Winter Wonderland - The Beginnings....

To contrast my fabulous Key West weekend, here's some pictures from this morning! Yes! This morning in my back yard house in NJ. Here's my silly Luna discovering snow.

BFFs!

I haven't posted any animals lately so thought I'd share some pictures of my friend's cute pets (lovely pugs and a shy cat with the most amazing eyes). I love photographing them although it might be one of the hardest things to photograph.

Ok, so after looking at those pictures I realized that I haven't posted anything of my BFF lately!!! Shame on me! Here is Luna:

That last one makes me laugh every time I look at it. Marcin says that I've managed to take human portrait of her AND she looks like some sort of a Socialist Leader! Don't ask me where he's getting all those ideas from...

Luna

Ok, so we named our dog Luna - moon. We got her on earth day so we were looking for something that had to do with nature (Marcin loved the idea with his Ecology background- he must have named all the trees in Latin and half of them were not even close to dog's name). I came up with Luna, since she was so nervous the first night, walking around the house and not being able to sleep or let us rest we decided for that particular name. I still call her "doggy" because she's just such a sweet and silly dog.

On the other hand she's crazy, she managed to shred into pieces all the toys we got her, bones last her few hours and once she's done my house is a mess!

Despite all this she's really good and still very scared dog... Her story is sad; she was caged all her short life (she's a year), malnourished and abused - despite all this, the dog has unconditional love for us, humans and longs for touching and approval. I am most honored to have such dog in my life and sure she'll be our dearest companion for long time.

Here's her typical pass time while I'm working on editing:

Please meet Max

This is Max, not the most caring model in the world but a favorite of my family! Actually a favorite of my mother...so much so that she much rather have me taking photos of him doing nothing then of her...
Yes, I did try to have him engage in this photo-shoot without luck, he cares less and just wants to either play or be caressed.... a true king of the house...
Forgive me, his hair was undone!

And this is his owner, my mother; in the rare times she lets me take a photo of her...