A Happy New year to all.

2025 is now history, and let's all hope for better things in 2026.

I will try to show you the old year with some pictures, and then our hopes for the new year.

Let's face it, 2025 was tough for most everyone across the world, in one way or another. If it's not wars, fires, floods, accidents, and a wheelbarrow full of other problems, then the weather had much to say. In many cases, not good news. Economies are crashing, protests everywhere, and many participants arrested or killed. But enough about the bad news, as we hope and pray that the light will drive out the darkness, as usual.

I think sanity has become a spare hobby for many, as we as humans can get up to unbelievable things. One look at the news headlines is enough to make one's head spin, and so we rather avoid the news as much as possible. Nature keeps us steady, and we get into it at any opportunity, and that's where we find our peace. We know that the light will always beat the dark, and even if things look very bad there is always a cloud with a silver lining available.

With the two photos below, I tried to describe the year 2025.

But like I said, the light will always beat the dark.

Let me show you how the light beats the dark, and we hope that 2026 will also experience this.

Slowly, ever so slowly, the light started to come in.

Looks like a watercolor painting, doesn't it?

Soon, things started to clear and the darker clouds ran away.

It is said, let there be light, and there was light.

Just to end the post with some life in the flowers.

So, I don't know what you are hoping for, but I hope that you will have grace to meet with all your wishes. Life has its own way of sorting things out, very much like you saw in the photos here, and the main part of it is to have patience and perseverance. No short cuts, mind you, as quick fixes never work well. They might work in the short term, but eventually it ends up in drama.

So be it, and it is what it is in all our lives. Kindness will always make things better, but that is also becoming a rare commodity, because most everyone is in a perpetual rush. Chasing after the wind. I was the same for many years, until I learned that my curse was the great "Want". Nothing could satisfy me, as I always wanted more, until I came to the conclusion to bin the want, and now I live in contentment.
Such is life.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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