2025 Year in Review

What a ride 2025 has been, eh? 

Looking at this past year's photos, a person might think I was into politics.
In fact, I'd prefer not to think about politics.

But this year didn't allow me that, so I'll start with . . . 
my favorite image [not mine] of 2025:
Strategic Silliness
The inflatable frog faces federal ICE agents in Portland, Oregon.

Above: Photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle, via axios.com/local/portland/2025/10/14/portland-ice-protest-inflatable-costumes
_______________

January
They pulled their knee ligaments. Just like me! 
We hobbled around for MONTHS...

MARCH: bink; me & Em hanging my "You Are Made of Stars" prints on the fence by the thrift store

BELOW: Target's mascot stuffed bull terriers protesting Target for caving to Trump, outside corporate headquarters

 
April: "No Kings" rally at the State Capitol. 
(The cat on my sign was inspired by having read Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, with its black demon cat.)

June 14: Another Pro-Democracy rally. 
Hours earlier, an assassin had murdered MN State Rep. Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark, and their dog, Gilbert.

_________________

Summer Doll Camp involved stick-raft and God's Eye making

 

 
AUGUST
Below: Making God's eyes in the Mississippi town of Winona (w/ bink)

 
BELOW: Some of my best work at the thrift store

 

SEPTEMBER

At the Source of the Mississippi, Itasca, MN, with bink

On the day of the nearby Annunciation School shooting, a young man hands me carnations as I sit making God's eyes in the backyard, inspiring me to invite people to a bonfire... 

And 125 God's eyes got hung on the fence, with a little help from my friends

 October
My sign for the third NO KINGS rally: a mash-up of Kermit the Frog (for the Portland frogs) and Hamilton 

NOVEMBER

Marz on break from UM-Duluth came down for Thanksgiving

DECEMBER

Girlettes & Hanukkah menorah in the work parking lot

 ABOVE: The sideways yellow heart (on the board to the left) was the O in 'HOPE' 

in the 'Faith Hope Love' that I'd painted on the plywood over on the broken windows during the George Floyd uprisings, 2020. 
Now it covers a hole in the chain-link fence.

Mending…