Picture Gallery

1. was a photo I took and edited of my son...
2. Find me in the photo...lol (Called Busweiser induced creativity! lol)
3. A photo of my niece that I edited.
4. Would have been a better photo if I hadn't been driving while taking the photo and a bug hadn't planted itself right in the middle of my windshield..(whoops, wasn't the windsheild, wrong pic..was the passenger window).which transplanted into the middle of the sun after the photo...LOL
5. A view from my deer stand one morning early. I loved the way the clouds were rolling in over the top of the mountain.
6. A view from my deer stand late on evening...lol

wow, great new pictures everyone.

nimh, you need to eat more, you're too thin.

I like both photos, nimh, but then I've always liked photos of you.

MMS, nifty collage thing there.

Wilso, very cool, especially love the palm tree one. Sort of reminds me of an old photo of mine that I once had blown up to 11 x 14.. it was of a pond with palm tree reflections all twisty because of the wind that day. But your photo has such beautiful colors and also works as an abstract, er, without the foot. The foot adds charm though.

shivers, that picture of your niece is great.

I'll bet she loved it too.

Thanks Osso.. and Shewolf You're too sweet..


And thanks CJ. Whats the thing about yourself that you like least? I gotta remember, just so I can rag you about it next time you post a pic. You know, just to be as polite as you are.

99 % of the population has the opposite problem, nimh. I didn't see an insult
there, but if you're that sensitive, I apologize. But go ahead, rag about me,
my confidence level obviously surpasses yours.

Thanks...her momma loved it. I love editing photos...sometimes I get them right, sometimes..its to the recycle bin they go...lol

I've put together some movies of baseball pics, I would love to load in my photobucket site, but a 8 minute film takes forever to load on dail-up. lol



Wilso.....I didn't notice the foot in that great pic...I had to go back and look at it. LOL I wish I was sitting on a beach like that right now...lol

I think tommorrow I'm going to take some pictures of the area I live in.....see what I get....

CJ, my husband and I have talked about this a lot, he's a tall thin guy too, and I was surprised by how strongly he reacted to those kinds of "you gotta eat more" sorts of comments. Many women would LOVE to be told such a thing! It's even said as an outright, intended compliment to women from women.

Really different for guys, though. I think it might be partly an intracultural male thing, like men/boys who are thin are bullied/ teased by men/boys who aren't, with women being largely left out of that loop and not really aware of it. And many of us (women) think the tall thin look is nice -- I do. But since it first came up with my husband (he had to explain it to me), I've seen plenty about it, it's quite common for men to feel mocked/ insulted by being called thin. 98 pound weakling and sand kicked in his face and all that.

Well, thats the most back-handed apology I've heard made in a few months... "I apologize, I didnt know that you were so much weaker than me".

Wonder if you also wouldnt see the insult in "you need to eat less, you're too fat", as a one-liner comment to someone posting his pic.

I haven't seen any other people who posted their pic here being told they look wrong, but then it is apparently "slam-nimh month".

I thought it was just me.

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Seeing those photos of Nimh explains, in part, a very funny reaction I had to someone today.

There's a rather lovely, charming, totally delightful young man who worked with us for about a year, DD. He's marvellous in many ways - well-travelled, very involved in his world, wants to make a difference and is making a difference, and cute. He left our office about a 1.5 years ago - went to work out west while completing his theological studies. (ok, a lengthy set-up is isn progress)

DD sat down across from me at lunch today and I simply rocketed out of my chair with joy. Hugged him, we both talked madly, I couldn't stop grinning.

and now I realize he looks like Nimh and Tony Blair - and the Nimhness (in life approach and cute) was, in part, what made me happy to see DD again.

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hmmm, we did talk about Holland briefly. Musta been some Nimh in the Tranna air today.

Many of you don't, believe me.

For example, in a misguided attempt to "help" me, someone that I had really cared for told me just a few months ago that I should beef up because most women don't like "extremes" like the way I'm thin. And thank you, ma'am.

(I'd never particularly liked my bod, but most of the time I hadnt actually worried too much about it either; since then, I pretty much feel ugly. And this is a bad place for it, because the tall & thin type is common enough in Holland, but not here; and men here seem as obsessed with working out as women are with slimming. I stick out like a sore thumb.)

p@@p

he posted before I could edit that a outta there

Sorry. What about, if you delete your last post, then I'll delete mine, and then you can edit yours after all...

oh wait <frowns>





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pffffft

Yer still cute, in yer own Tony Blair way.

(and I do talk like that ... sometimes ... depends on who I've been talking to IRL)

Lovely Bean!!

I wonder if I can get an editing tool and sort of smudge it out? (The foot I mean).

It seems that feet are a recurring problem.

The foot's good - two would be even better.

Seriously.

I've got a small series of photos I started taking nearly 30 years ago, of my feet in different places. It started when I followed a hiking trail my companions had tired of, and found a wonderful little waterfall. I lay down on a big rock, and took a photo of the waterfall behind my feet in my hikers 0 I wanted evidence that I'd been there. Years later, on a trip to Mount Desert Island, my friends didn't want to climb to the top of the Mount to watch the sunrise ... so I climbed up, watched the sun rise, and then lay down and took a photo of my boots framing the height marker. and on and on. They make very special souvenirs - and as a photo theme, they can be very striking.



other people have had the same idea






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mmmmmmmm - so in summary - I like your foot!


(edit - I like the feet!)

I like the feet, especially in wilso's shots at the beach (and beth's on the dock). Something about vacation and being barefoot..... sand between one's toes....