Gnomes in my garden on Thanksgiving day.

I have a thing for photography.  My dad used to have a home made dark room when I was little, and I loved helping him out in the red colored lab.  It was pretty neat, watching him through the shadows, working his way around the chemicals and the papers.  I grew up finding stacks of pictures all around the house, my mom trying to keep up with him while putting the family albums together.  She would label the pictures and put funny notes in them, just a little reminder of the story behind the frozen image.

Now, with all the digital revolution, dark rooms have been replaced by computers and Photoshop. No more red lights in dark rooms.  I bought a digital SLR camera about a year ago and now I'm the one taking pictures all the time.  Just before sitting down to have our Thanksgiving dinner, I went to my garden and took this picture.  I bought several of these gnome figurines and placed them all around my front garden.  So here it is... I want to call this one Leo.  Don't ask me why.

Dinner was lovely and really good.  My sister left Tuesday to meet with her new boyfriend in NYC.  After six years of living with her girlfriend (yes, that's right), she now decided she fell in love with this guy and wants to be a mother.  This in itself is an entirely different post so I'm going to save it for later.  My mom and dad are still here through next Monday.  We watched Wall-E after everything was cleaned and put away.  I loved it!! The guys at Pixar have always been able to steal my heart... so thanks again for delivering :-)

Tomorrow I have work, can you believe that!? I'll be the only one having to wake up in the morning.  I guess I better start wrapping up my day.  At least I got to play with my gnomes today.  And hopefully tomorrow won't be such a lousy day at work.