What we did on the night of Halloween

Since we only had two kids visit our house last Halloween, we decided to go to the mall instead of waiting an eternity for the doorbell to ring.  I've been wanting to buy a new camera for a while so we visited the camera store at the mall.  I have a wonderful Nikon CoolPix S7 now that takes great photos but there is no view finder on it.  Taking photos in bright sun has been a challenge for me with that camera.  So, I decided to get a Canon PS1200is (one of the last cameras to have a view finder.)

Our mall usually has something going on, and on Halloween they had exhibitions of hand-crafted items.  We just fell in love with the display of wooden hand-tooled bowls.  We must have spent 15 minutes just looking at and feeling the wonderful smoothness of the bowls.  After a bit, we chatted with the artist and found out his studio is only a few miles from us!  In fact, we both moved to Chalfont in 1976.  I got to ask his wife what it was like to live with a true artist, and she just groaned! 

My husband, always thinking ahead of me, said why don't you try your new camera out by taking some photos of these wonderful bowls?  So I did, and here they are...