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DailyPhotos > popular today > December 23, 09 Do cookies have feelings?
DailyPhotos > popular today > Maeve insists she isn't moving from this spot until Santa comes down that chimney on Christmas Eve. Actually, I looked over, saw her sitting there, grabbed the camera and snapped the shot. Somehow, I like the first story better. :-) (December 22, 2009) "When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness." ~~ Bob Hope
DailyPhotos > popular today > 12/23/09 Pure as the snow.
DailyPhotos > popular today > 12.23.09 = Gracie and I set out for a walk the other day in the city. It was so quiet and peaceful. There was no hustle or bustle, just a few joggers and fellow dog walkers. I just loved how the trees seemed to hold hands over the pathway. It’s like they have been growing and growing just tall enough to reach each other. How nice of them to grow together now and shelter our way. “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
DailyPhotos > popular today > December 23, 2009 - "Garden Key And Ft. Jefferson" This is pretty much the extend of the land surrounding Ft. Jefferson. More about the forts use during the Civil War will follow with posts after Christmas. For those interesting in a birds eye view of the fort go to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Fort-Jefferson_Dry-Tortugas.jpg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In late December 1824 and early January 1825, about five years after Spain sold Florida to the United States for $5 million, U.S. Navy Commodore David Porter inspected the Dry Tortugas islands. He was on the lookout for a site for a naval station that would help suppress piracy in the Caribbean. Unimpressed with what he saw, he notified the Secretary of the Navy that the Dry Tortugas were unfit for any kind of naval establishment. He reported that they consist of small sand islands a little above the surface of the ocean, have no fresh water, scarcely enough land to place a fortification, and in any case are probably not solid enough to bear one. In May 1829, Commodore John Rodgers stopped at the Dry Tortugas to evaluate the anchorage. Contrary to Commodore Porter's experience, Rogers was delighted with what he found. The Dry Tortugas, he reported, consisted of 11 small keys and surrounding reefs and banks, over which the sea broke. There was an outer and an inner harbor. The former afforded a safe anchorage at all seasons, and was large enough to let a large number of ships ride at anchor. Of more importance, the inner harbor combined a sufficient depth of water for ships-of-the-line, with a narrow entrance of not more than 120 yards. Rogers said that if a hostile power should occupy the Dry Tortugas, United States shipping in the Gulf would be in deadly peril, and "nothing but absolute naval superiority" could prevail. However, if occupied and fortified by the U.S., the Dry Tortugas would constitute the "advance post" for a defense of the Gulf Coast. A series of engineering studies and bureaucratic delays consumed the next 17 years, but the construction of Fort Jefferson (named after the third President, Thomas Jefferson) was finally begun on Garden Key in 1846. The new fort would be built so that the existing Garden Key lighthouse and the lighthouse keeper's cottage would be contained within the walls of the fort. The lighthouse would continue to serve a vital function in guiding ships through the waters of the Dry Tortugas Islands until the current metal light tower was installed atop an adjacent wall of the fort in 1876. The original brick lighthouse tower was taken down in 1877."
DailyPhotos > popular today > Djazz in the Snow - Dec 22 2009 Djazz loves the snow... if it was up to him he would stay out all day. Had some long exposure shots of traffic today, bit none of them were any good... so Djazz makes the dailies again.
DailyPhotos > popular today > This is sunset at the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Driving the Great Ocean Road has been on my todo list for over 20 years and the raw, untouched beauty more than lived up to my expectations. The pile of rock towards the middle of the frame is the "apostle" which fell down in 2005 and I think it's the perfect example of the awesome power at work in this part of the world.
DailyPhotos > popular today > December 23, 2009 ~DARK-EYED JUNCO~ MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU, SMUGMUGGERS! Thank you for all the photo help, suggestions, encouragement and most of all for your cyber friendships...I feel I know you, somehow. What a caring, TALENTED bunch of great people to be associated with! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season surrounded by those who mean the most to you! ~Kim~ Dark-eyed Junco Christmas Card Please view this card in 3x to appreciate the detail. This is a composite of the same photo that I painstakingly created in Pages (on my Mac ) to create the two-sided card. Lining up the tree branch from the background photo to the full resolution photo in the front proved to be daunting, as it moved the bird too low on the page to center it above the writing. Then I had to turn around and re-create it with the message on top and the photo on the bottom so I could print them! Nope, they wouldn't copy and paste...somehow they wouldn't line up that way. So after some creative tinkering between two programs, I finally accomplished the task. (Anyone have a good program recommendation that creates this kind of artwork more precisely? ) With so many "rave reviews" and suggestions of a Christmas card of this bird last winter, here is his new look and his moment of fame for 2009. ~Kim~
DailyPhotos > popular today > 12.23.2009 I basically processed this photo the same way I did my daily from 12.21, but this time I added a blue tone to give it more of a cold feel. Hopefully everyone is prepared for a happy holiday and wonderful new year!!
December 23, 09

Do cookies have feelings?
> December 23, 09 Do cookies have feelings?
December 23, 09

Do cookies have feelings?
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