Originally, I didn’t plan to another type of 2019 wrap-up, but in the last hours of 2019, I made a photo array of my top 12 photos of the year. These photos were all taken by me, and I won’t claim they are of great quality by any stretch of the imagination. They also don’t represent the best or worst moments of the year, or the most memorable, or one per month. They are simply my favorite photos of the year, chosen from a pool of several hundred. (I take a LOT of photos.) In no particular order:

1) Morrigan’s selfie with Captain Morgan (January)

2) Laurence and Ambrose squeezed into my buzzard party coffin (March)

3) Jojo and I cuddle on the one-year anniversary of his adoption (February)

4) Laurence’s ridiculous fish harem pants (December)

5) Halloween ghost with visible face (September)

6) a portrait of depression (May)

7) Ambrose’s Mardi Gras mask that he walked home from school wearing… (March)

8) “best brothers” at Morrigan’s graduation (June)

9) cardinal (and cowbird) eggs in the tree by our garage (May)

10) Ambrose showing off his new llamacorn shirt (July)

11) an aerial view of our xeriscaped yard (May)

12) my nephew Kyler all snuggled up (July)