It’s time to make New Year’s resolutions! Assuming Covid-19 is brought under control, Peggy and I highly recommend that you resolve to spend time in the Southwestern US and visit the National Parks. Here are a few final photos that Peggy and I took this past year and included in our family calendars.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES. –Curt and Peggy
NEXT: Blog a Book Tuesday. Orvis comes to the rescue and forever earns my gratitude. We have an 18-mile day with only one water stop. A Trekker loses himself. One of our 11 year olds kicks dirt on a timber rattlesnake bigger than he is. Charlie saves me from being hung.
Wandering through Time and Place 
Happy New Year to you both. Rather worn out by this one…
Hard not to be AC! May life return to at least a modicum of normalcy in 2021. The ver best to you, your family and the wonderful crew you work with. –Curt
There are so many spectacular National Parks in US, and your photos are gorgeous, it is so easy to convince us to visit them🙂 Hopefully 2021 will bring us good, and we will be able to travel again soon! Happy New Year to you and Peggy!
Unending beauty, Christie.
I’m convinced that 2021 will be better. 🙂 It has to be. Still… it will take some convincing. Peggy and I worked to make 2020 tolerable and succeeded to a degree, but I am looking forward to waking up in the morning without some new trauma or crisis.
Sorry, I couldn’t take up your challenge. It looked like a lot of fun but I just didn’t have the time.
The very best to you and your family in 2021! –Curt
I keep repeating myself too, it has to be a better year. I think we really need to strongly believe, and it will come🙂 No worries about the challenge, I don’t do them either, as not much time – this was the only exception LOL
All the best in 2021!
Christie
🙂 It’s how I intend to behave.
A number of people I follow have lots of fun with the challenges, Christie. That was a good one. But I never have time to write about the material I gather… 🙂
Rocks and trees: a perfect combination, and more varied than some people would expect. Here’s to more great combos in 2021!
Pretty much guaranteed, Linda. Thanks. I shared your post on the wonderful marble machine with our grandkids, today. They were fascinated. –Curt
Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos. I wish you and yours a very Happy New Year!
Thanks, Cheryl. Glad you enjoyed the photos and a very Happy New Year back to you. –Curt
I prefer your images to that of a city!
All the best you two.
Different worlds, G! The best to you and your family as well. –Curt
Happy New Year Curt and Peggy.
May 2021 be better!
Alison
To you and Don as well. May 2021 be better! Yes. Any better is going to be appreciated. 🙂
Happy New Year. Here’s hoping 2021 is kinder to us all.
Total agreement, Peggy! The very best to you and your family. –Curt
Happy New Year, and let rocks, mountains and trees remain the norm for all of us.
And that, Gerard, is one grand wish!
Some splendid photos Curt, and I love the suggested New Year’s Resolution. Tara and Brynnen have decided to do a NP road trip next year, in celebration of Tara graduating (fingers crossed) and both of them getting engaged (which I suspect is going to happen along the road trip…). For Christmas, I bought Brynnen an annual parks pass, so the kids can just go wherever they want. Every year spent appreciating rocks, mountains, and trees as Gerard said, is a good year. Love you both, (and Bone!) Crystal
Really hard to beat a road trip through America’s National Parks as a way to celebrate both graduating and an engagement. The very best to Tara and Brynnen. Peggy and I are lucky to have the forever passes for seniors. 🙂 I think we paid $10 for it.
Gerard is right!
Bone adds his best wishes to the one we have already sent, Crystal. –Curt and Peggy
Happy New Year to you and Peggy! Glad to say I’ve been to many National parks out West. Totally awesome experiences you never forget. An investment in oneself. But still more to see! Your photos always serve as a great lure! Always beautiful! May you have many more adventures in 2021!
Thanks much, Gail. The parks call me back again and again… like a magnet. The very best to you in 2021, and the continuation of your exploration of genealogy and the past. –Curt
Completely understandable and it’s great you don’t have to go too far to see so much beauty. Looking forward to seeing what you & Peggy get up to in 2021!
Thanks, Gail. Mischief, I’m sure. 🙂 –Curt
Wishing you and Petty a happy and healthy new year. Hoping the next one is an improvement!
Love all the images of a favorite section of this great country of ours. We are so blessed to be able to enjoy it.
I like that, Gunta. It’s how I feel. Blessed because there is so much beauty and blessed because we can get out an enjoy it. –Curt
Just noticed my typo…. it’s PeGGy. The ‘g’ and the ‘t’ are just too danged close together sometimes.
Not to worry. I totally name someone else in a recent comment I made because her comment made me think of another blogger! 🙂
Curt and Peggy, we LOVE your Southwest Calendar Series. Your photos are stunning – and certainly the best gift ever. Like you we are huge fans of the area and all its beauty. Thank you both for making 2020 so much more bearable. Wishing you a fabulous 2021. 🙂 Terri & James
It was fun putting the calendars together and then sharing the photos on WP, Terri and James. We used to make the calendars but had gotten away from it for a while. Covid gave us the time to play with it again, Thanks, much. –Curt and Peggy
Wishing you and Peggy the best for this year.
Thanks, Aarti. And the same to you. –Curt
We drove by the Capital Reef park – I think it is under-rated! Would love to get back in there and do some backpacking.
Yes to that, Pam! 🙂