Happy New Year to all my friends and Readers. 2021 hangs as a big question mark still and the New Year an even bigger one. It struck me that A E Housman perhaps said it best in the Shropshire Lad (1896).

“Therefore, since the world has still

Much good, but much less good than ill,

And while the sun and moon endure

Luck’s a chance, but troubles sure,“

So, my friends, I’m going to recommend focusing on the positive for the coming year. Focus and remember that change, real change, is within our power.

I have, of course, been scanning my photographs for something appropriate and I want to share the image of Figure 1, which quite symbolic of the year’s last day, shows the cormorant beginning their migration in mid-October over Cape Ann.