Romeo admires Senna's new knitted sweater

(From a safe distance). Notice his new flattened fed-ex box halfway down the hall. He has been moving it around looking for the perfect place for it. It started in the living room

Merry Christmas to all

and to all a good chewey.

I'll be back.

No pics

just a quick note. Gill and Mark are here and she is doing a fantastic job of looking at the city with new eyes. However, I HAVE designated December 1st as "get a grip" day and will be returning then or the next day, once I have collapsed in a heap for a little while. These two could walk your feet off!!!

seen at the dog park

I couldn't resist.. don't they look like they belong together?

Some of us got a present...

This box arrived the other day, it didn't get here looking like this, it looked like a perfectly good box with nice neat sides and corners.

The Princess Clementine loved the new shape, it was a comfy seat. However she found it already shaped to fit someone else when she sat down on it.

Are you accusing ME????????

Can I help it if my butt just happens to fit perfectly in the small indentation I have "discovered" in this lovely box?

Pears and my kitchen window

I have a continuing fascination with pears. I want to draw them, I make prints of them, I shoot photos of them whenever I find them. I do not, however, like eating them very much. Maybe I am just buying the wrong kinds or buying them for the wrong reason. I think I am buying them for their looks.

There is probably a message for living there somewhere.

letters and pictures

I found my father's letters from his sisters and brother and nephew in Germany. All are in German, and most are in a spidery old style handwriting that is unreadable by us moderns. I have no German, so the chance that I can decipher anything at all is too slim to mention.

I did have a friend who speaks German well look at some of them, and he struggled but got little out of them. I have resorted to creating a catalog and sorting by year and combining with pictures from the same year, but I guess that the content may well remain a mystery. It is sad in a way, especially since they were written to the US from Germany in the late 20's through the 60's and might have some interesting stories to tell.

That said, they may also be dull as dishwater, but they make for interesting photos..