Are you ready???

Are you ready for New Year's Eve???

If you aren't yet stocked up with enough *bubbly,* I'm sure there is more.
Waiting to be bought and brought home and chilled.

How ever you celebrate, or even if you don't celebrate New Year's Eve....
I wish all of you a Happy and Healthy New Year of 2008!

Meet "Lucy"

This is "Lucy," a neighbor family's dog. Isn't she the cutest thing? That strap you see, is the strap to my camera, when she was coming up for an "up-close-and-personal" visit. ,-) Not a good capture, I know. But I just had to shooooooooooooot. :-)
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My husband got her to mostly stop. But she is just soooooo happy to see everyone! I must learn how to do the-shutter-speed-thing, to get more pics of "Lucy." :-)

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Snowy morning, in Park

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Perhaps you remember my photo of a pond in Autumn? This above, is approximately the same view.

I say 'approximately' because when I took the Autumn view, I could walk over from the path, on to the grass, and avoid that pole I guess.... But I wasn't going to trudge over in the snow. We did lots of trudging through snow, to get other shots, though. Which will be coming...

And it was not done in black and white. You can see the bricks of the Casino, showing pale through the falling snow. I simply took the picture, while experimenting with the 'snow setting' on the new camera. {Ohhhh sigh! I have so much to learn, about the new camera!}