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Ack! Sorry for the super-stretch. Errm, can anyone resize it for me? I can't at work atm.
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We exist to serve.

I wanted to see it better anyway. It's spectacular!
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Some more Rebecca sunset and winter storm goodness:

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One of America's castles, built between 740 and 1040 CE.

The mountains in the first picture are visible from my work window and if anyone has see the movie Appaloosa they are also in that movie.

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And a Christmas ball at work...I took it because I was playing around.

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All pictures taken with same camera.
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not much of a fauna or flora photographer, here is a link to my good friend Andy Routh's site.

Many years ago he an I were in a band together, playing punk music before we realised what it was

http://andrewrouth.org/home.html
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A slide show from our Christmas walk in Big Basin, including the Mother and Father of the Forest (you'll know them when you see them):

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That looks amazing!
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Gorgeous, Voronwë! Especially the Mother and Father—I'd have known them without the signs, I think!

And what a lovely day you had for your walk. :hug:
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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My, those trees are HUGE. :shock:
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Yup. :)
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Wonderful Voronwë! I was there about a week earlier and the Redwoods on the coast and the Sequoia's in the Sierra's always make me think of Tolkien and the ents. Much like star gazing they remind me how insignificant we are in the scheme of time. I hope you and everyone here had a wonderful holidays.
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What a nice way to celebrate x'mas, or any day, for that matter. :)
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I snapped this yesterday for Project 365, then today realized it might be appreciated here. Click thumbnail for the bigger picture. ;)

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Ooooh, you're on flickr. :) Contact request awaiting.

And yes, very nice pic.
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cemthinae wrote:I snapped this yesterday for Project 365, then today realized it might be appreciated here. Click thumbnail for the bigger picture. ;)

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Fantastic pic. Looks like a fractal.

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All of my nieces and nephews at my godson/nephew Nicholas's Medical School graduation. Now a neurosurgical resident at University of Arizona, Tucson.
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Some pics from Hawaii:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... 751&ref=nf
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Wow! That looks so neat!

Here are a few pics from my hike yesterday (and one from the salamander hike last night):

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... c8f54ed01c

(There are two videos, as well, if you are on FB.)
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Very nice!
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Lovey pics, both of you. :)
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