Introducing Annabelle

It's been a busy and holidayish weekend. 

BUTLER: "'Holidayish' is not a word."

BAGMAN: "Here we go again with the anal retentive stuff..."

Anyway, Karen and I were invited to Brian and Melody's house for dinner.  Later, we all thought about it and it was the first time they had hosted...

BUTLER: "And hostessed..."

BAGMAN: "Aha!  Hostessed is not a word either...I think."

...dinner for us.  So it was special.  And wonderful.  And we also got a chance to meet their newest family member.  Annabelle.

And Conner posed for what could have been made into a nice Christmas card...

He even put down his pacifier for the occassion.

...which Annabelle promptly tried on for size...

On Sunday they all came over to visit our house where Daisy got to meet Annabelle and discover that, yes, there are dogs actually smaller than herself. 

Ignore the tongue.  Ignore the tongue.

Pretend this is just a bad dream.

Friday Hometown Shootout - Weather

"Well, the weather outside is frightful,

inside it's just delightful,

the rest of the words I don't know

so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow."

Oddly enough, in half a century of shooting pictures,

this is the only one I ever took of snow.

I did take one of ice once

I think I slipped and with my chin on the ground, noticed this.

When i lived in Massachusetts, I liked to take ice pictures

from inside, where it was warm.

I preferred sunny fall days back then.

with low slanting light.  (1978)

Here in Charleston, however,

it's almost always beach weather

But we do have lots of fog

From early morning before Bagman goes racing...

...until night when Butler looks out the window

 before going home from work.

Sometimes I photoshop it to death.

Bagman loves clouds because he sees himself in them...

...sometimes too much of himself.

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This one, however, seems to capture the Christmas theme

as well as the clouds.