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Hans van Reenen showed me Four reflections in a row . Thanks , Hans !

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Stairway to Heaven is up there as one of my favorite photos that I've taken. It was taken during the 2014 Winter season at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and clearly shows the LIDAR beams going into the atmosphere from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atmospheric Research Observatory's roof.

This is my humble dedication to Via Moi, my Flickr friend. I am always impressed by

the macro and abstract pictures of this genius from Ottawa, Canada. This picture is an inspiration

from his "Table salt" www.flickr.com/photos/viamoi/3064547470/in/set-7215760326....

I used sugar crystals sprayed on a CD. The in-built flash of the camera was on. Though not very good I like it.

Have a nice day.

This is sweeter on Black with F11.

Explored on 05 08 2009 #465.

went back to my old studio after 3 months to find...

This was such a fun water droplet refraction image to make, partly because it was done with the GH5 and partly because it was done in Bulgaria near the Black Sea. Two dandelion seeds dancing in the light of a poppy – read on!

While walking through a row of flower shops in Varna, Bulgaria, I spotted one solitary poppy among an array of daisies and roses. It was a huge flower, and I knew it would work well for a refraction photograph. Typically I choose daisy-like flowers with flat symmetrical petals, but poppies are close enough in design to make the same magic. Along the streets of Varna you’d had a hard time missing the dandelions, so it was easy to pick up a seed head and bring it back to our apartment to set up the shot.

Aside: for those of you that don’t know, my wife is originally from Bulgaria and we visit every year or two. It’s an incredibly beautiful country with multiple mountain ranges and a coastline, located in Eastern Europe north of Greece and Turkey. If you’re looking for an interesting travel destination, this is it!

The staging of the shot is fairly simple, but all of the puzzle pieces need to fall in just the right place. I used my Canon MR-14EX II ringlite in manual mode attached to a Panasonic GH5, though the ring was not fixed to the lens. The only way you can successfully use a ring flash for droplet refractions is to push the ring forward enough that it doesn’t cast any light on the droplets – effectively, the seeds are placed inside the center of the ring. If the flash was properly mounted to the lens, the light from the flash would hit the droplets first and flower second, resulting in nasty catch-lights in the droplets and an underwhelming refraction effect.

I’m loving the GH5 and the whole “premium micro four thirds” camera idea. In the case of macro photography, the 2X crop factor really works to your benefit to increase the magnification you’re able to achieve without any extras. No extension tubes required, just a macro lens to get this close – and I could have gotten closer! The Leica 45mm Macro from Panasonic is a gem… I’m going to be sad to give this back at the end of the month. Rapid-fire shooting is essential to get focus through the proper “slice” of the subject, as I physically move the camera forward and back to shift focus on this scale. The resulting images could have easily been focus stacked, but I felt that a single frame captured enough of the magic.

Shooting at F/8 gave me enough foreground focus to work with, while still presenting the background (the center of the poppy) out of focus. The balance here is always a bit tricky to establish, as the size of the flower (and inherently how far away from the focal plane it is) changes every time. There was about 10 minutes of tinkering in total done with camera settings, subject and light placement, and subject positioning.

The hardest part about this image was getting one dandelion seed to stay intertwined with the other. It’s easy when they’re dry, but as the droplets accumulate the seed gets heavier and falls off. Only one of the seeds is clamped in place! The setup needed to be re-staged four times before a supportive entanglement was found.

If you’d like to try and make an image like this, I teach photography workshops on exactly this subject here in my studio! The next workshop date is June 10th: www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/

These little Mason Bee's are so fast, but Fun to catch when their Flying.

Photographing this dandelion was almost therapeutic and when I was viewing each seed the way it is attached to the main head I see miracles.

I mean, do you see the little burrs and in which direction they are pointing ... Up.

This is why these suckers are so hard to pull out of the ground when you want to get rid of them. The seed has anchored itself, it grows big, you pull and it acts just like the wall plugs you put in the hole when you want a screw to stay there.

