It's New Year's Eve!

It's New Year's Eve! Time to party, although to be honest, these days, I much prefer to stay home, avoid the crowds, and keep warm. I used to go down to Denver's 16th Street Mall each year and watch the fireworks, but it never seemed to be all that fun. They have 2 shows - one at 9:00 and one at midnight - and around 100,000 people usually attend. I would take the light rail downtown, but it stopped at the convention center, several blocks from 16th Street. And the mall was so crowded, when the fireworks did begin, I often could not see them. After all that, once the fireworks were over, everyone moved as a group back to the light rail stop, and it took forever to finally get a train and go home. And did I mention that the temperature was usually in the teens the entire time? Far better to hang out and celebrate at home, such as in the photograph above that I took years ago of my mother Mary, sister Susan, and brother-in-law George celebrating a holiday at Susan and George's townhouse up in Fort Collins. And in addition to spending time with family, a celebration at home is much sweeter if you are not the one doing the cooking, not to mention the dishes. Ah, to be able to go back to those days.