Since the Rebel was still very much new, I decided to play with some of the settings while capturing why I love Christmas. I do love that at this time of year people are for the most part nicer to each other and I absolutely love to give people gifts but I adore all the sparkley decorations and lights of the Christmas Season.
I love peace signs, probably because my parents were hippies but I recently learned the symbol is the semaphore (using flags to communicate over a distance) symbols for “N” and “D” encircled. The it was created for part of the nuclear disarmament campaign and that is why those letters were chosen.
While I like to put up many trees (usually seven) and I joke that the house is a mini-forest, this the big tree and the center of attention.
It is probably because snow is so rare in Texas that I love all decorations with snowflakes.
I was so proud of myself for throwing the decoration on the corner of the table together after my cats broke the oil lamp that was there; alas, the decoration barely made it past Christmas morning before the cats took it out.
This one of my favorite decorations because of the colors.
For our annual Christmas Party I like to have the whole house non-traditionally lite which with as many decorations as I have isn’t too hard.
I absolutely adore they way these catch whatever light is closest to them.
I am a self professed Hello Kitty freak; one of the seven trees is solely a Hello Kitty tree but this is one of my big collectible ornaments.
This next one is one of my very favorites because of the attention to detail, it caught my eye at the top of the tree and was the last one they had at Neiman Marcus and it was one of their 2007 limited editions.
Rather than common self portraits I like catching my reflection better.
Soon Dahlings, we will go play under the full moon like Vampires. ☽
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Let us begin by saying that cyber Monday was a good day and there were some very good deals; this post is so late in coming because it took time to play with the new toy coming from point and shoots previously, they were some interesting and fun differences to get used to. So this post is to share a few of the fun trial shots I took enjoying the Rebel.
The first shot I took was of a full moon, I loved the haze that was created around the moon. It is said that this foretells rain because of the moisture in the air.
The next night I was lucky enough to catch the beginnings of a lunar eclipse, in this first picture the shadow of the earth is barely visable.
There is only slightly more of the moon covered here but I really liked the odd color of the haze around it.
This is about as far as it got before the cloudy skies obscured the whole thing but it was still a thrilling experience to capture what I did of it.
This is actually one I took on the morning of the snow day; I was playing with the macro setting and loved that it caught the kitty tracks in the snow.
I hate to admit but this guy is one of my favorite late night visitors, he comes right up to the sliding glass door and looks around like y’all got food in there but don’t be fooled he is actually pretty good sized.
Hope you enjoyed my discovery time as much as I did. Buenas Noches for now. 🙂
❅Snow Day❅
I am so far south in Texas that snow is a very rare occasion for us, in fact it had literally been decades since the last time it snowed here. Prior to this February the last time it snowed in San Antonio was January 13, 1985; I was old enough to not only remember it but played in it, made snow angels and snowpeople who were taller than me. To this day it seems like a fairy tale and is one of my fondest childhood memories, as we looked over the pristine blanket that coated our front yard I remember my father saying that it had not snowed here for almost thirty years, in fact since he was a boy. So almost thirty years later, I sat glued to the weather channel like a kid waiting up for Santa on Christmas. I’d known since much earlier in the day that it was going to snow, I have traveled to winter places on vacation and seen snow besides the event here as a child. I knew the conditions were perfect and it smelled like snow from about two in the afternoon on. I was ecstatic when I saw the first tweets that the sleet was changing into snow, I threw on some warm clothes and wandered into the night with a broken toe to capture this rare occasion. With out further adieu, snow in South Texas.
There is nothing like looking up into the sky as snow is falling.
This is actually a view of the street once it was completely coated.
You know some type of weed is the only thing hardy enough to be this green after days of freezing weather.
I loved the way the snow looked against the night sky.
Still a kid at heart and I still love the snow.
HAHA! Well, this is a new sight!
The same weed as before, I just felt he determination to be green deserved a little extra help.
It truly was a magical night and it will probably be a long time before we see another like it.
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” Margaret Atwood
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