The last day of the year,

Last sunset,

Last hours…

In anticipation of a new day,

A new year,

A fresh beginning,

I sincerely wish you a New Year full of happiness and prosperity, dear friends.

It has been a tough year here, the situation still ongoing, unfortunately. I hope it ends very soon.

I would like to thank all my genuine friends for their support and understanding. I’m grateful for that.

And, a message to hopeless sinners, who have hurt all mankind just to save their own beliefs.. STOP IT !!!

Try to make some sense of your existence.

If you can’t add any good to this planet, just keep it as is. It’s already a wonderful place!!!

The last 365 of 2023 to complete another 365 year for me.

I would have liked the L to have been a different colour but it wasn't to be.

Now onwards to the next.

[Grateful] I bid farewell to 2023 by thanking my dear family, friends, fans and collectors for your never-ending love and support. Thank you for appreciating my creatures and giving many of them a home. Much thanks for sharing your beautiful photos, for your likes, shares and your appreciated comments. 💞 ~May 2024 bring love, health, peace, happiness and prosperity. Wishing all your dreams will come true~ ✨🍀💞

Photo: my version of a 'real/came to life' @charlescreaturecabinet [SO blossom faerie, 4cm micro bjd]

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45407 hauling 3 carriages, and with 44871 at the rear, scurries through Hellifield on the down line, during another spell of heavy and persistent showery rain on their way home to Bury on 31 December 2023.

©copyright 2024-Peter Ainsworth

View of Jupiter's moon Io from the Juno spacecraft, imaged on 30 December 2023. Color/processing variant.

View of Jupiter's moon Io from the Juno spacecraft, imaged on 30 December 2023. Color/processing variant.

View of Jupiter's moon Io from the Juno spacecraft, imaged on 30 December 2023.

New Year's Eve fireworks at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia

Demolition of the old west and north stands during the massive renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on the campus of The University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas

Sunday afternoon 31 December 2023

Proof Naomi was happy she didn't have to shovel the snow in the parking lot...

31 December 2023, Canberra, Australia..New Year's Eve fireworks at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia

Demolition of the old west and north stands during the massive renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on the campus of The University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas

Sunday afternoon 31 December 2023

To say it was a brief joy to see the sun this morning is an understatement. We've had endless weeks of rain and wind and the landscape is saturated. Anyhow, on the last day of the year as the sun rose low over the Chevin and the valley mists and clouds chased away.

Demolition of the old west and north stands during the massive renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on the campus of The University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas

Sunday afternoon 31 December 2023

Naomi about 20 minutes ago in Sapporo, looking at the snow in the parking lot and happy she doesn't have to shovel any.

Demolition of the old west and north stands during the massive renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on the campus of The University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas

Sunday afternoon 31 December 2023

The snow in the parking lot that Naomi saw in the morning. According to Naomi, it is supposed to snow all day.

New Year's Eve fireworks at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia

New Year's Eve fireworks at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia

Demolition of the old west and north stands during the massive renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on the campus of The University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas

Sunday afternoon 31 December 2023

View of moon in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md

New Year's Eve fireworks at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia

View of Jupiter's moon Io from the Juno spacecraft, imaged on 30 December 2023. Color/processing variant.

View of Jupiter's moon Io from the Juno spacecraft, imaged on 30 December 2023.

In Savannah, Georgia, on December 31st, 2023, was 608-612 E Park Lane (built as a duplex circa 1910-1915, according to its record in the GNAHRGIS database) on the north side of East Park Lane, east of East Broad Street, a "contributing property" in the Eastside Historic District, 02001292 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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View of Jupiter's moon Io from the Juno spacecraft, imaged on 30 December 2023. Color/processing variant.

View of Jupiter's moon Io from the Juno spacecraft, imaged on 30 December 2023. Color/processing variant.

According to the Chatham County Board of Assessors record for the building, it was built circa 1940. It looks to me like the façade is from circa the 1980s.

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In Savannah, Georgia, on December 31st, 2023, was a commercial building at the northeast corner of Abercorn Street and East Duffy Lane.

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View of moon in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md

View of moon in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md

View of moon in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md

View of Sunrise from my apartment window in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md

Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve - the gathering of the ferries.

I like the smiling graffiti but the fish meal looks smelly and gross and sticky-wet.

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In Savannah, Georgia, on December 31st, 2023, was a billboard advertising the restaurant "Local 11ten Food | Wine" at the southeast corner of Drayton Street and East Duffy Street.

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Flatland video of the big M7.5 earthquake that struck Japan on New Year's Day (JST). Video made on 31 December 2023 PST.

This was in one of Savannah's substation-and-headstones districts. Do you like black-on-pink as a color scheme for signs.

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In Savannah, Georgia, on December 31st, 2023, was a bus stop at the northeast corner of East Broad Street and East Waldburg Street, outside the Oglethorpe Marble & Granite Co. There's a Georgia Power substation.

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Planet Earth ought to stop spinning and revolving!, so as to preserve the delightful sun angle at this site.

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In Savannah, Georgia, on December 31st, 2023, was a wall at the southwest corner of East Broad Street and East Henry Lane.

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Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve - the gathering of the ferries.

Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve - the gathering of the ferries.

Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve - the gathering of the ferries.

In Savannah, Georgia, on December 31st, 2023, was a house at the northwest corner of East Park Avenue and Habersham Street, built circa 1899 according to its record in the GNAHRGIS database, a "contributing property" in the Savannah Victorian Historic District, 74000665 and 82002392 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve - the gathering of the ferries.

Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve - the gathering of the ferries.

View of Sunrise from my apartment window in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md

View of moon in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md

View of Sunrise from my apartment window in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday morning, 31 December 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography

New Year Eve Sunrise Project

Elvert Barnes DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING MD 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/silver-spring-md