Tell you what: how about two calendars for the price of one? Especially since there is no price at all, except your attention which might be the most priced possession you could give me, and I thank you for it.
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While real photographers are selling their 2020 calendars and normal bloggers are sharing their favourite 2019 photos, here are my 12+12 photos from 2018.
Why? No, I don’t see it as living in the past but rather as making space for the future.
Since every month I have a look back at the same month the year before, it’s bound to happen that at the end of the year I make a selection of one photo from each month and make my calendar for the previous year.
Except that I couldn’t choose only one photo and leave all the others behind crying. That’s why I give you first the primary calendar with the first picks, and then the secondary with those photos that cried the loudest. Take it away, 2018.
(ADD-IT: In the meantime I’ve realised that for the last Lens-Artists challenge for 2019 Patti was asking for our favourite photos of last year. I will link this post to her with a delay of one year. I hope this is okay.)
January – Enchanted princesses of the apocalypse. 
February – In Rome it’s time to bloom. 
March – Jabba the Pretty Eyes. 
April – My Dog Sighs left his eyes in Trastevere. 
May – Massa Marittima, the winner of the year. 
June – Alien droppings in Maremma. 
July – Margarita sunset on the Slovenian coast. 
August – Between Slovenia and Italy. 
September – Pitigliano wow factor. 
October – Slovenian autumn. Tivoli park, Ljubljana. 
November – One has turned its back on social media. 
December – Strudel for the birthday and holidays.
May was the hardest, my apology to the goats. And to the parrots and all the cats that only appear now, in the second calendar.
No matter how it’s more and more about living in the moment and celebrating each one as if a new year is starting because it is, my best wishes to all of you for the roaring twenties that start at midnight tomorrow. Roar away.
January – The grass was crying, look. 
February – JC swears he was crying. 
March – The sky was about to cry. And the lines are crying for each time somebody edits them out. 
April – Bestia was not crying so much because he was included in the December photo already. 
May – Goats were plotting revenge. 
June – She was about to strike. 
July – In Piran somebody forgot something. 
August – Thuram was a bit sad and tired. 
September – The new generations play together despite their colours. In Massa Marittima. 
October – On the verge of tears. 
November – This one is beyond tears. Action time. 
December – Parrots roaming in Rome freely. What they seem to say: If you don’t include us, your loss. (If you click, you’ll see the photos in a colourful setting.)
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My Calendar 2018 posts:
My previous Calendars:
For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Patti at P. A. Moed: Favourite photos of 2019
Manja Mexi Mexcessive (closed) 
I love this calendar.
Massa Marittima, wow! And those geese and goats and priceless. And the rest, inc.Bestia, of course.
Tivoli park, a gem!
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Thank you, Bojana. Creatures’ comfort!
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A wonderful gallery of looking back Manja. Happy New Year
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Thank you so much, Bushboy. One to you as well!
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I love the goats plotting revenge and the Tivoli park.
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Thank you, Amanda. I wish you a most excellent year ahead in as many regards as we can make it so.
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Likewise Manja. Happy 2020 to you!
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A lovely collection – definitely worth revisiting.
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Thank you so much, Judith. You spurred me on a few years ago with your post, remember? 🙂 Keep doing it ever since. All well to you in 20/20!
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Nice shots. Especially the strudel and the cats–but then I’m unapologetically biased.
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Thanks, Ellen. Eccolo, the first comment I write this year. Just continue to be unapologetically biased towards good and sane. We need more of this.
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That strudel sure looks good 🙂 Happy New Year!
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Thank you, Sandy. 🙂 Many good things to you too this year.
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What a wonderful collection, Manja! I love what you say “making space for the future”! All the photos that this calendar has are so lovely and the captions couldn’t be more perfect…that margarita sunset, the birds on the wire and the new generation together despite their colors and the sailboat with that gorgeous sky are my absolute favorite. I would love to have such a beautiful and ‘filled with real moments’ calendar in my house! Happy New Year, Manja! May this year bring you more of everything that your heart desires:)
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Oh, this all sounds so nice, Moon, thank you for all your kind words. 🙂 I’ll start the new calendar soon with the January 2019 post. Real moments beat real time! 😉
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Let this turn of the year be one of confession and repentance for all the lost souls that edit out those poor power lines. They have feelings too, I get it now, will do my best 🙂
Although I’m probably not up to a great start… looking at your superb November picture (on the first calendar, the one where nobody cried), I feel an urge to remove that pesky little critter from the top left corner… 🙂
– Verne
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Hihihhi, Verne, thanks for the chuckle. I swear that I have never noticed that poor half there fellow in the top left corner in need of removal. Not that I’d remove it if I have. Hm… Maybe I’d need to do a composite… 😀 😉 As for the lines, yes yes, you are a devil.
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A loveable gallery,Manja! Favorites? All your animals and – April! Wishing you a year full of love and joy!
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Thank you, Leya. Working on it… But it’s hard.
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