Would you accept a note from my doctor?  I actually posted this from my hospital bed in Rochester after undergoing robotic surgery on New Year’s Eve.  I was really looking forward to perhaps being home to pursue a shot of the capitol with its windows proclaiming the new year, but that wasn’t in the cards.  Thankfully I have Photoshop so I can at least imagine what it looks like – that, and a maddening array of everyone else’s photos of the event.

I’m back home in the Bizzo now, so hopefully I can make a speedy recovery and lift a camera again soon.  I love sharing photos of Bismarck-Mandan with everyone, and the past several months have not allowed me to do that very much, so I’m hoping that 2014 will provide more opportunity.