Forget the elections. I’ve been stressing about the calendars!

I’ve been bogged down for much of the past week or two in the process of combing through over 28,000 photographs I’ve taken this year to select the few dozen that will appear in my annual calendars.

The problem is that I procrastinated and should have gotten them done a month ago. Instead, they’ll returnd from the printer just in time for me to distribute during the holidays.

I’ve been making annual calendars for nearly 20 years. I’m not exactly sure when I started, but I found a mention of my cat calendars in 2008, and it didn’t sound like it was the first year.

Initially, as I recall, it was a way to feature what I thought were my best photos of the year. But before long, it was a fun holiday gift for our small circle of friends.

It started with the cats, but soon expanded to also feature the dogs that we met on our early morning walks, and gave copies to their people as holiday gifts. And, finally, I added a version featuring sunrise photos, first in Kaaawa and now in Kahala.

This year, I had to create two versions of the Kahala Morning Dogs calendar, because my list of favorite canine friends keeps growing, even though a few regulars moved away this year.

Here are summaries of the 2025 calendars, which were just finished and sent off for printing this morning.

Whew. Relief!

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Kahala Morning Dogs 2025

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MORE Kahala Morning Dogs 2025

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Our Kahala Cats 2025

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Kahala at Dawn 2025

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There is time pressure involved because, in just a couple of days, I’m accompanying Meda to the annual conference of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco. She is a former president of ASC, but this will be the first time she’s attended since Covid prompted her to retire.