[Leica] Tree hunting

[dnaplasmid at compwrx.com (Aram Langhans)]

It is quite a bit early for us to do this, but on Thanksgiving day we went 
up to the mountains (a 40 mile trip) to cut down our Christmas tree.  The 
weather was fine when we left Yakima, but it was showing pretty good and had 
to put chains on the truck to get up the forest service road to find a tree. 
I forgot my jacket (well, I thought my wife had packed it) but even though 
it was snowing, there was no wind and trapsing around through knee deep snow 
up and down a hillside kept me plenty warm.  Here are a few shots of the 
excursion.  Sorry, they are digital.  Slide film goes in Monday fromt he R8. 
The only reason we are doing this so early this year is that our cat of the 
last 12 years, who really enjoys the lighted tree, is dying of Feline Aids 
and probably will not make it much longer.  Right he has moved out of the 
room he has spend the last two weeks in and is sitting under the tree gazing 
at the lights.  It is heart warming to see this, yet heart breaking at the 
same time.  I know, he is only a cat, but we have no kids and he has been 
our family for the last 12 years.

So, view and enjoy the photos.  Comments welcome.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/Tree+Hunting+2006/

Aram