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Gallery: a December selection (2023)

December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future

Ralph Waldo Emerson

After a busy September, October and November (Paris / Chicago / Madagascar / Paris) it was rather pleasant to have a quieter month. Not that I’ve been doing nothing!

We had a friend staying with us right at the start of the month so had some meals out with her. We went to the cinema to see a preview of Priscilla (recommended!) with a Q&A with director Sofia Coppola. I had two Christmas meals: with my photography group, and with some Virtual Tourist friends (two of whom were visiting London from Chicago).

To add further to the Christmas spirit, we went to the Christmas at Kew light trail, the first year we’ve been able to secure tickets. And we invited our lovely next-door neighbours in for Christmas drinks.

And then there was Christmas itself, of course. We spent the day with my family (sister, brother-in-law, two nephews and a niece-in-law). A couple of days later we went up to Newcastle, where I am writing this. Just before the end of the month we got together with some of Chris’s family for a pub lunch. I say ‘some’ because there are a lot of them! On this occasion there were eighteen of us, spanning four generations.  

On a less good note, the leg that got infected after banging it in Madagascar continued to play up. The pain had gone but the infection lingered on, so there were more antibiotics to take, in an attempt to finally resolve it. The jury is out on whether or not we’ve nailed it this time …

Technical notes

All these shots were taken with my phone or with my compact point and shoot Lumix, and were edited with Photoshop Elements and/or Nik Color Efex.

As always I am linking my selection to Ju-Lyn’s and Brian’s Changing Seasons challenge. I’ve tweaked my slideshow setting so you’ll need to use the arrows to navigate if you want to see them all!

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