Holiday kitties

Okay.....these may be the last photos of my cats this year, but at least this time they're in costume!  Hobbes loves (yes really) his jingle collar.  Suzy hates (but of course) her Rudolph ears.  Mojo ran from all the fun and hasn't been seen since (the smart cat).

Simplicity

With all the color and glitz of Christmas photos the past few days, I was drawn today to something simple, serene and minimalist.  This is a small stone I like.  I brought it home from our trip to Utah last spring, and given all the many gazillion rocks we saw on our trip, for some reason, I liked this little pebble.  It has a nice heft for its size, good texture and fits well in my hand.  I keep it on my vanity and it makes me feel serene.  Not sure why it has that impact on me.....I guess some things are hard to explain, and this is just one of them.  So even though this is a very simple image, it seems an apt antidote for overload of holiday stress.

Lights all aglow

Put my lens on manual focus and intentionally blurred these images to take these abstract photos of the Christmas lights around our house.

Dinner party

We had fun with some great friends tonight at a dinner party at our house.  Of course, the price they had to pay was being the subject of tonight's blog.  I guess you can tell how they felt about that......

It's Christmastime in our house

Finally finished decorating today and the house looks so festive!  The images are a little dark, but I didn't have time to play around with them tonight.  I'll do a better set before we take down the tree.  Anyway....fa la la la la!

Night scenes in NoDa

In NoDa tonight for dinner and the streets were decked for the holidays.  Here are a few scenes.

Night out with the girls

Had a fun night out tonight with some good friends at Dean & Deluca wine bar.  The photos are a little blurred and grainy since I didn't want to use a flash and it was fairly dark, but everyone still looked adorable as usual!  I really liked them in this creamy black and white tone.