On-TheEdge: 2020-The Year in Pictures

Thursday, January 7, 2021

2020-The Year in Pictures

7 days late and 7 months or so since my last post. Seems national tragedy spurs these things. After yesterdays attempted coup, and make no mistake, it cannot be called anything else, we all will see what today brings.

For now, maybe some pictures. I joked yesterday that maybe it wasn't the day to post pretty rime ice photos, but maybe it is exactly the right time. A distraction from the chaos. For quite a few years I have published my favorite pictures of the previous year. They may be my favorites for very different reasons-some may be great photographs, others just a memory or a marker of a different time and place. Some, just because and I have no other reason than that.

What follows are kind of in chronological order except the first-I start with a "pretty rime ice" picture.

Rime Ice on "Fragments" The Highground Memorial Park

Rime Ice at the Tailings Pond-Lake Wazee

Lab on Ice-Reed Farm

Truly Snow Angels

Century Oak

Spring Thaw

This was the start of the lockdown, the pandemic, the failed responses to the first national crisis of 2020 and it didn't have to go the way it ultimately did. 5000 dead in Wisconsin, 350,000 across the country and many who still call it a hoax and refuse to do their part to help. That yesterday happened doesn't surprise me-it's been building to that with complacency from some of our "leaders." It was allowed to happen and for some, it was wanted. For a few images that follow are many long sullen walks as we all take life day by day when so much is out of our control.