A Year in Pictures (And My 2011 Word)

It's been a hell of a year, a hell of a ride and a year that I am happily packing back into its box. It's time to open 2011 and my hands are shaking at the excitement that is to be discovered there.

To the successes, challenges, lessons, losses and experiences gained; to the joy and the thrill of what this year was, I raise my glass. To the year ahead and all the potential it holds, I raise it again. Here's to the closing of this most interesting chapter. And here's to the first, crisp page of the next. Have your ink wells ready, folks, it's time to pen 2011...

In review, I went back through a few of the photos I've used in this blog over the last year, my first year in blogland. Below are collages of a few of my favorite moments of 2010:

Clock-wise from top left:
Fall colors along my beloved Clark Fork River.
Mom and I all dolled up in Disneyland celebrating my 25th Birthday.
Laguna Beach, California; my taste of the Pacific Ocean this year.
My front yard glider with my favorite alpine mountaineering reading material.

Clock-wise from top left:
Finding the therapeutic qualities of painting pottery! Done with my best friend this summer.
Skiing in an epic snow season!
Commemorating my late friend with my yearly hike around Missoula.
One of the lovely weddings attended this summer.

Have fun celebrating New Year's Eve! I am making a
few resolutions and wishes this year, but I also have
chosen a word to inspire me for 2011: Transform
There are going to be a lot of changes in my world this year!