We live on a lake and yesterday our long time friends and neighbors celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at the gazebo on the lake. They asked me to photograph the event. I walked over a little bit before everyone got there and took several photos of the gazebo and birds on the lake. I think I'll post from that album this week. Jodi-

Yes, it was taken from my Mediterranean cruise! We passed right by it! Awesome. That's a little fishing village. They make their livelyhood from sword fishing there. Supposedly a great fishing site. And to the right, that rock houses a lighthouse!

On the ship my wife was teaching an engineering course, and I was along as a plus-one, with no duties or responsibilities, so that I referred to myself as "the slacker spouse", and adopted the motto "Just because you're doing nothing, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it well. However after each two day stop in port, I would need the next few days at sea to collate and rename the images from the two cameras, stitch together any panoramic shots, adjust the exposure, and straighten and crop the photos, and then select the best for the day, scale them down, and upload them (over a painfully slow internet connection) to the blog I was writing, and then caption the images and paste them into the text or into a gallery for the day. I was often up until 2:00 AM. As the trip progressed and the time at sea between ports lessened, I got further and further behind, and once back on land the blog photo galleries languished until I started posting here over the summer, and saw Jodi's Panama Canal photos and finally got the kick-in-the-butt to finish working on the blog photos.

One day at the office, it rained so hard that ... . This picture is not photoshopped or altered in any way. It was taken at a nature center that had a large fish tank in the center of the room. You could look through it and occasionaly, a few fish would come out of their cover and lazily swim by. The effect was erie. The give-away is the flash glare of the side of the tank in the upper right of the photo.