A Lovable Eccentric

Last year I did a layout of a relative of my ex-SIL.  His name is Mervin and he is a flea market hound.  Every Wednesday he goes to the Leesport, PA flea market and searches for treasures.  His house is filled to the brim with all his finds so he tells the vendors he can't buy any more until his house expands.  He is just so lovable, I want to squeeze him.
We met Mervin again a few weeks ago at that very same flea market.  I almost didn't recognize him because he had on a new hat and a brand new pair of overalls.  Still the same Mervin and still looking, wanting to buy,  but not buying.
I'll do an updated layout using this photo soon.  I think I'll leave the other people in the background because the theme will be about his flea market buying.  What so you think?

JUST A BIT OF FUN TODAY

I took this photo last week while at a farmer's market.  A pen of goats were waiting to be auctioned off.  I started taking lots of photos but  had no idea this photo was going to be so cute.

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...