Year in Review, 2015 Sight of the Year: Imagine Peace

Always a tough category, this year, I loved seeing:

•  rainbow carrots purple, white, yellow, orange and now often available at the local grocery and co-op;
•  the Black Tulip Magnolia which my father bought for me and which we named Uhura, since he was a Star Trek fan, and planted so that it can block the view of my neighbor's house from the window in my writing room; 
•  The Impressionists exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum, which my husband surprised me by saying he particularly wanted to see. I especially remember: Auguste Renoir's "Woman With A Cat" (which inspired me to adopt a cat from our local shelter shortly thereafter - we'd been three months without our sweet Sophie, whose paws have been prominent on the Sensorium); Edouard Manet's"A King Charles Spaniel" (we are not quite ready for another dog - Storm's sister is happy as an only + cat) and Henri Fantin-LaTour, "Still Life With Grapes and a Carnation" and "Three Peaches on a Plate" — in another life I would love to be a still life painter and paint lots of apples and peonies as memento mori and I am sure we will be eating lots of peaches this summer — look for them in the summer Sensorium;
• the cat's orange upturned chin — more Mary Shelley so late in the year, but so prominent;
• I love NASA's astronomy picture of the day and the Witch Head Nebula - a cosmic crone — stands out.

Dance performance of the year goes to Shaping Sound  — although SYTYCD comes to Seattle on Dec. 26 tonight!— but I cannot imagine the show could surpass the innovation, energy and dynamic performance of the Shaping Sound company — Hurrah! Hurrah! (*but please try :-)*

However, sight of the year goes to the IMAGINE PEACE pillar of light on Viðey island off the coast by Reykjavik and the aurora borealis.

What is this? My Year in Review.