Happy Holidays

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 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 


It's one more week to Christmas Day and I want to wish a happy holiday season to you all. 2024 has been a lack lustre year with the pandemic still hanging around. I have high hopes for 2025 and am looking so forward to getting out and photographing what I can find out there. I really want to revisit some orchid locations and re-document the flowers with my new camera gear. My first adventure for the new year will probably be me chasing Snowy Owls in the Richmond area, something I look forward to each year, the owls are a beauty of nature that has their arrival in the Ottawa winter months. They are usually up in the Arctic but they fly down as far south as New Jersey in search for easy food. Each year they can be seen perch on hydro poles and in the farmer's fields I don't get very decent photos but it is a marvel to see they beautiful birds in action down here in the south. This Christmas I will be spending time with family and friends rejoicing in holiday merriment but I don't know how I will spend New Year's Eve probably just a quiet night at home watching the ball drop in the NYC. There will be much rest and relaxation for I am taking a week off for the holidays.
 



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