I always enjoy going back over the posts I've made over the past year to remember how the year unfolded. The twelve photos I've chosen usually represent the seasons as they changed, and sometimes they might even be good photos, but not always. The collection certainly reminds me of what I enjoyed about 2025; hope you enjoy them too.
January - My memory of last winter is of lots of SNOW, deep snow creating six foot snowbanks. But in spite of that we started out with a January thaw and visions of green grass between the white patches!
February - But in February the snow did arrive, and it piled up just like the snow on our snowstick's back, light, fluffy and deep. Without a thaw it just accumulated relentlessly.
March - By March the world out front looked like this, deep snowbanks you could not even see over. Backing out was tricky!
April - Then magically April arrived, the snow melted and the earliest of our spring flowers bloomed, these deep blue dwarf Iris.
Msy - By May many things were in bloom, including our beautiful Red Bud.
June - In June we undertook our annual pilgrimage to Petrel Point Nature Reserve, a Great Lakes fen ecosystem. This property has a boardwalk I can safely ride. These are Grass Pink, taken in an earlier year.
July - In late July our own garden is in full bloom, with the blue Lavender and bright red Day Lilies among many other flowers.
August - August is the time we look for Monarch butterflies, and we're usually successful in finding a few.
September - In September we drove up to Big Bay, a great beach for skipping rocks, with a convenient ice cream outlet nearby.
October - This year we went on our longest adventure yet, all the way up to Tobermory where I posed in front of the Bruce Trail cairn, joining many others who have completed an 'End-to-End' hike. This was undoubtedly the highlight of the year for me!
November - Fall this year was postponed for a whole month, bringing the coloured leaves I always saw in mid- October, instead in mid-November, the clearest sign of changes in the schedule of the seasons due to climate change that I've experienced.
December - Winter came early this year, bringing us nearly a foot of snow before Christmas. Unfortunately for the kids, it nearly all melted by Christmas. It's back now though, as I write this 3 days before the year ends. This was the best year yet!
What a great year-end recap! Glad you are getting out and enjoying nature when you can.
ReplyDeleteWith 2025 not being too bad a year, we can only hope that 2026 is even better.
ReplyDeleteWishing you and MRS FG a Safe and Happy New Year.
It's about time.
That was wonderful! Thank you for your year-round review.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and the Mrs.