In the midst of this sea and on the edge of this desert.

Random meme googling led me to this very strange way to review the year:

Take the first sentence you posted from every month and add the first photo you posted that same month...

(Taken from http://clasticdetritus.com which happily is a "blog about sedimentary geology".)

Don't think it quite works for blogs that are as frivalous as this one, but hey, let's review the shallow. :D

( Still here.  )