All good wishes to you for the New Year! I'm off until next week. We'll be visiting with Grandma and Grandpa in Albuquerque for the rest of the holidays. I am so looking forward to 2009 and all the promise it holds!
We skied this morning. I'm glad I still have my face. So fun, but SO COLD!!! And, no, this isn't my picture... it's one of the web cams at Beaver Creek. My fingers would have frozen if I'd tried to take pictures. So much fun, though.
my version of the pretty shoe photo...
It's still snowing today, and I couldn't resist going out for a snowshoe on the trail...
And here we are tonight...
Peaceful.
The Dummy Gelunde contest is goofy... contestants create dummy laden structures to send down a ski jump. The winner is the entry with the best combination of creativity, speed, flight and complete destruction upon crashing. Some of this year's entries included Santa on a sleigh, a Nasdaq machine, Dick Cheney driving a motorcycle, and a car representing the Big 3. First they have to haul them up...
Then they let 'em fly...
Santa won. Beautiful flight...complete carnage. The bobsledder on the recliner was impressive, too. 
These Hans Wegner folding chairs (I love these!) 
This Claude Conover "Sayal" stoneware.
This Phil Powell spindle-back sofa.
This Tiffany Peacock Vase.
and this Tiffany Turtleback Tile Lantern.
Well, we found our own Christmas tree in the forest. I was picturing something sparse, but with long, delicate branches at least. Like something out of a Sundance catalogue, maybe, or like the lovelies above. What we got was tall and skinny and a little curvy in the trunk (I'm calling her our runway model). We were in pretty high spirits for the first 15 minutes or so, then mr. contrary kicked in. But, ask a 3 1/2-year-old to hike on snow shoes in two-plus feet of snow at 11,000 feet and maybe you're setting yourself up. So we cajoled, took out the Christmas cookies, found a tree and cut it quick. By the time we were sawing, photos were a low priority...I have none of us with the tree! It was truly beautiful up there. Husband and I will have to go for a longer trek sometime soon. When our svelte beauty (c. brown really would love it) is decked out a bit, I'll post some photos. Until then, here is our quest...
tree images from Martha Stewart Home and Country Living.
I first saw Cori Kindred's work just a few weeks ago, having been led to her by abby try again. She has a beautiful way with the polaroid, and I particularly liked this print. It arrived today, it's just as lovely in person, and I'm very happy to have it.
This Jan and Joel Martel 
This Tommi Parzinger 
See the woodpecker?