After a couple long trips, I'm home again and pounding away on my archive project. The year 2008 was a big year for building up photo inventory. I was unemployed/retired the entire year, the only year between 1971 and 2018 I could say that. It started with January eagling along the Mississippi, a drive to South Carolina and Florida in February, Kansas waterfowl in April, twice to the Simmons Wildlife Safari near Omaha to see the big fat elk, New Mexico in October, northwest Missouri in November AND five separate trips to the Black Hills to fuel my new-found bighorn obsession.

This year, September and October weather has been great until the last few days, then we got hit by freezing fog and a few inches of snow. As I've been going through more than 20 years of images, I found I didn't have one for my Oct. 26 Photo of the Day. I stepped outside today to snap the flocked spruce in my back yard. Rather than show that lame attempt here, I'll just link to it and show a few of the images that I've reprocessed from 2008.

I'm still far from finished with 2008. I figure I'm about one-third done so there may be a few more blog posts before I move on.

Bighorn sheep image just added to December 2008 page.

Bald eagle with fish image just added to January 2008 page.

2008 Photo of the Year from Honeymoon Island, Florida.