Wow, 5 years.
The highlight of the this year... and of the 5 years I have been on Hive was the opportunity I had to go to HiveFest in person, in Amsterdam, and meet my long time friends! @asgarth, @livinguktaiwan, @delishtreats, @soyrosa
I also made some new friends @zirochka and @yozen and met many others.
Thanks @HiveBuzz for the cute badges for all the HiveFest I have attended.
My post about HiveFest 2022 Amsterdam
My post about my first HiveFest 2020
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Oh wait one more HiveFest badge!
Yes, the winner of Balls of Steel and a group shoot with @Jarvie's phone.
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Travel
Speaking HiveFest in Amsterdam, I was so happy to be able to travel internationally again.
@jarvie and I went to The Netherlands and then Norway. It was amazing.
Amsterdam
I had a wonderful time in Amsterdam. It was full of great art and architecture and cool canals and good food and friends.
- HiveFest 2022 Amsterdam
- Share Our World: First Impressions of Amsterdam
- Art Talk: Van Gogh Museum Highlight Tour
- Restaurant Review: Nomad aan het IJ (10/10)
- Art Talk: Barbara Hepworth at the Rijksmuseum
- Art Talk: Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
- Share Our World: Hortus Botanicus Garden, Amsterdam
- Art Talk: Rembrandt House Museum
- Wednesday Walk: Canals of Amsterdam
- Art Talk: Rijksmuseum and Gothic Architecture
- Art Talk: Gallery of Honor Tour at the Rijksmuseum
- Restaurant Review: Rijks- My First Michelin Star Restaurant (8/10)
- Art Talk: Rembrandt in Amsterdam
- Restaurant Review: 6 restaurants in Amsterdam
- Art Talk: The BEST OF TOUR at the Rijksmuseum
- Share Our World: Rijksmuseum Garden
- Textures in Amsterdam
- Art Talk: Vincent Van Gogh
- Highlights of Amsterdam!
- Art Talk: Rijksmusuem
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Here is a collection I made of 19 authors posts of Amsterdam
DC
DC is one of my favorite cities and I visit every year. This year I went to see the Open House of the Washington DC Temple and I went to Hillwood for the first time and Wow is it amazing!
- The National Mall
- Share Our World: Washington Monument
- Share Our World: The George Washington University
- Art Talk: Stained Glass Windows at the National Cathedral
- Share Our World: Washington National Cathedral
- Wednesday Walk: Bishop's Garden
- Art Talk: Resurrection Chapel the National Cathedral
- Wednesday Walk: National Arboretum azalea collections
- Share Our World: Washington Youth Garden
- George Washington's Mount Vernon
- Share Our World: A gorgeous walk!
- Share Our World: National Arboretum
- Wednesday Walk: Mount Vernon
- Share Our World: Hillwood Estate
- Share Our World: Hillwood Gardens
- Wednesday Walk: Japanese Style Garden at Hillwood
- Share Our World: United States Botanic Garden
- Art Talk: Hirshorn Museum
- Art Talk: Hirshhorn Garden
- Share Our World: DC Temple
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A great collection I made- Places to Visit in and around DC
Lake Powell
We had our family reunion on Lake Powell and it was awesome. I did so much jet skiing!
- Share Our World: Highlights of Lake Powell Vacation
- Share Our World: Upper Antelope Canyon Hike
- Share Our World: Glen Canyon Dam
- Share Our World: Horseshoe Bend Hike
- Share Our World: Wahweap Marina
- Share Our World: Storm on Lake Powell
- Share Our World: First Day's Camp at Lake Powell
- Share Our World: Jet Skiing West Canyon at Sunrise
- Share Our World: Rainbow Bridge Monument and Hike
- Share Our World: Oak Canyon
- Share Our World: Jet Skiing Reflection Canyon
- Share Our World: Jet Skiing Anasazi Canyon
- Share Our World: Hole in the Rock
- Share Our World: Jet Skiing Face Canyon
- Share Our World: Traveling in another storm on Lake Powell
- Share Our World: Sailing back to the marina
Lake Powell and Page, Arizona Collection
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Norway
We spent an incredible week traveling around the country. A dream come true!
- Share Our World: Mount Ulriken with cable car ride
- "Alone In The Wood"
- "It looks like glass!"
- Share our World: Driving from Bergen to Stavanger along the coast
- Share Our World: Sverd i fjell
- Wednesday Walk: Stavanger, Norway
- Share Our World: Pulpit Rock Hike
- Restaurant Review: Motell Restaurant and Kaffe
- Sekse Fruit Farm Airbnb
- Channeling my inner Ansel Adams in Norway
- Wednesday Walk: Voringfossen
- Share Our World: Makka Pakka's Field
- Share Our World: We found fall in Norway
- Share Our World: Hardangervidda or Hardanger Plateau
- Share Our World: Hagafoss, Norway
- Norway's Route 7: Scenic drive from Sekse to Hagafoss
- Share Our World: Foggy Fjord Cruise
- Share Our World: View from Stalheim Hotel
- Share Our World: Our stay at Solneset sheep farm
- Share Our World: Train Ride from Bergen to Oslo
- Share Our World: Airbnb on an island
- Share Our World: High Mass at the 17th Century Oslo Cathedral
- Scooter ride through Oslo
- Wednesday Walk: Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway
- Textures in Norway
- Restaurant Review: Smalhans
- Share Our World: Gol Stave Church
- Share Our World: Highlights of our week in Norway
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I would like to again give a shot out to the great people at @pinmapple for their constant support and the great map!
