I am a Christian! — Age 66, and overweight (I'm working on fixing that). I've worked at Aultman hospital for 43 years, most of that time as an RN. I have taught High School: Earth Science, Biology and Chemistry, sold water softeners, cut Christmas trees, worked in a steel mill and various other assorted jobs including 6 years in the Army Reserve as an OR Tech.

I've been married to my wonderful wife, Karen, for 39 years We have two grown children: Michael, the oldest, and Marci, the youngest We have one grandchild, Norah age 7.

I've been taking photos since my uncle gave me an old Kodak Brownie 50+ years ago. As a college student I upgraded from a Kodak Instamatic and an old Argus C3, to a SLR Mamiya — still my favorite, but who can afford the film. I have tons of 35mm slides I'd like to scan to digital, but I'm not sure how to do that ( any advice for that project would be appreciated) The current camera I'm using is my second digital. the first was a Kodak again). Sure, I'd like a different (and newer one) camera, but no one has offered to buy one for me.

1. Yellowjacket on fennel leaf, 2. Leesville Lake, 3. Ringtailed lemer-Akron Zoo, 4. Orange Hawkweed, 5. Tiger swallowtail, 6. Striped cucumber beetle, 7. woody, 8. Not now — I'm ready to bloom,

9. Lookin out my back door, 10. fungus, 11. Cooper's Hawk, 12. honeybee on aster, 13. Honey bee on pink aster, 14. Wasp on Chinese Chives, 15. Soldier Beetle on ironweed, 16. pink flamingo,

17. Carolina wren, 18. Winter snow, 19. goldfinch, 20. Ice-cold Bud, 21. Pink Flowers, 22. Wasp, 23. Framed - about to land, 24. Sunset Sanibel Causeway,

25. Milkweed seeds, 26. Tricolor and Ibis, 27. HB on Coneflower, 28. Red-bellied Woodpecker, 29. Florida Butterfly, 30. 3 BEES on a BUDdelia, 31. Lubber Grasshopper, 32. PINK rose - Brest Cancer Awareness Month,

33. Shasta Daisy - Crazy Daisy my Garden, 34. Timken Co. Icicles