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| March 17, 2005 |
Volume 1 - Number 66
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A Green Orchid for those who want to see Green on St. Patrick's
Day
TODAY'S PHOTOS
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(Click on the first photo and follow
NEXT on each page for slide show and I
discovered in my Outlook Express this is not working.
If it does not for you either, then simply go to ISSUE
66 You can see all the photos enlarged, plus read
the text.)
Following up on yesterday's promise to show you the
now "teen-age" Great Blue Herons, I wound
up creating a "slide show" of several different
views of the same birds and one of another smaller baby
from a nest that had only one bird hatch.
Always wanting to give you more, I thought I could simply
"throw" the pages together and three hours
later, I'm finally bringing it to you. Some people in
my community, who are subscribers, ask where I find
the time to do this everyday. For me it is a creative
expression which I need to juice me.
What are the creative expressions or passions that fuel
you?
Lastly, for today, I want to acknowledge my dear friend
Rebecca Collins, in Texas, for all that she taught me
in web design practicalities and the use of Dreamweaver,
the web site builder tool I use. She set up my very
first web pages and through what she taught me subsequently,
in managing my own, I was able to set up the structure
of today's ezine and "slide show." Becca's
main business is doing pet portraits. You can visit
her at www.artpaw.com.
(Note - on this last challenge, as noted above, I
did not consult Rebecca. At some point I will learn
why the slide show does not work in email, at least
mine)
I do periodically acknowledge Rebecca AND whom I haven't
acknowledged, and will, is the person who set me up
with her. Rebecca's friend and I were both in a workshop
in New York. When I mentioned thinking about doing a
web site, the friend approached me, gave me Becca's
name and number and also took mine. The friend passed
mine on to Rebecca, who was the one who followed up
with me.
How about you? Whom can you acknowledge today? Think
of at least one thing in your life of which you are
proud? How many levels can you go back for acknowledging
people and situations that brought you to this point?
Again, whom do you want to thank and will you do it?
Have fun with it.
READER COMMENTS ON YESTERDAY'S ISSUE - Issue
65
A few of you commented on the gray in yesteray's photo.
Part of it has to do with time of day and part of it,
I think, has to do with my camera which does not have
sophisticated lenses and filters, so I can't make adjustments,
nor would I know how to!
Linda Vining, who on occasion identifies herself as
LindaBlueHeron, wrote:
So enjoying the heron photos. We have areas of the river
here (the Kokosing River) that never freeze in winter,
and our herons stay year round. A lot of them leave,
but some always stay. In summer, they come back in droves
to the little lake that I paddle with my kayak -- all
kinds. All the Great Blues, and their white variants;
bitterns, green herons, Great White Egrets and Cattle
Egrets. It took me a long time to learn how to match
up beak and leg color, so I could tell the White-phase
Herons from the Great White Egrets. (We get very few
of the latter, but they do come.)
Anyway, it's nice to think you have a maternity island
for some of my summer friends.
You can find see Linda's art at Snowbird
Arts.
and Mary Gray, in her almost-daily response:
I didn't see the baby bird's head right away, but
I did spot it before I read your mention of it. (Yay
me.) The adult is definitely standing sentinel. Those
odd feathers on the shoulder even remind me of an epaulet,
as on a military uniform. Other than that, I like the
way the sticks of the nest scratch against the sky.
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it with friends, feel free to send them the link for
this issue - http://www.eteletours.com/issue66.html.
In many instances, the photos are not picked up if you
simply forward the issue.
Inspirationally,
Sheila
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