsing through the thousands now deep inside the amazing tiny volume of 0.00125 cu.m. [a pretty good 4GB volume in computer terms but it sounds really really tiny in cubic metres - it must be the kind of size which matters]. A lovely way to waste spend several hours.

Last year was a good one – on January 1st 2012 I was on holiday in sunny Sanya, Hainan Island, China, before returning to freezing Shanghai (son no.1 and twin grandsons, then 4, now 5). Then time in Edinburgh (son no. 3 who succeeded in getting a studentship for his research) time in Manchester, England, to celebrate big sister’s 70th birthday, time in Cornwall with the friend I have known more or less continuously for 50 years, more time in Edinburgh and that was all in the first 5 months of the year. The rest, in Block Island (son no.2, family with my 3 grand-daughters live near). Wonderful. I got the photos down to 30, and even then have not managed to cover all nor can I rate what is in against what I left out.

January 1st 2012 – Ali, waiting for lunch in Sanya

January – Shanghai XinTian Di

Return to Edinburgh – delights of the city – this is St Cecilia’s Hall

February – snowdrops

February in Edinburgh – glorious weather – a view from the canal-side walk

March, Cornwall beaches

March, in Plymouth, Devon

April – The quick treat myself jaunt to Block Island – leaving Point Judith

April – getting the boat fit for summer

April – birthday girl3 lights her cake

May – back in Edinburgh, the Meadows blossom outside my home

May – somewhere in Scotland – bluebells

Early June, Edinburgh Modern Art Gallery – reflections

June – birthday girl 2 – beach party

July – bird-banding at the Ocean View conservation

July 4th

August – beach time

August – when the beach is too hot, find a dock to jump off

September – a sunflower on my deck – the basil, parsley and tomatoes have been a great success too

Finn, 2 months old, exploring his new home

Late September beach and dunes to sit watching the surf

October – broke the Granny mug

October 3rd, birthday girl1. The first year I have been to all three girls’ birthdays

Mid-October – quiet dock area, no boats no swimmers jumping in

30th October – after Hurricane Sandy – from roughly the same place as the surf-watching – picture above – never the same again

Hallowe’en

November a quiet day at Fresh Pond

November – Thanksgiving Welcome

December walk – the same dog!

December, Christmas piano student recital

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