Chat ~Saturday, November 7, 2009, Is everybody sleeping in?

George, your photos are wonderful... love the black and white.. and the colorful ivy on the outside of the prison... very depressing place I might add....

Karen - So happy about little Allen's arrival - he may not like his pic later on, but his family will cherish it forever.

Just saw the repeat on Animal Planet "Untamed and Uncut" re the chicks (Spirit & Skye) getting knocked off the PH nest by the intruder - saw Robin, Deb, a quick look at Sara, Dr. Sharpe, Stephanie, Dr. Weldy - wish both of them had made it to a long life - but at least we still have Spirit.

Love all the postings by all the great camera shots and those found on the internet - happy belated birthday to all who have celebrated lately.

So very, very sad about Ft. Hood shooting - Kevin is now at Ft. Bliss, but his house is in Killeen - said he doesn't know anyone who was shot - all his friends at Ft. Hood have been deployed to Iraq.

My baby, Kevin, will celebrate his 38th birthday on Mon. 11-9 - my oldest, Karen turned 40 this year 6-8 - gosh I'm feeling old - and now Karen's youngest is in uniform with the Cadet Air Patrol - there high school has no ROTC, but there is CAP (not part of the school).

Have a great weekend!

Hi Sheila.. Happy birthday to Keven on Monday... How is Roger these days?? still doing his hiking and biking?? How are things at the Zoo??? I told the girls we would go soon... wish you were online more... miss you...

That would be how i would do it using the clone stamp tool in ps. Of course this could be a problem if you wanted to keep the grass adjacent to the tourist

Not all shots are easy to remove extraneous distractions from. I know it can be done but i dont have the ps skill level nor the patience to even try it often times. However it can be a godsend to remove less detailed items such as poles and such comming up from behind the head of somebody in a shot

Before I shuffle off to bed for much needed rest, I thought i would show two images of one of the few "Restored" areas of the prison. These are two images of the prison synagog for the jewish inmates. Apparantly, there was a rabbi who assisted the jewish inmates who finally got a Temple to go with the Inmate Chapel that the rest of the inmate popluation used. This has been properly restored and if i recall was just recently unvieled to visitors. I think this area is also leant out to some groups for bar/bot mitzvahs and other ceremonies but for some reason I dont understand why anyone would want to say "yes irvink, i had my bar mitzvah in prison, but it did sort of remind me of hebrew school we went to when we were kids"

What can i say i am just a dumb goy

While plain they really did a nice job restoring this area of the prison and its actually the nicest area of the prison restored so far too.


For some reason this area above where i think the Torah Scrolls are kept in a synagog sort of caught my eye wtih the way the light was hitting it. It was the first thing that caught my eye when i walked in and saw it on the far wall. The tones of the wood used in this temple were captivating to the eye as well

Sheila...this is too funny but my younger brother's name is Kevin! But I also have an older sister, Kathleen. You and my mom have the same taste in names

Hope everyone had a great day.

today's photos are wonderful - love that tree Ian!
Sheila - glad to hear Kevin is well - my nephew is stationed out of Ft. Hood but left a week ago Thurs and is now in Korea for a year ..... so he wasn't there either!
Long afternoon wrapping up loose ends for the ceremony tomorrow - ES and I just finished the programs and I have some "memory" photos of Kevin's scouting career with our troop yet to print - then off to bed!

be well everyone - check in tomorrow