Fast Away The Old Year Passes

 It's New Years Eve and I have had a good last day of 2024.

Our new Farmer's Almanac Calendar says for January 1, "The garden year has no beginning and no end." That is certainly true for us here in the coastal Pacific Nowthwest. There are blooms in my garden on December 31st.

The last rose of 2024, but probably not the last rose.

Primroses are very persistant.

Golden Winter Jasmine is a colorful companion to red cotoneaster berries along the driveway.

Today was a dry and mostly sunny day. We went for a walk in the neighborhood and I accomplished a mile and a half! We had a Zoom meet up with teacher friends, one of whom now lives in Maine. 

I sat at the computer and paid the bills and managed the accounts. I watched a little of the Washington Huskies in the Fiesta Bowl. They lost by going for a two point conversion, instead of a tie. We went to the bird store and bought bird seed for our feeders. Now that the leaves are off the maple tree in front of the house, I like to watch the winter birds, especially when I am doing my Physical Therapy. 

Then we went to the Des Moines Marina to watch the old year fade away. 

There wasn't much color in the sunset today. As the light faded, the lights came on  on the pier,

and the fishermen returned to safe harbor. 

Soon we will go out to Red Robin for a hamburger, and then we'll be back home to our safe harbor to welcome the New Year. There will be fireworks on the Needle, on TV. 

"Hail the New, ye lads and lasses."

Happy New Year!