It's the end of the year and therefore time for all the assorted "Year in Review" lists and such.  So, without much ado or explanation, here are some of my favorite photos from this year. 
 

And here's wishing everyone who reads this a Creative and Productive and Happy New Year.
 

Downtown Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge
 

Lichen
 

Great Blue Heron
 

Pair of Bald Eagles
 

Least Skipper
 

Fort Snelling painted firing line
 

Fort Snelling Cannon Fire sepia