Life of Wry

I spent time today going through the 9,744 photos I took in 2025 looking for the best ones for our Christmas card. No small task.

I selected 23 for Jim to consider as he muscles a year’s worth of photos into an 8 1/2″ x 11″ space. He won’t be able to use all 23, of course; I give him more than he’ll need so he can choose the ones that work best in a collage and at the same time do the best job of representing our year. The collage is always an incomplete story. It would benefit from some sort of narrative, but we’ve never made that a part of our annual card, so no sense starting now! Jim and I are creatures of habit, routine and convenience. We figure most people are just fine with a wordless photo collage, anyway.

I’m fairly confident these will not make the cut, so I’m posting them here.

Something tells me Jim will opt out of this one…taken as we ate dinner this summer at an outdoor restaurant in Bayeux, France. He looks a little stern.

This was taken on a windy walk in Dillon Beach last January. I like it, but it we have a ton of other selfies with far more interesting backgrounds.

I love this shot of us, too, but it’s too similar to another we’re using of Jim and Peter on the same stoop (our tent cabin in Tuolumne Meadows).

This won’t make the cut because, to be interesting, the photo needs all of that sky, the clouds and especially the mountains. But in a tight photo collage, that becomes wasted space… but it’s a great lunch spot, no? It was a fabulous hike in Yosemite in about August.

Stay tuned for the ones that do make the cut.. coming to a Christmas card soon.