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[ConsAreLiars]

So I finally got around to scanning the last few rolls of film. This is an image I found while at our favorite winter beach getaway last year.

[soup]

1. amazingly therapeutic

My blood pressure just dropped 10 points.

If you don't mind, I'd like to replace my seagull desktop background with your photo - and continue the calming therapy session.

[ConsAreLiars]

3. Feel free to use it. I've put a 1024X768 pixel version up at

http://xs223.xs.to/xs223/08054/moclips-winter06-0011-3t-1024x768539.jpg

It is cropped to fit the most monitor common display size and
is less compress (about 1/2 MB).  If another size would be
better for you, let me know.

Glad you find it pleasing.  Calm is hard to find these fays.

[soup]

7. Oh, thank you, ConsAreLiars!

When I got up yesterday and read that the lunkheads had managed to pass Amendment 1 (property tax 'relief'), I came in here to escape the stupid, greedy, short-sightedness of my fellow FloriDUHians. The first post I saw was yours, and I lost myself in your photo.

You took me back to icy mountain streams on a hot summer day, and boy, did I need that. Thanks again. :hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Thank you, that is very calming.

I'm a little worked up today, too. I see many days of hanging out in the PhotoGroup ONLY in my future. I just can't bear politics right now.

[ConsAreLiars]

5. SO is a bit stressed after the move, no job yet, yada yada, and we had become

accustomed to taking a few days during the winter to enjoy the Olympic Peninsula coast. This sort of thing. Lucy - that's the dog - had become a bit chunky last winter, but has since trimmed back to her usual fit form. New clerk at the pet food store did the usual "Wow-what-a-great-dog" routine (they rarely say "What-a-repulsive-beast") but was surprised to learn her age (70 in human years), and she is a living testimonial to the value of an appropriate organic diet. And, in her own love of being in the instant, she gets Zen Master karma points.

[Maestro]

4. Lovely

Although maybe this is the kid in me, but it makes me want to grab those smooth, flat rocks and do some rock skipping across the water. ;)

[ConsAreLiars]

6. There is a certain "seeing without labeling" in photography.

Just being there. The moment. Glad you felt that.

I've watched your photos evolve from "here's a bird" (far better than I ever got, but still with the labeling reaction) to "here's a real unique living being." My second-born has been able to do the same thing with plants and his flower pix far exceed anything I have done, despite many more years of trying. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/50722509@N00/

Here's the locale for that photo:

[Maestro]

8. Gorgeous

I tell you what. You take me there and you can do landscapes while I find birds. :thumbsup: Thanks for the comment about my birdies too. :hi: