It's that time!

Last project of 2014
(Maple + Mahogany)

boys & dogs

G & Q loved Aunt Laurie's beautiful, gentle St. Bernards

"Take my picture! Take my picture!"

"Let me take a picture! Let me!"

Buds

Sparky & Joe's dog Betsy, during an afternoon walk around the pond

view of Canandaigua Lake from Rt. 12 during drive up to Canandaigua:

An old high school friend's father passed away recently, and on this Christmas Day a very nice article about him appeared in the Daily Messenger. At the end they included a quote from him that really struck me:

"Life is a gift ... The way you live your life is a gift to those who come after you. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or you can use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, it will be gone forever. Let your hopes and your dreams guide you ... The world needs to understand everyone’s hopes and dreams."

Click here to read the full article.

visiting "Light Up Naples" with my family

Hope my family won't hate me for posting this... I tortured them all with Christmas crackers that included whistles so that we could all create music together (sort of like a bell choir except with whistles) ... this is how we ended up:



The immediate response to my question at the end cracks me up :)

Christmas cactus

snow days

Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies.

Word of the day:

self-aggrandizement