Amazing huh ... my keyboard is acting up, canèt get the apostrophe or question mark to type, instead I get this ... É of è. I donèt know what I did.

Anyway, when I saw this quote by the Dalai Lama it screamed to be applied here. What do you think É

Everything about leaving home, having home to come back to and wanting to stay ... sigh* Nature, the plan is already in motion. Beauty!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

I'm back from Amsterdam... Photos will come soon...

Another shot from Sceaux. Always treated by the K7. I make it darker, to accentuate the path of light...

NOTHING TO DO, NOWHERE TO GO. Fünfzehn Tage lang schweigen und sitzen im Zendo des Lasalle-Hauses in Bad Schönbrunn ZG. Das war ANGO 2020, ein besonders intensives Zen-Sesshin. In den Intervallen spazierte ich achtsam durch die Umgebung und machte Fotos, mein persönliches Samu. In den Neumond Nächten winkte der Komet NEOWISE aus dem Universum ...

My contribution to the 6th issue of Tiny Feet Magazine :)

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Estoy muy contenta de que me eligieran como colaboradora :P Las fotos las hice en enero que hacia un tiempo horrible y tampoco es que tuviese mucho material para esta temática así que apañé lo que pude pero espero que os gusten y encontreis que estan a la altura n_n

... try to imagine a night, the snow falling down, the lights of small windows on an empty square and the soft light of street lamps; try to imagine to be enveloped of a magic atmosphere of joy as in a magic fairy tale... a tree of lights appears as in a dream, it is the tree of life, the tree of Love, an ethereal lighting shape in the darkness... close your eyes for one moment, listen a soft music and do not think to anything only to the MAGIC...

AND THE MAGIC WILL BE...HERE FOREVER... HERE, WHEREVER YOU ARE...

This is Venice, a dream, a magic....

♪ ℳℰ℘ ♪ ♪ ℳℰ℘ ♪ ♪ ℳℰ℘ ♪ ♪ ℳℰ℘ ♪

This little squirrel keeps coming back to eat from one of the palm trees in my front yard. It seems to me that she's getting used to the camera and getting closer and closer each day. I couldn't resist the experiment!

Flickr's Explore Interestingness Calendar, July 16, 2006.

The talaiots are Bronze Age megaliths on the islands of Mallorca and Menorca (two of the Balearic Islands) forming part of the Talaiotic Culture or Talaiotic Period. They date back to the late second millennium and early first millennium BC. The Talaiot shown in this picture is located in Son Serra (Santa Margalida - Mallorca).

Last night I went to a near train station to take some shots. The train station is pretty big but fortunately its almost completely empty at night. So it was a lot of fun to photograph in this atmosphere. Especially with the possibilities of a DSLR. God, I love my camera :)

‘To be born woman is to know—

Although they do not talk of it at school—

That we must labour to be beautiful.’

I said, ‘It’s certain there is no fine thing

Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring.'

~ Extract from WB Yeats' Romantic poem 'Adams Curse'

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Today, it's the big questioning to myself!

I have to move my ass to find a true work...

If I make nothing I am going to lose everything. My work, my friends, my wife and especially the envy to live...

Dante, now, your fate is between your hands and see to it to lose nothing and to win everything.

My LooLoote i will to find it !!

Explorer Jan 5, 2009 #64

The Rauma is a river that runs through Romsdalen, a valley in Møre og Romsdal and Oppland counties in Norway. It runs for 68 kilometres (42 mi) from Lesjaskogsvatnet, a lake in the municipality of Lesja, to the town of Åndalsnes in the municipality of Rauma. The river was once famous for its salmon-fishing, but since an infection with Gyrodactylus salaris only 5 to 10% of the original stock survives. The salmon runs up to the Slettafoss, a 16-metre (52 ft) high combination of waterfalls and rapids more than 42 kilometres (26 mi) upriver from the estuary. Wikipedia

Back in 2001, I had a job in which our employer was closed on Fridays as an energy conservation measure. Naturally, I expended as much energy as possible each Friday in pursuit of rail photographic targets.

