Key to the images ("I" is Eva, who wrote this in consultation with Herman.):

To the tune of 12 days of Christmas: 3 Go Windows, 9 turkeys at the de Cordova, 34 years on the BBC board, and no Ptarmigan on the taiga...

New Year’s Day Herman started his 2001 list on Nantucket and I walked the beaches with Mirka and Janusz. Bill Holden, formerly of Somerville, presently of Houston, visited for a week in May to bird with Herman and see old Go friends. At Mt. Auburn Irving Romano, 85, recent widower of a birder, asked Herman if he could walk with him. Sure. During the birdwalk Herman mentioned he’d given up highway driving. Irving said "I can drive!" So they were a duo for quite a few outings, to Plum Island and so forth. The Scarlet Tanager photographed at Mt. A. stands for all these memories.

The day we saw the Gray Jay in Montezuma, Colorado, Montrose street had a Gray Day: Our wonderful neighbor Ann Smyth died.

Phil Tracy visited us from Liverpool NY the weekend of the July Go Tournament. He got me, and eventually others via me, interested in some math problems. One was about proving that no matter how you color the plane with 3 colors there are always two points d apart the same color. (Where d is any distance—Herman thought I made a typo.) Ezra’s proof involved a yellow-green trefoil.

Thanks to Ron Egan (St. Brides ‘60), I got hooked for awhile on a Yahoo bulletin board of folks who grew up in my Chicago neighborhood in my era. By that route and others I connected with some Auld Acquaintances. Everybody loved the the beach.

Dennis Anderson, Old Appliconian who’s moved back to New England not only has a recumbent, he has a guest recumbent! I had always wanted to ride a recumbent, and now I’ve done a couple of hundred miles on the oddity (I mean that in a nice way).

I went through my diary toting up all instances of my walking more than a mile: Almost all were with Herman to or from movies or birding. We did Glenn’s Plymouth Beach trip, walking 6 miles and getting all 4 target terns. I figure I walked 100 miles and Herman paced several times that in 2001. In Rochester Thanksgiving weekend Herman set off after breakfast for his annual walk along the Erie Canal. Later MaryDan and I attended her Yoga Class, and Bob went for a 40 mile spin with his cycling club. MaryDan had assumed Herman was taking a nap in the guest room--the door was closed. Was she surprised when he came in from his walk just in time for lunch.

During the month of December there was an Exhibition of my Christmas Cards Past at Genessee Community College where Bob Cooper is on the gallery committee this year.

Herman got a life MA mammal, a moose, on a birding foray with Bob Stymeist near the Vermont state line. MaryDan picked up a Moose Massager (Wheeled folk art) at a yard sale.

I’m writing this Dec. 26, putting me in mind of my colleague Don Ross’s screen saver: Dancing around the screen is "We never slip." For variation he’s used "We never ship."

Looking at the symmetry of 2002, I wish for balance in the coming year, in world affairs and in our personal lives.

Happy New Year,

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