Scenes from New Year's Day 2018....

 "This New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365  blank pages. Let us fill them with the forgotten  things from last year...the words we forgot to say,  the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer...." -Peggy Toney Horton (author of "Somewhere in Heaven my Mother is smiling")

                          "This is the New Year, the New you..." -Pablo

 "The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air....

 It rings to announce endings and beginnings...

 And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

 Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of  night....

 The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year,

 when the days wind down into nothing....

 and get ready to march out again.

 When you hear the bell.....

 you feel a tug at your heart....

 It is your Immortal Inspiration...." 
                -Vera Nazarian (Armenian-Russian Nebula Award Finalist)

 "No brooding over old worries.Let's start a  new series. Think of the new possibilities...." -Shon Mehta

 "As you prepare to usher in the New Year and bid adieu to this one, I suggest live a life that gives your soul bliss...."
                      -Latika Teotia ( author of "Have Wings, will Fly..")

 "The magic of new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all..."
                      -Josiyah Martin (author of "Red")

 "The newness of this DAY is divine..." -Lailah Gifty Akida

 "May you find a new grace to live your dreams in the coming year...." L. Gifty Akida

                       Watch  the New Year unfold.........

Photographs 2018   from Campbell River, B.C.