When my friend Scott O'Dell came down from Washington for a long weekend, we decided to go after the McCloud Railway. At the time, they ran their train to the BNSF interchange at Lookout once a week on Fridays, with a call time of 7:00 am. In addition, they would run their regular job out of McCloud to either Mount Shasta or Burney at mid-morning. We figured two trains on a shortline was too good to pass up.

Early foamers get the train. We got shots of the Lookout job first thing in the morning, and then doubled back to chase the Hill Job to Mount Shasta City. While MR was switching the Union Pacific interchange, we went up to Weed and picked up McCloud native Travis Berryman to spend the rest of the day with us. Travis was our guide as we chased the Hill Job back to McCloud.

After the Hill Job returned to the yard at McCloud for some additional switching before tie-up, we stopped in the railroad office to find out what was up with the Lookout train. Travis's cousin Brenda Johnson was the MR dispatcher. She called the Lookout job to find out when they thought they might be at Chippy Spur on the return trip. They said 4:30 would be about right.

Armed with this information, we drove east to Chippy Spur. It was where a McCloud Lumber Company logging spur once branched out into the woods. A few hundred feet of the spur were still in place, overgrown with trees. At exactly 4:30, the Lookout Job appeared. Engineer Malen Johnson was so pleased, after he stopped the train he exited the cab, pointed first at us, and then to his watch.

Designed to penetrate enemy defenses and hold forward positions, T.A.H. MK XXVII Morningstar Heavy Hardsuits had several features new and unique to their frame. Other than their distinctive appearance (reminiscent of the hardsuit's medieval namesake), the most obvious was the gigantic shield they carried. The Morningstar's armor was a [classified] composite that allowed them to withstand almost anything the Separatist Army shot, launched, or threw at them. Morningstars were also the first hardsuits to carry more than two Marines.

One of the most useful features were the boosters integrated into the hardsuit's legs. Although not capable of sustained flight or even hovering for more than a few seconds (only capable of short bursts), the afterburners made it possible for the heavy hardsuit to move quicker and breach Separatist defenses.

Very few Separatist soldiers saw Morningstar hardsuits up close. Fewer still lived to describe them.

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Walking down the Mercer Street

Been a long hot summer

Rain like daggers coming down on me

Got a feeling it's too late

But alone, together

Could be we might start it up all over again

Dream, dream, you're not too late

Sweet road to somewhere else

Listen to the radio

Are you calling

Listen to the radio

Are you calling

Three o'clock I'm on my way on the road to somewhere

Little clouds like wounds that blow away

Listening to the radio like a friend that guides me

Playing out every song we used to know

Dream, dream you're not too late

Sweet road to somewhere else

Listen to the radio

Are you calling

Listen to the radio

Are you calling

Bring it on

Come along

On the road to somewhere

Take our time

See the signs

On the road to somewhere

Today i was looking through my magazines and saw some shots of Africa and thought id love to do a dust treading safari shot somehow. I had seen a similar shot done by SuperPippo2010 (check out his stream!) and thought i should try something colourful as my stream has been dull and dark of recent.

Wish i could spend more time on it to really tweak the fine details and lighting but i have loads to do today. :(

Definitely enjoyed this as i let it take progress without forcing it, that way you get the best results! :)

The 12 metres (39 ft) main figure on the front of the memorial represents the archangel Michael, considered the "War god of Germans".

Monument to the Battle of the Nations - the structure has two floors, where on the first one is a crypt that is adorned by eight large statues of fallen warriors, each one next to smaller statues called the Guardians of the Dead, while on the second floor is the Hall of Fame that features four statues representing the four legendary historic qualities ascribed to the German people, those being bravery, faith, sacrifice, and fertility.

