2010 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.

10 Jan 2010
This beautiful tree haunted the winter landscape this morning.  

3 Feb 2010
Smelts: sweet and succulent Osmeridae that gaily don their egg-and-flour bathing suits before easing into a Jacuzzi of hot oil; in the hands of a Greek or Southern person, they are utterly orgasmic to the palate.

14 July 2010
I haven’t bothered to write in a while. 

17 Aug 2010
One more for the back porch collection: Lesser Angle-winged Katydid - Microcentrum retinerve.

6 Dec 2010
Winter’s first true snows have blanketed the yards in our neighborhood. 

~ Fin ~


My 2009 Year-End Meme was slightly better (although not by much.) The absence of posts is a direct reflection of the hardships we endured in 2010. It was a year where we desperately needed the physically comforting touch of family but made do with long-distance phone chats.

My outlook for 2011 is much brighter.





For fun: 2008 Year-End Meme [AnnieElf started it!]
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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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