Reader Favorites 2024

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I thought it would be fun to look back on 2024 and see which posts you liked the most. 2024 has been a year of creativity, connection, and inspiration, and your engagement has truly fueled this journey. From birding, landscapes, night sky, doors, and everything else you’ve been there with support and encouragement every step of the way. It was fun going through the posts re-reading our conversations, and comments on those posts you chose as your favorites . You are what made the year and our community so special!

Let’s jump in.

January-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/01/03/whatever-weds-american-kestrel/

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February-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/02/02/fridays-feathered-friends-hooded-mergansers/

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March-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/03/01/fridays-feathered-friends-western-wood-peewee/

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April-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/04/24/whatever-weds-owls/

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May-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/05/10/fridays-feathered-friends-a-great-day-birding/

This post I shared that I had two great sightings and decent images. The Lark Sparrow got Explored on Flickr which was really exciting.

American Eagle
Lark Sparrow

June- https://circadianreflections.com/2024/06/26/whatever-weds-whirling-butterfly/

Whirling Butterfly blossom

July-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/07/20/something-for-saturday-just-dropping-in/

with a hop…

August-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/08/22/thursday-doors-guest-doors/

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September- https://circadianreflections.com/2024/09/26/thursday-doors-quaker-steak-lube/

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October-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/10/02/whatever-weds-white-peacock-butterfly/

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November- https://circadianreflections.com/2024/11/08/fridays-feathered-friends-birds/

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Image-Semipalmated Plover

December-https://circadianreflections.com/2024/12/12/thursday-doors-christmas-doors/

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I want to thank you all for reading circadianreflections this past year. I love the connections and friendships we’ve made here in our blogging community. I’m looking forward to visiting your blogs, seeing your images, and creativity, and having more good, and interesting conversations in 2025. I wish you all a very Happy, creative, healthy, and prosperous New Year!

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Thursday Doors-Favorites of 2024

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This week we’re sharing our favorite doors from the past year.

I’ll start with Coventry Cross Church.

The Round House from Put-in-Bay, Ohio

From Florida Quaker Steak and Lube has to be here. I loved the door pulls the most.

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Speaking of door pulls I have to include the door my friend in CT sent me from her visit to Gillette Castle with its unique door pull and beautiful door.

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Oh, the beautiful turquoise door/gate must be included in my favorites for the year.

I have more favorites than I thought I did for this year.

The little bird bungalows

Last but not least, my favorite door of all. From our house to yours, I wish you a very Merry Christmas!

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This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2024/12/19/2024-favorite-doors/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊.

Thursday Doors will be back in January 2025, see you then!

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Thursday Doors-Christmas Doors

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This week we’re sharing favorite Christmas Doors. I went up to Carson City to photograph and see the Governor’s Mansion display of lights.

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Here’s a closer look at the doors, well as close as I could get.

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After viewing some of the lights downtown I stopped in Scoup’s a local Ice Cream and Soup cafe for a bowl of soup and saw this door hanging on the wall.

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Next week we’re sharing favorite 2024 doors then we’ll have a break until next year.

This post is part of the Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan Antion. If you’d like to see more Christmas doors from around the world head on over to his blog here-https://nofacilities.com/2024/12/12/osv-gingerbread-doors/

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Something for Sunday- First Snow in the Valley

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I woke up Friday morning pretty early to go birding with a group I’m in. When I opened the garage door to leave I discovered there was snow on the ground and flurries still swirling.

I was heading about an hour northeast from home so, I checked my email to make sure they hadn’t canceled the outing…they hadn’t so off I went.

It wasn’t snowing when I arrived at the meeting spot but, while birding the snow started to fall pretty heavy. It wasn’t in the weather forecast the day before! It was still a good morning of birding. We saw 22 species of birds. One White-crown Sparrow favored us with a nice look perched on snowy grass.

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By the time we left it had quit snowing so my drive home was easy, and while the snow was sticking to the ground where I was birding it hadn’t had home. The upcoming 10 day forecast looks like we’re snow free.

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Friday’s Feathered Friends-Birds!

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It’s been awhile since I shared any birds so I’m going to share several I saw while in Florida this past September. It was a fantastic trip. I saw 21 new to me birds aka “Lifers”. I won’t share all of them in this post. 😊

Black-bellied Plover

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Semipalmated Plover

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A Magnificent Frigatebird. This was the first time I’d ever seen it in the United States. I have seen it in Mexico before.

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And a White Ibis

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Aren’t they great? I’m still excited to have seen them.

How’d you all do with the time change for those of you in states and places that end Daylight Savings Time? How many clocks did you have to reset? We have 8 clocks we needed to change including the thermostat and our cars. I’ve been waking up earlier than normal so back to my natural rhythm at last!

I hope you all have a lovely week-end.

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Whatever Weds. Chipmunk

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The two expression this Chipmunk made while I was taking its photo had me chuckling.

I got it!

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Uh, what nut?!

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