First of all, Nancy, Elizabeth and I want to wish you all a very Happy Holiday season!
Second I realize how ridiculous this post looks, being so late as it is. However I am invoking the convention that Christmas decorations can be up until a week following New Years. Perhaps that's weak justification but I've also been told that we can't make subsequent posts until this one gets done, so...
The picture heading the post is, of course, our Holiday Card for this year. Now before any of you start placing indignant, angry calls to PETA I have to tell you that this entire holiday greeting card thing was Nancy's idea. I think Charlie's electric blue wig gift gave her ideas...
I also want to parry any accusations of photoshopping. Nancy actually wore the hat in the photograph! And it wasn't the "quick-you-put-it-on-jump-out-of-frame-and-I'll-shoot" sort of operation I thought it would be. She actually posed comfortably for quite some time. Here are a few out takes (you can see she noticed the little mouse in the beard):
Ok, I did photoshop her to be in front of our tree – but the point is Nancy fully participated!
We went up to Petaluma – a town about a half hour to the north, in Sonoma County – to pick up a tree. I won't drag this out with lengthy descriptions, rather I'll just post the pictures...
There. Done. On to 2009!
