(1982 UK Top 10 hit for U2, from their third album War)

Bono, the Edge, Adam and Larry get to impress us again with a right rocker of a snowy number...I apologise but the tune and the photo do not in any way match! Call it Challenge Fatigue, winter blues, Christmas ennui...I just ran out of juice at the last moment! But the song is seasonally relevant, and the pic is...well, inspired by the corking shots Phillip Normanton has been wowing us with this month! How fitting it is therefore that I should both start and end this month's Challenge with a tribute to Sir Phil's mastery of light, colour and shape!

Circles, triangles and rectangles - the flavoursome remnants of the December Challenge crumble like so much dust (or a stock cube in my case...) as we bravely look forward to concocting new and toothsome photos in the new year ahead! It's been a brilliantly festive and geometrical month, I've enjoyed seeing all your wonderful shapes, colours and compositions, and I thank you all for visiting and commenting on my own humble offerings

I wish you all a very happy, healthy, peaceful and prosperous New Year - all the best for 2010 wherever you are; may your shutter finger prosper and your eye discern the light in new and inventive ways! :o)

Hogmanay's last-upload-of-the-year-better-make-it-a-good-one-Doug-you-want-to-end-on-a-bang entry to the Challenge; click here for other geometrically-challenged Pbasers this month