Visitors were walking on the level where allow them to view the outside scenery.

Tucking the gear up and spewing smoke from the wing-tip dummy missile generators, Hellenic Air Force General-Dynamics F-16C 'Fighting Falcon' 529 of the Greek “Zeus” Demo Team blasts away from Kleine-Brogel Air Base to display at the 'Spotters Dag'

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Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .

. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory

Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²

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Riddle of the day:

I am full of my answers,

but orphan of my clues.

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Je suis plein de mes réponses,

mais orphelin de mes définitions.

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This is a riddle for the Brain Food : Riddles group (Please read the Rules of the group).

If you think you have the answer to the riddle send me a message, please don't reveal all in a comment. Even if you don't play, you are welcome to leave comments.

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| . rectO-persO . | . E ≥ m.C² . | . co~errAnce . | . TiLt . |

As America takes pause to spend time with family and give thanks for the fact that we can over-eat in this country, Mr Hendricks and Mr Patchett would like to give thanks for all those who work to preserve our cultural heritage.

Thanks to all who bring important buildings like the Bosler House back to life. Thanks to those who restore furniture and early appliances. Thanks to those folks who keep “retro” fashions of all kinds in the public imagination. Thanks to those who keep the memory of orphan car brands alive and the people who still know how to keep them running. Thanks to the skillful Chinese craftsmen who made the models we photograph in order to take you on our nostalgic time travel adventures.

Thanks to all of you for the kind comments and views you have given us over the past couple of years.

Happy Thanksgiving from one24thscale!

This is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24 scale die-cast model cars and truck in front of a real background.

Crown Premiums 1935 Chevrolet Panel Truck - United Van Lines

Franklin Mint 1935 Auburn 851 Speedster

Danbury Mint 1936 Ford Deluxe Coupe

66206 passes through Attleborough with the 4Z58 Norwich to Peak Forest empty MMA wagons working. This additional working this week gave me an opportunity to get out the house and get some exercise in. Also a small win to catch this in some daylight for the first time in months!

I went on a road trip with my good friend and shooting buddy diapaulic and his daughter Olivia to explore the abandoned Alexian Brothers Novitiate outside of Gresham, Wisconsin.

Sitting on some 232 acres of land along the Red River in Shawano County, the Alexian Brothers Novitiate was originally built in 1939 by Mrs. Jennie Peters as a home for her invalid daughter, Jane, who died before the residence was completed. Following her late husband's request, Mrs. Peters had designed the structure to make it easily convertible into a facility for the Alexian Brothers. Mrs. Peters lived in the house until 1948, and in 1950 Brother Nicholas Barteleme arrived as the first Rector. In 1954 a $1,500,000 addition was added that connected to the original house. The Novitiate program was moved to Chicago in '68, and the estate was put up for sale in 1969. The remaining Brothers left in 1972 and a caretaker was put in charge to oversee the grounds and buildings. On January 1, 1974, a group of about 45 armed Native Americans calling themselves the Menominee Warrior Society stormed the abandoned Novitiate, seizing the property and taking the caretaker and his family hostage, saying that they would hold the facility until the Alexian Brothers turned it over to them. After 34 days of chanting "DEED or DEATH" they evacuated the building as part of an agreement that offered the deed to the Menominee Tribe for $1. Due to lack of funds they were forced to relinquish all ownership of the estate five months later. A fire gutted the three-story mansion in October of 1975 and it has been deserted ever since.

Ernie Barton

A cool way to view mine or anyone else's photostream is on fluidr.

in plataform to the pier, Sun Island Resort, Maldives

First Devon & Cornwall - 84 - Holywell Bay

Date taken: 19/07/15

Location: Manor Road, Newquay, Cornwall, UK

I did not have to work today and so I headed down to The Mall to return a few items that I purchased online. It was quiet there and I had a real nice time doing some browsing though I was ready to buy. Sephora is an evil store and I feel like they owe me some sort of "you can just come in and take what you want" deal for all of the money I have given them.

