When I was little, I used to beg my parents to get a “Hanukkah bush”. Seriously. I’d go on and on how it could be decorated with blue and white tinsel and ornaments and we’d take it down after Hanukkah. Well now I’m all grown up and I married right into a Christian family! I trimmed my first tree the other day with my husband and mother-in-law Barbara.
I have to admit, I tend to get a bit nostalgic as the year draws to a close. What we’ve seen, what we’ve done, who we met and who we loved… I’m a sap for the whole review-and-start-anew mood to late December. For two years in a row now, I’ve taken a self portrait on Dec. 31 and I’m sure I will again this year in what has become my own personal tradition.
you know, that I took.
After processing my San Diego Zoo pictures and briefly discussing zoo photography, I got a hankering to show y’all some of my old zoo photos. From the Chicago Zoo, these are hands-down my favorite zoo photos (of mine) of all time. From the Chicago Zoo: