All of the above to all of you from all of us -- though if you're living somewhere warm, we wish you a variation on the theme; say... an Iced Drink?We rang in the newest year high up in the Vosges with our beloved parents/grandparents/parents-in-law, seeing the old year out with a hike into the heights and the snow; a round of Riesling and pie wedges in a chalet way up thar (not pictured below); a walk back down through the mountain's layers of snowflakes, then snowdrops, then rolling fog; a well-earned return to the warmth of the farmstead; a light and luscious meal; a dance to the lively music the radio's classical station offered us up, and which Tomi inspired us all to take up on; the crémants we'd got at the organic winemaker's in Andlau the day before; and (also not pictured below) a bouquet of fireworks as the fog closed in at midnight, turning the last page of another year's chapter in our lives.
Here are a few images from the above-described last day of the year:
