More or Less Active In 2022

[yourlibrarian]

I thought I'd start out with my most striking image. Although I have spotted a bunch of wonderful nature moments, usually from our balcony, some of the most remarkable ones last year were due to a grey heron which decided to visit our lake regularly. It turned out to be quite the successful fish catcher.

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2022

[weofodthignen]

Dusk on the edge of downtown Sunnyvale, November 12: Crows wheeling and starting to roost on now empty office buildings that were built on spec and until the pandemic, were leased by Nokia (left) and Apple (right). In the background, cranes on what was Macy's and its parking lot. (The towers of the cranes were later lighted in purple for the holidays.)

I didn't take many pictures in 2022. Apart from my tribe of feral cats, I took a number documenting the replacement buildings going up where rental housing, the local 24-hours restaurant, and the offices of our small Silicon Valley city had been. And some showing downtown coming back, with the first unmasked people, the new outdoor cafe seating ... and empty storefronts where there had been cafes and a hair salon before that had hung on for a year but not made it through. ( But it was also the year we ventured on a couple of tiny road trips. )

ship's 2022

[shipperslist]

2022 was a Long year for many reasons.



2022 was the first year I participated a strike and marched on the streets for my union. Hashtag #nursetoo trended because after two covid years, the employer side didn't want to raise our wages and were actually more intent on pushing forward martial law that would strip health care workers from our basic rights. Cool times! We were without the collective labor agreement for most of the year and the smearing campaign that went on in the media (targeting especially our union head) was interesting to say the least. You'd think that after everything that's happened, lying at nurses' faces and trying to pull the rug under our feet would be the last thing in TPTB's minds but... yeah. We're experiencing a global nurse shortage and the hospital districts and municipalities still seem to think they can do whatever because there's a long line of new nurses queueing behind their door (spoiler alert: there isn't).

( a pride flag and a skull (art) )