A wonderful post! As always. Thank you, and I wish you both a great 2007.
Best of the new year to you both.
I've made the same type of mistake in my excitement with wild things - usually a hawk or owl that's almost close enough to photograph. Someday, like you, I'll learn to just be glad for its being near.
a beautiful snowfall on tuesday night brought our power down again, then our cable and internet! what a rocky journey through december! so far no holiday travels for us...we have had our hands busy at home!
thank you for all the wonderful moments of life you share, the insight you provide, the support you have given us readers here and me personally. you are such special people, and i am so glad i found your blog - rurality sent me here many months ago!
wishing you both a new year of continued good health and happiness and many dances in the moonlight and sunlight.
Have a peaceful and charmed New Year. May the Bobcats not be scared out of their fur with noisy celebrators. Many people here in the South shoot off fireworks and I always feel bad for the wildlife animals for the disturbance. In many ways, I relate to the wild animals better than people.
Thanks for a wonderful year of writing and photos, folks.
Very interesting post and has got me thinking about several lasts or "almost lasts" in recent years. This past autumn's trip to the west to travel with a friend was motivated, in part, because our previous trip together had almost turned out to be a last for both of us. Rather weirdly, we both ended up in the ERs of hospitals a couple of months apart in 2005 - we both came close to expiring. We figured we'd better do a trip together this autumn before anything else happened to one or the other. At the end of our wanderings, saying goodbye felt a lot different this time as the possibility of it being for the last time seemed a little more real.
Otherwise, I have similar lasts to some of your own - seeing wildlife that I don't think I'll ever see again, saying goodbye to someone for what I know is the last time. Seeing the last of 2006 seems small by comparison with some of the above. I'm looking forward to what 2007 will bring. Hope it'll be a good year for all.
We won't be going to any New Year's Eve party this year. Would it surprise you if I said we are not party people?
Not at all, Robin. But it's a good thing you were party poeple back in 1988.
Happy New Year to all!
The only real way to be at peace with oneself is to live each day in the present. Right here, right now. That is the way to experience everything for the first time, and for the last time.
Not an easy way to live, but when it happens, life is exhilirating.
Right now, I am just pissed off about my health. I am forgetting to be present, and just spinning wildly into the future. I don't know what it will take for me to get centered but I am working on it.
Hosting good planets for December has been a joy, and I truly hope that everyone signs up for a month.
Would it surprise you if I said we are not party people? In fact, I'll do just about anything to avoid a party.
I'm with you there. I get very jittery and tired if there's more than 4 or 5 people in the room.
"Lasts" have been coming hot and heavy this year, and as we get older, the wakes outnumber the weddings, the goodbyes outnumber the Pleased-to-meet-you's.
I've been trying lately to appreciate more the time that I'm allowed on this old earth, and to make the most of those golden moments as they slip away.
Thank you for enriching our lives, Robin. And a very happy and peaceful 2007 to you and Roger.
Excellent reminders for life. Happy New Year. It's gonna be a good one... as I always hope
I find that most years I get a little melancholy at the end of the year instead of anticipating the new year's unveiling. Opportunities lost, disappointment at lack of self-change, etc. Quite counter-productive in and of itself unless one uses it as motivation. Hey, there's always next year!
Happy New Year to you and Roger. Reading the Blog has been a nice way to keep connected. Stay safe and sane.
I'm always certain of one thing: that stopping by your blog will prove worthwhile and thought-provoking. I love your bobcat stories and will think of them when I'm about to react rather than stop and think (which happens often with young children at home). Best wishes for another lovely New Year to you both. K.
Have a lovely New Years Eve. You know I'm staying in, too.
I don't think that unintentionally scaring a wild creature away in your happy exuberance to get a better look at it is the worst thing.
Some times taking a good long look is the best thing we can do. The end of a year is one of them. Here's lookin' at you two, across the ether divide — happy New Year!
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Thank you, Robin Andrea and Roger, for another year of lively and thoughtful words and photo images, and for creating an ongoing meeting space in your full lives.
happy new year bums and we hope to see your smilin faces in it--peace and love from lynne & gary
A very happy New Year to all. May peace come with the returning light.
Great blog! I happened to find it while blog-hopping. I've linked you. 
Peace,
~Chani
Peace to you both and best wishes for a wonderful 2007. Thank you both so much for enriching my life.
R & R. All the best in 2007. Tjilpi.
Happy new year and happy anniversary!
A happy pre-new year from Squamish, BC, where we're visiting for the weekend!
Re: the bobcat - I used to have the same effect on girls in bars. Like you with the bobcat, I just look at them through windows now.
One "last" that I recognize looms for me: when my mom is no longer there to visit, I will have no further connection to our hometown, and to the area of northwest Ohio that so many generations of my family lived in. It will feel strange to visit there for the last time.
Happy New Year to you Robin and Roger!
we celebrate quietly also, not like the old days! LOL!
oh, I remember that New Years Eve party when we celebrated at 9 pm!! It was wacky and wonderful, and suited my sleep schedule brilliantly.
Thanks for another great year of blogging, of introducing me to blogging, but mostly for just being rock steady good friends. I am truly blessed. Hip hip hooray!!
happy new year to you, bums.
i have many great memories of new years eves gone by. especially those spent with a really fun "house band" these days, we happily stay put.
thanks again for your thoughts and pictures.
happy new year, robin and roger -- you lovely bums!
so much of your post really resonates. we always stay home for new year's eve, and pick the time zone we want to celebrate.
we had a family funeral today, and so lots of thoughts about last times. but seeing so many family together also brings lots of thoughts of renewal, i guess. a cousin has found his true love and will be getting married; his sweetheart is wonderful, and getting high relative approval ratings. the littlest second cousins are cute as buttons, and terribly energetic. we spent time with the half-sister of my uncle by marriage, whom i first met and last saw in about 1969, when she and i both visited the same relatives for a few overlapping days -- how weird is sharing that memory, after all these years?
Love your wonderful post! Thank you and I wish you both a great 2007! Love, Joy, Health and Peace!
The last time I saw a bobcat was one afternoon after we had been to vote. We turned the corner and were about to pull into our drive way. There he stood beside the drive. Mr Pop stopped the car and we all looked at one anther until the bobcat had seen enough of us and he wondered into the woods. I guess if he wants to see us again, he knows where to look.
Happy New Year to you guys and may it bring us peace in some form.
Having just lost a wonderful friend to a car wreck, I can appreciate your "last time" post. My friend was going to go horse riding with us, but something always came up. Either, she was working or I was, or it was raining, or other plans already made. Now, she will never go horse riding with us.
I'm glad your bobcat showed up, again!
Happy New Year.
What could be better than peace in the new year?
And how could it be more successfully achieved than if we looked at every animal, every person, every tree in "last time" terms?
What a beautiful way to end the year. Love to you both.
An inspiration to mindfulness. Thanks and I hope you enjoy the quiet turning of the year.
a wonderful post, i often think of the 'last time' theme too. we just can't hold on to much in the world.
i often think of life the opposite way... for example when i'm with someone i think back to when we first met and wonder what i would have felt knowing how this new person would enter my life in different ways throughout the future. like the quiet girl in the back of freshman chemistry class who became my wife 10 years later.
i wish you both a happy new year!
Have a GREAT New Year!
Happy New Year, ya bums!
Happy New Year my friends. How very much we appreciate your stimulating, thoughtful, beautiful and often poetic posts. You made our year a richer one with these gifts. Peace
Happy New Year, and thanks for your beautiful post.
What a great post! You really made me think about "last times" and "what if." I'm here via Suburban Turmoil. Happy New Year
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