JANUARY - Krewe du Vieux was All Fired Up!
FEBRUARY - The New Orleans Saints won SuperBowl XLIV which made QB Drew Brees our Bacchus XLII. All hail!
MARCH - Attended my second Where2.0 conference in San Jose, CA, where I did not play pool with OpenStreetMap founder, Steve Coast.
APRIL - In Madison, WI for the Department of Geoscience Alumni Board meeting. Of great interest then was the meteorite that had just landed in southwest Wisconsin and a sample that the UW Geology Museum obtained. The BP oil spill had also just begun.
MAY - Memorial Day weekend brings the Class A Arabian Horse Show to the Ohio Expo Center. These beauties were our neighbors' contestants this year.
JUNE - Hay baling in Northeast Ohio
JULY - Downtown Columbus, OH
AUGUST - Back in New Orleans for the launch of A Howling In The Wires and the fifth annual Rising Tide blogger conference. I moderated the Treme panel of Eric Overmyer, Becky Northcut, Dave Walker, Lolis Elie and Davis Rogan. The smell of Sardines In Louisiana Hot Sauce that Davis placed in my hand has still not washed off.
SEPTEMBER - Fort Collins, Colorado
SEPTEMBER - Chicago for a weekend with Athenae (and her adorable ferret trifecta), Anne and Lisa. And a record number of photographs from the Art Institute.
OCTOBER - The Dude at the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear in Washington, D.C. What point the rally made I do not know, but we had a blast wandering amongst our own on a beautiful day in the nation's capital.
NOVEMBER - A wonderful week in and around Dublin, Ireland (as opposed to Dublin, Ohio) with Domingo and Mark. The 20+ pubs we hit were great, but what call me back are the hills and hiking trails of the beautiful glacier-carved Glendalough and its monastery. I have to return soon. Like tonight.
DECEMBER - Orlando, FL for the annual I/ITSEC conference. It was very nice to catch up with old friends and take pictures of domesticated hotel ducks without a) scaring them or b) falling in their pool.
Note: Thanks to geobloggers Silver Fox and GeoTripper for inspiring me to do this post. Check out their beautiful travel photographs, too.
Happy Holidays, dear Matri. I very much enjoyed your year in travel photos. That painted horse is the most gorgeous creature and every month there is something very special. Your life would exhaust and terrify me but makes for a wonderful vicarious adventure. I hope 2011 is wonderfully abundant in every way that matters to you.
Season’s greetings to you, too, Anita! This post exists so that, when I complain I’m bored or am looking for something to do, I can simply pull it up and tell myself to slow down. In the coming years, I’d like to do fewer things better; I’ve picked more sleep, better writing and taking good photographs as key 2011 activities. All the best to you and thanks for reading!
Your blog is my homepage and I am disappointed when it is unchanged from the previous day though I realize even you can’t post everyday. Today is finer than fine!
Seasons greetings to you and himself.