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:

The man I married one year ago today is goofy

and sexy

and patient

and loving

and happy

and goes along with 95% of my ridiculous and not-so-ridiculous outing suggestions