This shot is from NYE.  Today we have inches of lake effect snow.  Life surrounded by the Great Lakes – one day it’s 50 the next there’s a windchill of -10.

I really don’t think I could live any where else.

Too big?  Experimental.  Cold and snowy.  Highways closed.  January.

There’s a winter weather advisory for us for tomorrow.  Girlie is doing everything to avoid getting into her pj’s.  I’m still trying to thaw my digits.  I would be lost without tea and wool.

Today is peanut butter toast and tea that goes cold too quickly.

Miss W and I wish you a very happy new year!  May your 2011 be the best year yet.

I don’t have any naval gazing thoughts on the year past or on the year to come.  Some pretty awesome things happened this year and some pretty heartbreaking things happened as well.  I think that’s what they call Life.

Miss W went to her grandparents’ to spend the night so I had many hours to myself today.  I drove around my “neighborhood” shooting the countryside.  Then I went home and shot my Ruger.  I took the ornaments off the tree.  I went to the hardware store and bought the picture frame wire I had forgotten.  I decided (again) that the quiet is overrated.

It was gloomy and thundery rainy and 50ish today.  Which at first seemed like a depressing way to ring in the new year.  But I do love a good thundery rain and I decided that it wasn’t so depressing, really.  Fluffy snowmannable snow would have been nicer, sure, but it’s Michigan, so you learn not to expect too much in the way of weather cooperation.

All in all, a good day.  2010 draws to a close and I’m still standing.  I still have people I love and who love me.  And that’s a good place to be.

Miss W had a play date with her “BFF” today. Those girls are nuts! Just like girls all over. Now I’m trying to figure out the new blog location and get things situated. I think we’ll all like it better over here. Eventually. Don’t worry, it’ll be revealed as soon as we fix what got broken 😉

Today’s photo assignment comes from Deb. “Shoot five and make one work.” Arm’s length with the 50mm, here it is. This is “blartsy” or something, right? The title is from Buffalo Tom’s Bad Phone Call off the Three Easy Pieces album.

I’m going to go finish knitting my gauge swatch so I can get started on my sweater. Yes, I’m finally knitting something for myself.