Newly re liveried Eurostar 3211 speeds through Stratford International with train 9074 1015 St Pancras to Marne La Vallee.

Always good to be home!

A service I'd yet to cover since it's arrival in September is the '5k' variant of the overhauled service 5 cross-city circular.

Service 5k is a Monday-Saturday only three journey service in one direction from Hull Interchange heading eastbound and following the usual 5 all the way until ASDA Kingswood, where it'll terminate.

The journeys run as: one in the peak circa 5:30pm, and the final two runs of the evening circa 10:50pm and 11:20pm.

Seen here just coming onto Bellfield Avenue is former Manchester Enviro 400, 19060.

Waste to Energy Plant, by Erick van Egeraat (2014).

Roskilde, Denmark.

© Roberto Conte (2016)

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I know this sounds terrible, but since around the time of this trip, Rohingya refugee boats were hugely on everyone's mind while I was living on the Thai-Burma border, I felt like I was getting a tiny taste of what it's like to be overcrowded and exposed to sun.

The former Arriva London DLA374 (LJ03 MSY) is seen in the northern part of Bolton about to pick up its school. Last allocated to Thornton Heath for the 198 and 250, it is well used to pottering around suburbia.

Sometimes I feel as if my guitars have thier own toy story going on. Showed my old Ovation some proper lovin' today and got the pictures to prove it.

Nikon D700

Nikkor Micro 60mm f/2.8D

1/40, f/3.5 ISO 800

So pleased to see the starling at a recent trip to Newquay in Cornwall.When first coming to Plymouth in the late seventies they were in abundance in the city and now it is a rare site to see one.

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Left to right: Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), Connor Hawke, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Zatanna, the Atom, Guy Gardner, Blue Devil

Blue Beetle: I want that blue Ninjago guy head for him and the fairy wings instead of the clear bee ones. If anyone has them for trade, I'm in the market.

Connor Hawke: Simple update: plain legs. That is all.

Black Canary: She's finished. Billy did a great job with the torso. CapeMadness on Bricklink was more than willing to cut a dark blue AR jacket. Thanks to them, I have this sweet Dinah. She deserves and will receive a solo pic.

Green Arrow: I changed the hips and added the sleeve thing. Do you guys like the hips?

Green Lantern: I made the hair the darker version.

Superman: I love the comic suit, but the print TLG made for MoS was just too steasy not to use. I figure when he's with the JLA he can wear this.

Batman: Big updates. I got the BrickWarriors vambraces and CitizenBrick legs for him. I think they really complete the look. Do you guys prefer this cape or the Ring Wraith cape for him? I'll do whichever you guys like. He's also sporting my patented two batarang technique and custom gas pellets made from long antenna ends.

Wonder Woman: I like Sting as her sword above traditional molds. I also prefer the Cap shield for her traditional outfit than any of those dark brown ones. When the new Cap shield comes, I'll use that, obviously.

Aquaman: I love TLG's Aquaman torso, but I just wasn't feeling that for him. I prefer this. Those are TinyTactical sleeve ends on his wrists. I take Aquaman seriously, so no jokes here, please. What gets me is when people say his powers only work underwater. You can be impaled on a trident anywhere. And stabbing people with a trident is badass.

Zatanna: Simple.

The Atom: Someone deserves credit for the body armor use, but I can't remember who. I came up with the cowl use a while ago and posted my intention to make the Atom with it, but could never follow through until now. Thank you, unsung hero. Sound off in the comments if you think it's you.

(EDIT: Julianosaurus came up with it)

Guy Gardner: Another secret someone gets torso credit here. Pretty simple custom once the jacket is figured out. Sporting an aluminum bat construct made of wine bottle and cylinder.

