Instead of a rant, we’re going to wrap up the year with photos from the year that was.

Here’s a quick look at 2022 from my camera. Just one image from each month. 

Today we travel from January to June. The second half of the year is scheduled for Friday.

Excuse the amateurish composition and focus. There’s a reason I became a writer, not a photographer. 

There is no better place to kick off a New Year than New Orleans. I flew to NoLa with two pals on New Year’s Eve, clutching our tickets to the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl. Yes, Ole Miss lost to Baylor. But even that couldn’t deflate our girls’ getaway.

There was warm weather, jambalaya, red beans and rice and beignets. Oh, and a Saints game. They won, by the way.

Our flight home was cancelled due to snow up north, so we rented a car and turned our adventure into a road trip.

I did Monday morning’s radio show from the back seat!

February arrived and January’s snow was still on the ground. Yes, northerners. This is what passes for a Virginia Beach blizzard.

The mercury hit 80 on March 7th and we had a beach day. I tried to keep my granddaughter out of the chilly ocean, but she’s part dolphin. Icy water does not bother her.

Harbor Park, April 24. It was so hot that Tides’ fans gathered on the concourse to get out of the sun. Hot dogs, cold Coke and baseball. Ahhhh…

Our Mothers Day tradition is to escape the Beach for a weekend and head to a different Virginia location every year. In 2020 we rented an Airbnb in Meadows of Dan. In ‘21 we stayed in a cool old sprawling house in Onancock. And in ‘22 we rented a house on the water in Gloucester. The weather was gloomy and the fish weren’t biting, but we didn’t care. The moms didn’t have to cook or do dishes. Winning!

June brought Kenny Chesney - and us - to the Virginia Beach Amphitheater. My granddaughter knows the words to every Chesney song, so we HAD to take her to her first concert. Nothing better than an outdoor, high energy concert on a balmy summer night in Virginia Beach with a little girl in a pink cowboy hat singing along to her favorite country performer.