'Tis the season for broken promises and lists. I've managed to keep almost all the promises I've made to myself in the past 72 hours except the one about posting more here because editing down one year's worth of photos is similar to the excruciating pain of plucking every single hair out of one's body one by one. This isn't a "best of" group but it's my year in photos including most cities I visited and my usual disjointed mix of raw and sentimental (Must. Stop. Being so sentimental.) images. Some are new to this site and some you've seen before but I like the idea of doing this every year and then looking back one day and thinking how much I never appreciated what I had when I'm still (15 years from now) bitching about how bad 2009 was.