(EDIT: Shabazel is the one who used that torso first)

Blue Devil: I made this muscle tee from a Batman torso and have been using it a lot. Anyway, my Blue Devil here has a Harry Potter head and aside from that is pretty simple. I chose to make the more modern design of him.

New to the sadly missed Lancashire operator John Fishwick & Sons, Leyland, in 03/1987, numbered C14 and registered D276XCX, this DAF then moved south to MTL London. It is seen here in Blackpool, near Rigby Road Coach Park, on 15/07/1995. Rigby Road Coach Park was later re-named Sands Way Coach Park which in turn is now part of the Foxhall Village housing scheme. The DAF arrived at Fishwick's in a batch of four, C6,7,14/5, D274-7XCX, although the first one numerically was an SB2305DHS585 model of the DAF.

The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being a Boots Colourslide.

I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1995.

to a new Roid week -- but only one more pack of film left.

EXPLORED! Highest position: 147 on Thursday, July 9, 2009

Still busy, these next two weeks will probably be even worse...

Getting stronger, on Thursday they scheduled me the final job interview (already succesfully passed through two) for a really interesting opportunity.

I will be meeting the General Manager of the company. Sounds good!

The shot

Another sunrise from my April Tuscany trip. Taken some minutes before "Tuscany Sunrise @75mm". Tighter crop, less contrasty.

I'm in love with that place.

The Processing

Photoshop: (SINGLE EXPOSURE)

- Duplicated the background layer, switched to soft light mode and applied a gradient mask (sky only)

- Switched to LAB mode and applied two curves to improve contrast and tones

- Back to RGB, added a vibrance layer to boost up minor tones

- Used color balance tool to improve colors

- Duplicated the background layer, switched to linear add and applied a gradient mask (foreground only)

- Created an Overlay layer to adjust light

- Resized

- Run Noise Ninja to reduce Noise

- Sharpening (Smart Sharpen + more accurate)

- Framing and signature.

Take a look at it, LARGE on Black :

The best is yet to come, on Black

@ You all

Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!

I wish you all a splendid sunday and a marvellous week ahead.

I will be checking your streams out tonight.

"Stairway To Heaven" (Led Zeppelin)

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed

With a word she can get what she came for.

Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure

'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,

Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,

Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,

And my spirit is crying for leaving.

In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,

And the voices of those who stand looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,

Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune,

Then the piper will lead us to reason.

And a new day will dawn for those who stand long,

And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,

It's just a spring clean for the May queen.

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run

There's still time to change the road you're on.

And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,

The piper's calling you to join him,

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul.

There walks a lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold.

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last.

When all are one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

M74 - Lockerbie

There are so many different species of daises , this one is quite a large, flat one. It seemed to be welcoming the sun. It is such a happy flower. How could it ever be called a weed !

To the Daisy:

When, smitten by the morning ray,

I see thee rise alert and gay,

Then, chearful Flower! my spirits play

With kindred motion:

Wordsworth

HI ALL, To my AMAZEMENT!! I was able to get on the internet right now!! No clue why I haven’t been able to for more then a month. No clue how long I can stay on or if I will be able to get back on anytime soon.

My health is oretty lousy with allergies on top and pretty bad to. No covid I have been tested more then once. The guy in the next apartment seems likely to have covid, but refuses to be tested or mask up or isolate and the building doesn’t seem to be able to do anything. Guy next door says it isn’t his problem if anyone gets it they were ment to get it.

Anyway I have been stuck in my apartment due to health so I haven’t encountered him much so that is a good thing.

How are you all doing?? I hope well!! Enjoying life?? Doing anything fun this summer??

I better send this while I hopefully can.

Please take care and prayers for you all.

I hope you are all well. :)

Charles.

I do force this old body out for walks when i can and of course I need food so to get grocerys a very painful difficult thing to do. Ordering them to be dilivered is not affordable for me and not have internet accesse makes that not possible even if i could. But getting out some is good and thus these two pictures.

Hugs all. No clue when I'll be on again.

Charles.