This is it. Our last post of 2022.

As promised, here are more amateurish photos from my iPhone. Geez,I really DON’T have a good eye, do I? I’ll do better next year!

On the last Wednesday in July I managed to check an item off my bucket list: A trip to Chincoteague for the annual Pony Penning, made famous by Marguerite Henry’s beloved book “Misty of Chincoteague.”

It was fun and best of all, affordable. I highly recommend making the pilgrimage next summer if you’ve never watched the ponies swim from Assateague Island to the mainland. Bring your bug spray!

On a hot August day I was walking along the Elizabeth River Trail in Norfolk when this train - loaded with Tesla fuel - passed by. Anyone else amused by the moral superiority of those driving coal-powered cars?

On a sunny September afternoon I did a totally touristy thing and went with friends on the Rudee Rocket, a 70-foot long, 18-foot-wide Ocean Rocket. We kicked up an impressive wake and got soaked with refreshing salt water as we sped up the coast from Rudee Inlet to Cape Henry to hang out with a pod of dolphins. Doesn’t matter how many of these mammals you’ve watched from the shoreline, seeing them so close takes your breath away.

In late October I found myself in beautiful Bath County. Peak autumn colors had faded, but this sweet scene stopped me.

November found me back in my happy place: Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on the campus of Ole Miss. The Rebels lost to Alabama that night, but as they say in Oxford: We may lose the game, but we’ve never lost a party!

For the third consecutive year, Sawyer Grace joined Mike and me on the radio for our Christmas broadcast. She’s something of a broadcasting pro by now and knows that you can’t nod or shake your head when you’re on the air. She is a bit of a microphone hog, however.