More Christmas Pages

A few more to look at.

Christmas Memories

Well, here it is the 29th of December and Christmas is over. I'm sending up a few pictures from our celebration of the Holiday. It was quiet but nice and you have already seen the ROAST. New Years is upon us. Homer will be in front of the TV watching Bowl Games and I will be working at the store for part of New Years Day. We wish all of you a great New Year!

The Christmas Roast

The perfect roast for carnivores. Mary and I grabbed the middle pieces and Dad and Homer ate the end slices. Does everyone who reads this blog know that if you click on the picture you can see it big enough to read the journaling? Homer didn't know that so had his nose almost on the screen trying to read the small print! He's not the most computer literate person I know. Happy Christmas to all of you. Many more pages to follow so you can feel a part of our Christmas celebrations on Carriage Lane.

Ice Storm of 2008

Here is what it looked like today on Carriage Lane.

Ready for Christmas

Here is the final decorated house. Looks good to us and now you far flung family can see it also!

Putting up the tree

I try to do this when Mary is here. She enjoys it so much; it makes me enjoy it also. For the record, I did not post some of the more "interesting" pictures of this process.

Thankful

Some scenes from Thanksgiving at our house, The turkey was better than ever before, the conversation witty and erudite, and of course there was plenty of football to watch.
I hope all of you faithful blog followers had a great holiday also.

Cucumbers

Diane took these pictures while we were getting Thanksgiving dinner prepared. Mary was not pleased that I actually put the cucumbers in the salad and was glaring at me when Diane took the picture.

Looking in

Just fooling around in photoshop a little bit this morning when I have a thousand things to do before I go to work. Terribly addicting. When I get my laptop I suppose it will be even worse because I then won't be tied to this work station and think of the possibilities when on VACATION! No more boredom while Homer watches TV from the inside of his eyelids. Last vacation I read 6 books. Next year, think of the pages I can create instead.

Applehead dolls

I thought I'd make a few pages from the past since I have no new photos to work with. I'm working too much. I'll take a bunch over Thanksgiving so you can all see what I'm up to these days.

Bell Ringing

I meant to post this earlier but I filed it under something odd and forgot about it.

The Cardinal

Here he is, a little skittish so it's hard to get the best pictures of him, but I keep trying.

Alice 's 80th Birthday

Two new pages today. I did them a while ago but forgot to put them up here. We so enjoyed Alice's 80th birthday lunch in Connecticut.

All Saint's Day

I used some of Christine's photos of The All Saint's Day tradition of placing Candles on graves. What an interesting practice. Just seeing her pictures of the massed candles on some gravesites and others where there are only a few candles for family members was so eye opening. Other cultures have so many different ideas from our rather provincial outlook. I love seeing her pictures and hearing of her new experiences.

A Peaceful Place

I forgot to post this layout. I like how I made the photo look old and wrinkled.

The October Photographers

What a great afternoon we had walking the paths behind the houses down to the river. I went through these photos again and found I had all three of us taking pictures of each other.

Fort William Henry

I don't think the cannons at this fort were ever fired at an enemy. Pretty cool place nonetheless.

Lunch

This was a cool place to eat and the food was good also!

Old Headstones

It's always interesting to see these old gravestones and read the inscriptions. This site was so lovely.

Matt and Emily

Emily sent me this wonderful photo of her and Matt. It's quite good of the both of them. I've been wanting to use this window frame for a page and I think it works well with this picture.

Swinging Bridge

Took these photos on our way back from Pemaquid

More Pemaquid

Two more pages of our day at Pemaquid. Dave and Marsha are on their way back home as I write this. Hope they like what I've done with our various pictures of their visit with us.

Still in our 40's

This was such a fun day. Great weather, good food and excellent company!

Visit with Dave and Marsha

The weather was wonderful, a little chilly for Marsha but bright and sunny. Took lots of photos to make many pages. These are only the first ones!

Our Not Forgotten Hero

Last one for today as I have to go to work. Dad and I drove around yesterday in this old cemetery looking for Joshua Chamberlain's grave. I knew it was in there but not exactly where. Found it!

More Trees

I think after this one I only have a couple more pages to go with my current obsession with trees in autumn colors.

Trees

These photos were taken on Monday when it was totally dreary outside. No sun, just heavy overcast. The colors of the trees still stand out!

Along the Androscoggin

I bought a new digital scrapbooking kit yesterday and I think it will go nicely with all my spectacular foliage pictures. I like the shabby cardboard behind the photo.

Fall Colors in Maine

Had time to do one layout and wanted to get it posted right away. More coming later this week.

More Foliage

I couldn't resist putting one more picture up for you to see.

Fall Foliage

No photoshop page this time, just a couple of beautiful pictures of the fall colors I photographed this morning near our house and along the Androscoggin River between Turner and Leeds. I took quite a few pictures and will get to scrapping them soon but I have to work 4 days this week! Bummer.

Lazy Day

Here we are doing not a whole lot but having fun doing it!

Poolside

Some of the family being goofy.

Together

I love how these photos turned out. It was so wonderful to see Sue after all this time. What a wonderful weekend we had.

My Guys

I really like this photo of Homer and Den. The Pratt sweatshirts help. Love the colors. It was a gorgeous fall weekend in PA. More great photos and pages to come.

The Art of Happiness...

I used pictures from Denis and Joyce visiting Sue at Pratt for these pages.

Autumn Leaves

Learning how to extract objects correctly in Photoshop has taken a while. Now I think I've got it! Doing these leaves was such fun. I even created the background and the frame myself so I guess you'd say I created this layout "from scratch"

A Beautiful Day in my backyard

This year the Fall colors are exceptionally beautiful. I just keep taking pictures!

Hockey Weekend

I have lots to post tonight since we were at UNH yesterday to see Erik play hockey. There are 3 pages for you all to enjoy. It's great for all the far apart family members to see these pages. Grandpa and I enjoyed the game, me mostly trying to get the definitive pictures of the plays(didn't happen) but got lots of pix of Eric with his distinctive yellow stick. Also a few of the spectators aka family.