On this last day of this tumultous year, I thought I’d look back through my photos and pick a dozen shots, one for each month. Nature has provided me with much solace, as it does every year, but this year its solid continuity has been especially calming.
I hope the year ahead provides you similar comfort and that no matter where the road takes you, you find a quiet peace at the end of each day. Wishing you health and much happiness in 2021. Thank you for being you. ❤
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So beautiful I had to click through a second time. A very happy New Year to you and yours! Looking forward to seeing your 2021 photos.
Thank you kindly, Laurie. Sending you and Clif all the best!
You convey a breath of hope and beauty, Thanks You
Thank you!
How lovely❣️Thank you so much Eliza. It’s such a joy to connect with on WP. Thank you for being a part of my week 💕
Thanks, Val. I feel the same. 🙂
All these gorgeous flowers, and the photo that gave me lengthy pause was the clouds reflected in a lake (?) Have a wonderful New Year Eliza!!
Thank you, Chris!
Wishing all a year filled with joy and hope
Thank you, Karen. Ditto!
I always love seeing photos of your perennial garden which seems to appear out of nowhere in (late) spring! The first photo with the bee is also lovely. Eliza, I wish you and your family all the very best for 2021. ⭐️🤗⭐️
Thank you very much, Cathy. The same right back at you! x
I started blogging this year, and with that, started focusing more on enjoying and photographing my small garden. The wonder and beauty in nature are welcomed counterpoints to 2020. Thanks for sharing your images.
One of my earliest posts was “The People by the Side of the Road.” I felt compelled to write it, then forget it. But, 2020 insists on bringing it back to mind.
Perhaps 2021 will be better. I’m glad I found your blog. Have a happy and safe new year!
Many thanks, Jerome. The blogging community is wonderfully supportive. Best wishes for the year ahead!
Happy New Year Eliza! Thank you for sharing your 2020 life lessons and reflections. We all have so much to learn. And this is why we were born – to grow.
Thank you kindly, Andrea!
Thank you for a beautiful year’s round up. Nature has been my solace too. Health and happiness to you!
Thank you, Susan!
So much beauty here, Eliza. Thank you for sharing your beauty, and your self, with us. ❤
Thank you, Robin. And I thank you for the same sharing of your talents. x
What a wonderful retrospective. I’ve enjoyed your blog so much since beginning to follow it; here’s to a new year rich in new vision and new joys.
Hear, hear! Thank you, Linda.
What a beautiful collection of nature images, Eliza.
Hopefully, 2021 will bring lots more magical moments on your walks to share with us overseas. Keep safe and in good health. 🙂
Thank you for your comment and visit, Vicki. I hope you are well and best wishes for 2021.
I LOVE THIS POSTING!!! Such beautiful photos & a wonderful way to remember the gardens & flowers of 2020. And we must take heart in the fact that we will see these scenes again soon. Happy New Year!
Thank you very much! 🙂 Yes, it won’t be all that long before the snowdrops and crocus will be blooming again. ❤
Stunning photos Eliza. Happy New year to you too and may it be a continually healthy one xx
Amen to that, thanks much, Alison!
All beautiful images, Eliza. I started out with the same idea of selecting a single photo to represent each month but as usual I got carried away…Best wishes for a happy new year. I’m hopeful, yet also wary.
Thanks, Kris, it isn’t easy to pick just 12! 🙂
I feel the same… cautiously optimistic!
Your retrospective definitely lifts the spirIts! Happy New Year!
Thank you, Ellen!
Some beautiful ways to remember nature’s enduring ways. Hope 2021 brings you and your family good health and happiness.
Thank you very much, wishing you the same.
Eliza, thank you for this “look back” — it’s always a pleasure viewing your photos.
Wishing you all the best for the New Year!
Thank you, Betty! ❤
Happy New Year, Eliza! I have enjoyed your Blog immensely.
Thank you very much, Gary. 🙂 Wishing you and yours a healthy and pleasant 2021.
Beautiful captures from each of your month’s. Love the Cedar Waxwing! Best of health and happiness in the New Year, Eliza!
Thank you, Donna. Glad to have your company as we walk through the seasons. 🙂
Such excellent selections Eliza. It must have been hard to settle on a dozen, but you’ve managed to represent your beautiful and interesting blog so well. Hope this year brings good health and happy gardening.
