I struggled a bit with the title of this post, I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures from this year. However, they may not be my most favorite. I am including just those that I have posted to the blog. I ended up selecting one picture from each month.

Here we go:

Here is a picture of January fog in the Central Valley. I like the silhouettes of the trees. I always like driving by these trees that line a lane to a farm house.

This picture is a bit out of focus, but in February I was able to capture a shot of a Red Tail Hawk flying away from me.

In March I was in Tokyo and took this picture of a bicycle parked in front of the new Olympic Stadium that was under construction.

One of my favorite pictures from April is of a Carpenter Bee in my rose garden.

I used this picture in my post yesterday, but it was taken in May and first used in a post then. This beautiful old bridge is in Jena, Germany.

A sunrise picture at Khirbet al-Ra’i in Israel is one of my favorite pictures from June.

In July I was in Brazil and this picture of a hippopotamus is one of my favorite pictures from a visit to the zoo.

In August I was visiting friends in Toronto and captured a picture of this nice little lizard.

In September I was home and captured another creature in my rose garden. Here is a nice praying mantis.

I decided that at least one of my favorite pictures had to be of food. In October I had a nice Tenderloin sandwich at a Zesto’s in Omaha. If you have not had a tenderloin sandwich, you are missing out on some good food.

In November I had some really good tea from Bird Pick Tea. The tea leaves from this Tiekuanyin Oolong Tea were quite interesting. I just got a sample of this tea, but will be looking for some more soon. Unfortunately this tea is not in their regular offerings, and wasn’t even supposed to be in the sampler.

A picture for December was hard to pick. I have not had a lot of time to reflect on which was my favorite and I have a lot of pictures I liked from the posts this month. However, I really do like this picture of frosty leaves that I took during a walk to work in Jena, Germany.

Which of these pictures do you like the best?

Steven