To celebrate the start of the new year (hopefully, very different from the one just passed), I have posted some pictures that I hope you will enjoy. Just as I hope you will enjoy the brief "background stories" I have written to accompany each of them. In the last few months I have been very busy and for this reason I have not been able to update my account. I would like to thank all those who have written to me or who have indicated a "favourite" for the pictures or stories. I appreciate it very much. For my part, I've been trying to get on with my stories, especially that of the charming Maya Trimmer from "The Lawyer Saga". Lately I've been writing several chapters in one go: they're practically ready, but I can't publish them, because there are some "linking" chapters missing between the last one I published and the ones I've just finished. Unfortunately, time is an incredibly scarce resource, but I am afraid that this is not a problem only for me. I have plenty of ideas, it's just