(after the fact, I always wish I’d shot more video of moments like these – but in the moment I worried about annoying others sitting nearby, plus I didn’t want to just experience the whole thing through the camera viewfinder. That annoying clicking sound is something internal that my point-n-shoot camera introduces as I try to adjust functions ...doesn’t even make that sound when I’m using it, but somehow it’s there in the video afterwards. :(

mashed potatoes trying to make a break...

Nobody wanted their picture taken, but honestly: there were people here!

Christmas time is here again!

Who cares if the lyrics make no sense? Beatles + Christmas = WIN


if only

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!"

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

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 :)

So behind on posting photos - I will soon - in the meantime, enjoying the season:

"It's such a shame it's only one day every year,
Three hundred and sixty-four days full of doubts and fear
You've been saving your love up,
Let it out,
'Cause Christmas is here."

- XTC, Thanks for Christmas

taking a walk down behind the barn, around the pond:





See that short dark nub towards the left? That's where our mailbox used to live - Last snowfall the snowplows knocked it over pretty hard; this snowfall they killed it. :(

Happy Festivus!

We were lucky to share the day with beloved friends and family in 3 different places...

Sparky was allowed to sleep on the couch only because it was Christmas Eve...

Stevie Wonder - "Someday at Christmas"

bits of my weekend