Farewell to 2006

So it is now New Year's eve. Obviously the original intent of this was to post daily pictures for at least the year. Unfortunately for various reasons, (not least was that this new version of Blogger has issues with photo-posting) it didn't happen. I'm certainly not going to worry about it, though.

2006 has been quite a year for Kathryn and I. We managed to survive Vancouver's storm of the century a couple weeks ago. A week without water the month before, when torrential rains raised the turpidity of the water supply to (almost) unhealthy levels. I survived a month of jury duty. Kathryn and I got a kitten we named Sophie. I sold my first photographs. And most significantly, Kathryn and I learned quite a bit about ourselves and each other after a challenging, yet uniquely productive year.

In my personal history it seems every 4 to 6 years I end up experiencing some sort of significant growth, and my view of myself and my world is somehow altered. Even relatively minor shifts can impact my daily living in some way when this does happen. Looking back, 2006 was one such year.

We're not going anywhere nor doing anything tonight. In fact, Kathryn has already been sleeping for the past hour (and it's only 9:30PM). I doubt I'll stay up to midnight myself at this point. It might seem an anti-climactic way to see out 2006 and welcome in 2007, but it's appropriate in a certain je ne sais quoi sort of way.

Grrr..

So I was trying to update this blog of mine, when I was reminded why I stopped posting for a while in the first place... Blogger seems to have broken how easily you can upload photos. I thought it would have been fixed after 2 months, but unfortunately when I was trying to upload today's photo, Blogger came up with error messages. I tried several photos, and even tried resizing them, in case their size was too big, but it still didn't work. This is a pain, since this problem effectively prevents me from being able to keep the theme of this being a photo blog...

Not gone yet!

A bench facing a frozen Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park


OK, so it's been quite awhile since I updated my blog. I guess you could say I was on a bit of a sabattical. It's been quite an eventful 2 months if I do say so myself. I'm not going to get into that right now. I might decide to make a couple retro posts later to catch up a bit.