2025 Photographic Retrospective

 As the clock ticks down to the final moments of 2025, I just want to take a moment and thank all of you for reading. I started this blog 20 years ago or so (if we're counting GreatestJournal and LiveJournal days) and it's been an evolution to get to what it is now. This blog has always been just a place where I can ramble on about one interest or another for me, but that I have so many following along now is mindblowing. I'm humbled. It also gives me a huge bout of impostor syndrome most days, but your encouragement keeps me from pulling the plug! (Well, that, and I just can't help but continue to ramble about the sport of dog mushing.)

I always have great intentions for this space on the web but life keeps getting in the way. Maybe someday I can make it into what I envision. In 2026 I hope to be able to hit all of the race rosters on time with previews and of course the daily Iditarod updates. We'll see what I am able to accomplish.

With that, let's take a look at a few photos from 2025 to close out this very strange year.

2025 started out so magically hopeful with the Aurora dancing over much of Alaska. Being able to slide down my driveway to catch a couple of shots of it over my house with the Christmas lights on made for a couple of lovely shots. It was cold and I was dealing with a lot of traffic coming and going so I couldn't get the angles I wanted - plus I was bone tired - so I didn't quite as many as I'd hoped. Still, the lights gave us all hope and wonder to enter the new year, and I think it lulled us into a false sense of we've got this.