Friday, January 2, 2009

au revoir fall leaves, bonjour winter freeze


the fountain at jardin du luxembourg

happy new year! bonne année! chuc mung nam moi!

i don't know about you, but we'd just about had enough of 2008 chez barnes peden. i love the new year. i usually make it a point to spend the first day of the year in my pjs, which given my line of work, could happen any old day, but i try to limit it to the first... and some sundays... now, knox and i are not known for our new year's eve antics ("amateur night," as he calls it), but this year was particularly... umm... boring? since knox was leaving bright and early in the morning for nyc, we spent our evening packing and doing laundry (though not quickly enough sadly - we stepped away for a moment only to return to a locked-up laverie with our clothes still in the dryer! he had to leave without his favorite argyle socks!). knox did cook up a delicious batch of walnut chicken (a peden family favorite), and we managed to stay up till midnight, but... well, i'd wager the frozen horses had a wilder night than we did.

a horse made of bronze covered in ice





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