Sepia Scenes: Winter


My last Sepia Scene of the year.





Original.


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Year End Meme

The objective of this meme is to reflect back upon the year. Flip through your blog and look at the very first entry for each month. Take the first sentence from that entry. Cluster them into a single post (as seen below) and tag other friends so that they might do the same.




1 January, 2009
The first day of the New Year is unique: it is the only day of the year that we awake brimming with a sense of freshly baked optimism for the future and all the changes we must morph through in order to achieve it.

4 February, 2009
Feathery snowflakes whirl past my office window; buffeted by the wind, they rise towards the sun.




2 March, 2009
I wanted to jot down the fuzzy noise inside my head regarding the past seven days.

1 April, 2009
Monday was Mum’s first post-op appointment.

19 May, 2009
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. (quote)

15 June, 2009
Once upon a time, when I was much smaller and less inclined to pay bills and taxes, I would crawl into a pampas grass clump armed only with a blanket and a can of bug spray that I had stolen from the garage.


3 July, 2009
The thunder rolls about like a stray bowling ball, a precursor to a chilly downpour; I’ve paused in my writing to contemplate my possibly precarious (and weather controlled) fate during tomorrow’s mission.



4 August, 2009
I haven't much free time right now.


It really is more impressive if you've actually blogged a full year (haha!)
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