a whole new ball of wax

hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving. we did. the food was delicious. i ate way too much. it was a bit of madness though at the marshall's house. but, that is the norm around there. anyway, hope everyone had lots of food and family and things for which to give thanks (if i said 'things to give thanks for', i would be ending the sentence with a preposition, clearly a no-no, thus the crazy wording and now the run-on explanation).

after we got home, we decided to go for an evening walk, as is tradition after eating a meal of that magnitude. it's tradition in our family anyway. the weather wasn't too bad. so we bundled ruby up in her new snow-suit (from grandma) for the first time and off we went. the sun dropped and so did the temperature.

i am pleased we went though because i was able to grab this shot. Lisa had the dogs and i was pushing ruby. she sat patiently in the stroller for about 30 seconds. i had time for 2 shots. this was one of them. i'm still learning my lensbaby and would love to spend a whole weekend by myself getting up early to catch sunrises and staying up late to get sunsets and snap myself silly. it's an amazing lens. i thought i might get annoyed by having to actually think, compose, evaluate. i have to do everything manually since the lens doesn't work electronically with my camera. i am digging in my brain for everything i learned in all my courses in college and the things i've read and studied myself. it's been challenging and stimulating. plus this is only the beginning.

what do you think?