Each December I post my favorite photos of the year. Some I love for their artistic quality and others I love for the sheer memory of the moment.  Above is taken just outside of Evergreen, Colorado.

With my parents in Colorado for my Dad’s 85th birthday celebration.

With dear friends in Mexico City, Mexico

Bison in Yellowstone National Park

Black bear in Waterton National Park.

Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada

Photograph off the side of the road in Glacier National Park.

Wayne preaching in Zimbabwe.

Below: a handsome man from the Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe

Praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.  Notice the cracks are crammed with prayers sent from all over the world.

Fireworks over Silwan, an Arab village, in East Jerusalem.

A ripened wheat field in the Valley of Elah where David killed the giant, Goliath in Israel.

I call this Enchanted Forest. Sandpoint, Alberta, Canada.

San Juan Island with some of my favorite people in all the world.

Light house on San Juan Island

 

On the ferry-boat on the way to San Juan Island off the coast of Washington.

San Juan Island, just off the coast of Washington

Oak tree in winter, at the Shady Grove Church prayer center, taken with my iPhone

Guadalupe River in Texas

Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada

This is undoubtedly my favorite of 2012, taken  on the Canadian side of Glacier National Park and is breathtakingly beautiful. The lake was still, and the reflection is as gorgeous as the mountains.