![sunny Mt. Scott Park on New Years Day](https://hollyhein.com/wp-content/uploads/Mt-Scott-New-Year-300x168.jpg)
Mt. Scott Park, cold and sunny on New Years Day 2015
![sun through fir trees at Mt. Scott Park, with green lawn](https://hollyhein.com/wp-content/uploads/newyear2016-169x300.jpg)
Mt. Scott Park, cold and sunny on New Years Day 2016
I cooked up black-eyed peas and the limp but tasty chard from the garden. At first the black-eyed peas smelled like dirt and not in a good way…but liberal bacon and onion redeemed them.