Last Day, part 2

A gentle day,

a calm sea on the last day of 2010.

Taken just after 3:00 on the town beach.

Good-bye 2010. Welcome 2011!

For more(and far more riveting) photos, check out The Boston Globe's The Big Picture.

If you scroll down, there is a three-part look back at 2010 with bold images from all over the globe. Some are painful to see. Others simply beautiful.

Last day

Listening to the near quiet of a cold "last-day-of-the-old year".

Just heard the faint sound of that whirring sound swans make as they fly over the roof,

can hear the buzz of the computer modem in here,

and also the chickadee's "dee-dee" song outside my window.

Feeling a little low today. Fight with the husband last night. Not feeling like celebrating tonight. Might start off the arrival of 2011 with some painting/drawing, which I really have not done much of since October, when I painted the wary ( and also weary?) eyed woman above.

Music of 2010

My personal favorite musical discoveries and performers of 2010.....

* Guster (long time perennial favorites-and their newest album's songs were often ear worms for days at a time),
* Jamie Cullum (ditto, and seeing him live at the Newport Jazz Festival this summer was a highlight of my entire year),
* Adele,
* Rodrigo y Gabriela,
* Trombone Shorty,
and...
* The Avett Brothers (Mr. F turned me onto these guys)


Guster- Architects and Engineers
Jamie Cullum at Newport, Summer 2010



Adele ~ Rolling In The Deep



Rodrigo y Gabriela ~ Hanuman (or...check out their official video here)


Trombone Shorty ~ One Night Only (live on Letterman)


The Avett Brothers ~ January Wedding

Literary Looking Back...

...on 2010.
This is the week when we usually begin to take stock of the fast fading year.
Our best(and worst ) moments, favorite films, music and books. Even though I am sure I am forgetting one or two books, these were my favorite books of the year:


* The Girl Who Played With Fire ~ Stieg Larsson

* A Year In The World ~ Frances Mayes

* I Am The Messenger ~ Markus Zusak

* The Forgotten Garden ~ Kate Morton

* When Will There Be Good News? ~ Kate Atkinson

* The Girl With No Shadow ~ Joanne Harris

and rereading:

* My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell(and getting to introduce this book to my book club and learning that everyone loved this book like I do!)

And that is all for this entry, even though I had at first considered describing(or trying to) the dream I had just before waking this morning. Both my husband and I and...John Lydon(AKA Johnny Rotten) were in it. But it is already evaporating from my memory...
I could have also gone into detail about my already growing post-holiday blue mood. Not a full blown depression, but a feeling of disatisfaction and "is that all there is?". But, it is off to the Job for now (which may or may not contribute to this mood even more).
And, even though the date at the top says it is Tuesday, Dec. 28,
it is actually Wednesday, Dec. 29.
I started to list my favorite books last night and saved it as a draft and cannot figure out a way to update the date.

The Day After

A photo tour of the town, Dec. 26, 2010 just as the blizzard was beginning....

Main Street mostly deserted, and shops closed.....

....except Phil's Restaurant open for breakfast.

Me peering into the windows.....

..my gloveless hands beginnning to freeze...

...a gingerbread display/contest in the hairstylist's window

Sheldon's Furniture, still in business since 1858

Old stuff....