Thank you very much, Susie. Wishing you the same. 🙂
A beautiful collection of images, Eliza! Happy 2021 to you.
Thank you, Sandy!
Sure!
A beautiful way of remembering the year past, leaving one with a feeling of hope for the future. Let us all give this year a chance 🙂
Thank you, Anne. Bushels of hope moving forward!
Your pick of photos are lovely, what a refreshing start. Cheers to a mindful, beautiful 2021 ❤
Thank you, Maria. 🙂
A fine retrospective
Thank you, Derrick
And thank YOU for being YOU. Such a lovely set of pictures, each one a gem! Wishing you the very best things for 2021!
Thank you kindly, Cathy! x
Thank you for such a beautiful post this morning, Eliza… a brilliant way to start the year!
Thank you, Anita – may this year be better than last!
Most definitely!
I don’t know how you managed to pick just a few favourite photos, Eliza. You post so many gorgeous scenes! The collection you chose are beautiful though, and I look forward to your “vase” photos again when the weather warms up. 🙂
Happy New Year. ❤
Thank you very much, Joanne. It was tempting to do more than one a month, but I stood firm! 😉
Simple, yet beautiful words to start 2021. Happy New Year to you! May 2021 be an improvement!
Thank you, Frank, may it be so!
Happy New Year. I start everyday looking at beautiful garden photos and yours always remind me of home.
Thank you, nature is our balm for sure. 🙂
Each photo so perfect, through the lens of a nature-appreciater. An awesome share. Best wishes for a wonderful, happy and healthy 2021.
Thank you, Alice. Hoping for a much better year!
I guess that you are looking forward to snow melting and uncovering your garden. Tis year, for the first time, I went regularly to the beach and just loved the shape of the clouds and the weeks when buttercups covered the grass just behind the beach huts. Happy New Year
Thank you, Diana. I envy your access to the ocean, I miss visiting the beach. Maybe next summer, restrictions will be lifted. Hope!
We are so lucky – a mile from the beach and about 8 miles to the country
Perfect!
I see many photographers doing this! I want to too! (But that might be me the procrastinator talking… I’m already “behind schedule” putting my phone in another room and finishing grading theses student essays…) Happy New Year, dear Eliza! 💕
Thank you, Laura Denise! HNY!
Beautiful message and beautiful pic !
Thank you, Harold!
Is the beautiful, large, yellow flower a Camellia or a Ranunculus? And Calla Lily…which I love.
Ranunculus… a winter flower I love to buy.
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Very nice series of images Eliza! Enjoyed seeing them!
Thank you, Reed!
Even though 2020 was a weird one, we can look back at many happy and blessed moments through the photos we have. What we have discovered and learned in 2020 are precious moments. I wonder what we will find in 2021? Have a great and blessed 2021! Be safe, and stay well by friend!
Thank you very much, Lonnie! You’re right, there were many special moments this year and those are what we best focus on. 🙂
…and the pink flowers w/ the bee at the top? I have no clue!
Swamp azalea with carpenter bee. 🙂
Beautiful flowers, feathered family, and a stone wall – nice. 🙂 Happy 2021.
Thank you, Judy!
Lovely. I look forward to spending another year with you Eliza. Happy & Healthy New Year! 🤩🌃🎆✨🍾
Ditto! Thanks, Cindy!
A delightful series, Eliza, each bringing back a strong memory, and reminding me of my deep appreciation of your posts all year long.
Thank you kindly, Pete, much appreciated!
Beautiful Eliza. Happy anew Year✨💕🕊
Thank you, Stormie! ❤
Thank you for wishing best..Happy New Year 💜
Thank you.
Nature has provided some balance and pleasure in a year that had little. Lovely selection, Eliza. Happy New Year to you!
Thank you, Belinda. We’d be lost without nature’s solitude. 🙂
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So many peaceful moments enjoyed this year visiting your corner of the world. Loved your wonderful selection of photos and those beautiful floating clouds remains a favorite among the other favorites!! Happy New Year!!
Thank you! ❤
Nostalgia, however happy new year
Merci, and for reblogging, too.
Beautiful images for the end of the year Eliza. Wishing you all the best for this one!
Thank you very much, Andrea!
Thank you very much, Eliza waters
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Thank you, Jill.