Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Tues. Jan 10, 2012

A beautiful full moon morning! Pictures taken on the way to work.

Took this one with the flash on.

Same shot, without the flash.

See the moon "sitting" on the fence post?

Monday, January 9. 2012

As a Steelers fan in an office full of Ravens fans....life isn't always easy. 
Meet Ruth and her dog Pickles. Ruth is a die hard Ravens fan, and we often banter about football. 
She was kind enough to bring me a Black Ribbon of Mourning the day after the Steelers blew the chance to move on this season. 
Being the good sport that I am, I wore it proudly all day!


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Christmas 2011 with the folks in Terra Alta!




Christmas Eve
Me and my faithful (COUGH COUGH) hound dog, Daisy, warming by the fire.
Maw in the kitchen!

Maw and Norm

Lynne, Steve, Maw, Norm...and DAISY.

You'll shoot  your eye out!


Christmas Day
Steve helping Daisy and Puddles open their presents!

Dinner and Movie gift cards for Maw and Norm!
Maw in her Christmas morning attire!
Daisy supervising Steve as he tears bread for stuffing.

MY bread was neatly cut, Steve's was just torn. MINE is better. LOL!

The Great Stuffing Preparation Discussion.
Maw working on the stuffing. See that dog?

And now BOTH dogs are being pains.
Maw's new carving set!

Norm starting to , uh, carve?

Steve takes over.

And oh gee, there is Puddles waiting....
That darn radio station kept fading when I moved....

...so I did what I had to do in order to keep the music playing!
WAIT NORM!!!!!!

DINNER! (oh, and guess who sneaking up to the table?)

Beautiful Christmas night sunset with Venus (I think) and the baby moon....the moon didn't show on the picture.
and a Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Trying to get a Family Christmas Picture! Dec. 25, 2011

So, how many pictures do you have to take to get just ONE good one?

Daisy is not being very good.

Steve is not happy because Daisy is STILL not being good.

OK, if she would just LOOK AT THE CAMERA!

ROTTEN DOG!

I think the look on my face clearly says it all....

OK, not great, but getting better. Note how Puddles is gazing adoringly at her daddy!

Now this is just getting ridiculous!

Really not my best look. But at least the other 3 are cute!

Thank you for the kiss Daisy!


Well, this is as good as it gets, although Puddles is over this experience!
 Well, some day we'll actually GET a good one, and then the question will be answered!

Monday, December 12, 2011

just lookin' around

Nov. 4, 2011
Sometimes, you just have to stop the car on your way to work, and capture the sunrise sky that precedes a rainy day....






...and then stop what you are doing at work to capture the sunset you see outside of the window, after the rain has passed.




 Nov. 12, 2011
Occasionally,  you have to interrupt your dinner to get a capture of the full moon through the trees seen through the kitchen window.




Nov. 23, 2011
Every now and then, it's necessary to pull off to the side of the road to capture a beautiful sunset on your way home from work.







 

Dec. 2, 2011
And every now and then, an overnight frost meets an early morning kiss of warmer air, and the result just begs for attention.




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All you need to do is SEE!