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It’s the time when we look back at the old year and forward to the new year. I hope that 2024 has been good to you and that 2025 will be a very happy and healthy year for you. May your New Year celebrations be fun and full of joy and the start of a year that fulfils your hopes and plans. Happy New Year!
Ann Mackay: Inspired by Nature 
Your photo looks like some sort of icy, frozen but edible Christmas treat: probably peppermint. What a nice thing to contemplate in this still-holidayish season. Here’s to a good new year, filled with treats of every sort: especially in the garden.
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Thanks Linda! I hope that your year is a good one, full of all the best treats for you! (Those flowers have a light but sweet scent, not always noticeable but lovely when you do.)
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Pink and blue to us from you.
Happy impending 2025.
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Thank you Steve – hope that 2025 is a good year for you and yours!
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Happy New Year, Ann! Wishing you a bright, light, cheerful, wonderful 2025 and every success in your future gardening, photography, printmaking, blogging, and any other, endeavours! Now I’ve “returned” to WP I’m sure hoping you’ll continue your fab blog in 2025. And in the absence of any sign to the contrary, I’ll wait with happy anticipation to see what unfolds in this space.. thanks for all the beautiful blog-posts!
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Thank you Liz! Happy new Year to you and Nigel! It’s lovely to see you back with WP and I look forward to your posts and our ‘chats’ through the comments. I hope 2025 will be a happiness-filled, healthy, and prosperous-in-all-your-endeavours year for the two of you. 🙂
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Happy New Year and happy gardening to you Ann x
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Thank you! I hope you have a year filled with happiness! Happy New Year! 🙂
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Is that a marshmallow flower there, Ann? 😉
Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year slightly in advance as I’m always behind with emails.
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Hehe, it looks the right colour for a marshmallow – but it’s a viburnum really. 🙂 Happy new Year to you and yours, Jill! 🤗
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Same to you, happy and bright 2025! 🌸
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Thank you! I hope 2025 is filled with good things for you!
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Best wishes for the last days of the old year and for all of 2025, Ann.
Tanja
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Thank you Tanja! I hope that 2025 will be an excellent and happiness-filled year for you!
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Thank you. That would be very welcome. 🙏
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Happy a little late New Year! Hope you have a great year ahead! Finally got Chrome to let me in to leave a comment. Have been enjoying you blogs even though the comments have been far and few between. This image is totally stunning! Love your frost pixs. Will try to be a better follower this year (on my New Years Resolution list!) Look forward to your future blogs!
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Hi Syd, so good to see you here! 🙂 Happy New Year to you and I look forward to reading your posts through 2025. Hope your year is full of happiness!
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Happy New Year to you too! Going to try to be a better poster this year. There are so many new things on the horizon for Photography and Photoshop – it could get really interesting! Working on keeping up with your wonderful blog too!
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A very belated happy New Year to you, Ann. Here’s to a wonderful 2025 full of love, life, health and happiness. 😊 Oh, and beautiful gardens and photos, of course!
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Thank you Lis! I hope that 2025 is a wonderful year for you, filled with everything that makes your heart happy! 🙂
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