Oregon
After Christmas we went to the Oregon coast and on the way stopped at the Redwoods.
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Blogging about my travels is one of my favorite things. I really enjoy taking the picture, doing the research about the place, and designing fun posts.
Texas
The first few post from my birthday trip to Waco, Texas just barely makes it into this 5 year review.
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| Art Talk: Armstrong Browning Library and Museum | Share Our World: Tiny House Airbnb in Waco, Texas | Share Our World: Magnolia Tour |
I also put a lot more videos in my posts this year. :)
Art Talk
I started Art Talk posts in September 2018 (Art Talk: Introduction). There are now 142 posts in the Art Talk All Collection.
The Art Talk Community was create three years later in September 2021. It has been great to see others add to it. There are currently 10 active users. It is small and I am ok with that. I blog about art because I find joy in it. I want to have a space for others to post about art too.
Each year I highlight a different area of art. In 2022 I highlighted Artists
- Vasily Kandinsky
- Etel Adnan
- Dale Chihuly
- Heloise Crista
- Yoyoi Kusama
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Barbara Hepworth
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Vincent van Gogh
- Art Talk: Artists Highlighted in 2022
As you can see from the list above, I highlighted Dale Chihuly, one of my favorite artists. In 2022 the Desert Botanical Garden and Taliesin West hosted Chihuly in the Desert. There were amazing glass exhibits throughout the garden and I went 27 times! I took pictures of each piece throughout the six months and in all types of light. It was amazing! I am a self proclaimed Chihuly Groupie and go to exhibits all over the world. This year the exhibit (s) came to me!
Here is a small sample of some of the Chihuly Glass.
One of the nights I went with fellow Hiver, art lover and photographer @laurabellamy. That was great fun.
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I even did a little ICM with the Chihuly pieces
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Wednesday Walks
One of my favorite communities is Wednesday Walk by @tattoodjay. It is so fun to see other parts of the world in a very simple way, like a walk. I also like posting my strolls, hikes and rambles around the world.
I really like making collections (Thank you PeakD for this cool feature).
In January 2022 I made A Collection of my Wednesday Walks.
I will highlight the six most popular Walks in 2022.
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| Wednesday Walk: Mesa Temple Gardens | Wednesday Walk: Bishop's Garden | Share Our World: Magnolia Tour |
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| Wednesday Walk: NYC-Penn Station to South Ferry | Share Our World: Rainbow Bridge Monument and Hike | Wednesday Walk: Central Park |
Restaurant Reviews
I have been blogging about my travels for 5 years now. Just this year I started do restaurant reviews which is fun cause I like to eat out when I travel.
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| Restaurant Review: Nomad aan het IJ (10/10) | Restaurant Review: Rijks- My First Michelin Star Restaurant (8/10) | Restaurant Review: Motell Restaurant and Kaffe | Restaurant Review: Smalhans |
Restaurant Review: Magnolia Table
Garden
Another great community that I post in from time to time is the Hive Garden Community
I find a lot of peace and enjoyment being in my garden, with my hands in the soil, the sun on my back and lost in my own thoughts. Here are three of my garden posts from 2022.
I enjoy plants so much I even started a Plant Profile Series in May 2022. It didn't get very far. I might have been too ambitious to take on another series. Plant Profile: New Series
I did manage to highlight three of my favorite plants
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| Plant Profile: Tulips | Plant Profile: Agave | Plant Profile: Flowering Dogwood Tree |
Collections
As I mentioned earlier @peakd is great and they are always adding to our user experience and one of my favorites is Collections. I made 9 more collections in 2022 for a total of 24.
- Museums Higlighted
- My Black and White Collection
- Lake Powell and Page, Arizona Collection
- Top 3 in the Daily Travel Digest
- Amsterdam
- Places to Visit in and around DC
- Art Talk Posts 2022
- Artists Highlighted
- A Collection of my Wednesday Walks
Stats
Thank you to @hivebuzz for the fun updates, cool graphics and stats.
795 posts! That is awesome.
I hit 1000 followers in June 2022
I posted every day in a month in December 2022
2022 was a year of HiveFest, Travel, Art Talk, Wednesday Walks, Restaurant Reviews, Garden posts, and collections.
I also organized and played Season 4 Photogames and did some Crypto Talk tutorials. I have realized that it takes a lot of effort to consistently make posts that are good quality and comment on a few other posts so I need to focus my efforts this coming year.
Archive of Yearly Posts
4 Year Hive Birthday (2021) Highlights for me this year were travel blogging, Art Talk, Collections, @WednesdayWalk @Photogames Season 3 and a 30 Day Challenge.
3 year anniversary on HIVE (Look at 2020, posted Feb. 20, 2021) I talked about Hikes, Series (Share Our World and Art Talk), Community (Dinner, Packages and HiveFest) and COVID19 (Monthly Updates)
My 2019 Steem Journey. Since the end of the year and my Hive birthday are so close to each other this was my look at 2019 and what I learned.
My Year Journey on Steem (A look at 2018, posted Feb. 10. 2019)
I talked about playing #photogames and #Steemmonsters (which is now #Splinterlands) making the #Arttalk and #Sharemyworld series.
Introducing myself (My first post, Feb. 10, 2018) I introduced myself with travel, plants, garden and art. Those are still major themes in my posts.