Festive Yule
Dec. 24th, 2010 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_jackelMay you all eat, drink and be merry, enjoy the festivities and all of that. I'm having a wonderful solstice week.
'Tis the season for heartwarming cute pet photos. I think that what I got are a bunch of very honest pet photos.
My Yule decorations look pretty cool this year, but it's hard to get the light in Camp Meeker to cooperate with the camera at the best of times, much less at midwinter during a storm. This year's tree is my favorite of all the ones I've ever had, s a really cute little 4-foot cork bark fir with silvery needles and a stubby trunk. I totally love it. It's slow-growing and will theoretically thrive in a shady forest, so let's hope it is happy as a potted plant for the next several years. Bringing a tree in the house to string lights and baubles on and celebrate appeals strongly to my sense of ritual, but I would really prefer a Yule tree that I can bring in year after year. This is not because I particularly disapprove of farmed, cut trees, but because a happy little living conifer is more fun for me as a symbol of arboreal veneration than watching a dead one slowly wilt and drop needles.
The Norfolk Island Pine I've used for the last two years is still alive, but not up to being brought in and decorated by a long shot. I may give it to someone who has more sun where they live.
You can gather from the following pictures that my pack can be groomed and posed as much as I want, but that they will make their opinion of this very clear.
Bliss is a very lurcher-y collie! His tall, curved-back legginess is not to show standard, but it happens to be a look that I really like in the breed, and I never got him as a conformation dog anyway. Pretty tall blue thing is pretty. Also a dork.
Yeah. So I'm staying. Are you almost done with your stupid camera?
Coba's "festive and clean" holiday pics from Thanksgiving. I think he looks like he's making faces like Calvin in that 'Calvin & Hobbes' cartoon about the photos.
These are the best.
These were also from Thanksgiving, when I went up to Mendocino county to see my mom.
It's fungus season here.
Bliss runs.
Now we're back to this morning. I walked up to the ridge; everything is green, gray and storm-washed.
Coba is an expressive little dog. Here he is having a good time.
More tall and snouty
Jez didn't want to be in the picture.
pack
Tidings of comfort and joy, everyone!
'Tis the season for heartwarming cute pet photos. I think that what I got are a bunch of very honest pet photos.
My Yule decorations look pretty cool this year, but it's hard to get the light in Camp Meeker to cooperate with the camera at the best of times, much less at midwinter during a storm. This year's tree is my favorite of all the ones I've ever had, s a really cute little 4-foot cork bark fir with silvery needles and a stubby trunk. I totally love it. It's slow-growing and will theoretically thrive in a shady forest, so let's hope it is happy as a potted plant for the next several years. Bringing a tree in the house to string lights and baubles on and celebrate appeals strongly to my sense of ritual, but I would really prefer a Yule tree that I can bring in year after year. This is not because I particularly disapprove of farmed, cut trees, but because a happy little living conifer is more fun for me as a symbol of arboreal veneration than watching a dead one slowly wilt and drop needles.
The Norfolk Island Pine I've used for the last two years is still alive, but not up to being brought in and decorated by a long shot. I may give it to someone who has more sun where they live.
You can gather from the following pictures that my pack can be groomed and posed as much as I want, but that they will make their opinion of this very clear.
Bliss is a very lurcher-y collie! His tall, curved-back legginess is not to show standard, but it happens to be a look that I really like in the breed, and I never got him as a conformation dog anyway. Pretty tall blue thing is pretty. Also a dork.
Yeah. So I'm staying. Are you almost done with your stupid camera?
Coba's "festive and clean" holiday pics from Thanksgiving. I think he looks like he's making faces like Calvin in that 'Calvin & Hobbes' cartoon about the photos.
These are the best.
These were also from Thanksgiving, when I went up to Mendocino county to see my mom.
It's fungus season here.
Bliss runs.
Now we're back to this morning. I walked up to the ridge; everything is green, gray and storm-washed.
Coba is an expressive little dog. Here he is having a good time.
More tall and snouty
Jez didn't want to be in the picture.
pack
Tidings of comfort and joy, everyone!
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Date: 2010-12-25 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-25 04:28 pm (UTC)Yay!
Wonderful piccys :)
Thank You for sharing them!
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Date: 2010-12-25 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-26 04:30 am (UTC)Those are such heart warming shots. Wow Chaos has gotten big and Coba sure is a cutey. He's got the silliest looks.
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Date: 2010-12-27 09:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-01 08:20 pm (UTC)Banana slug. <3