And That’s a Wrap

Jim Bellomo

5 months ago

Here it is. The last post of my 365 project in 2025. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to not taking a photo today. Not a single one ?. But you know I will probably be taking some in the not-too-distant future. I love photography. For all of you who have been following along faithfully, all I can say is thank you for your words of encouragement. I will be back to do another 365 in 2035. See you then...or the next time I travel.

Actually, there will be a post tomorrow. I always end a year and start a new one with my top 10 photos from that year. So far, I have it narrowed down to 18. So you might get eight honorable mentions and the top ten.

Whew! I almost blew it. I almost forgot to take a photo yesterday. I had planned to take a photo of the front of our house, the one I had tried to take earlier in the month and never got back to. But since I had to wait until it got dark, I forgot all about it. As I was putting my laptop on to charge before we went to bed, I just happened to notice my camera sitting there. YIKES! With only three days to go, I had almost missed it. But I grabbed my shoes and a sweatshirt (it’s been pretty cold at night) and got the shot.

This is my second-to-last shot of 2025. I took it, just to prove to everyone who does not live in the Seattle/Puget Sound region that we have BEAUTIFUL days all year long, even in December. The sun was shining, the temperature was in the mid-40s (just where I like it), and Keeley and I went for a walk in the forest.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls…this is it. As of today, I have taken a single photo (sometimes more) every day of 2025. This is it. The last one, and it features me, the love of my life, and our forever neighbors (Jayesh and Lisa—neither of us lives where we were neighbors). A few years back, we started going out to dinner on New Year’s Eve because we lived across the street from a great restaurant. We missed last year after Lisa’s mom passed, but now we live on Redmond Ridge, and they have moved to Camano Island (about an hour and a half north of us). We decided to get together, with me doing dinner and them doing appetizers, and we will switch for next year. These people are two of our best friends in the world, and we hope to be able to celebrate many more New Year’s Eves with them. Next year, we go to their place.

Big News for this website

One more piece of big news (that I hope you never actually see happen) is that I am moving this blog to a new server. I have been with WordPress.com since I started it in December 2018, but they recently raised their prices. I also host other URLs I own with the web hosting company Bluehost. I have now moved the entire blog over to Bluehost. That means that right now, as you are reading this on WordPress.com, there is a duplicate version on Bluehost. All I have to do, sometime between now and January 14, is click a switch, and it will move my URLs over to the new service. You shouldn’t have to do a thing, and I hope all my current subscribers will still receive their notifications. More about this just before it happens. If we somehow lose you, go to www.jimbellomo.com

So, here's my final three photos for 2025. My favorite of these is last night's dinner when we were joined by our forever neighbors, Jayesh and Lisa, to resume our annual New Year's Eve tradition.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. ? Ansel Adams