I hope he doesn't really think he looks like Elvis. On the Las Vegas Strip, New Years Eve day.

Buffalo statue near the pier at Avalon on Catalina Island which is off the coast of Southern California. Herds of Buffalo roam free on the island. Many years ago my best friend and I hiked the interior of the island. A large herd of Buffalo blocked our way to the camp site where we had registered to spend the night. We ended up getting terribly lost and a search party was sent out very late that night when rangers discovered we hadn't checked into the camp. We were found a little after midnight quite some distance from the camp. Because much of the island was on alert, a lot of people at the campsite were still up. When the ranger dropped us off at the camp there was a loud cheer and several people came up to us to see if we needed food or water. It was such an embarrassing situation. The next afternoon the same ranger saw us on the road back to Avalon. He got out of his truck and asked us to come take a look at something he had made for us that morning. It was a freshly painted 7ft sign with Black Jack Camp written on it. The ranger said he figured out why we got lost. The herd of buffalo were much taller at the shoulders than the tiny sign they had posted for Black Jack Camp. He dedicated it on the back to us. :-) Jodi-

Alisande...loved the post. Two years ago I sent an afghan to a friend of mine with a Happy 60th Birthday card. She thought I was losing it because it was her 80th birthday until she read the inside of the card. I had started it, ran out of yarn and never finished it. It occurred to me that I had made it bigger than it was suppose to be to begin with and if I ripped out the extra length, I would have enough yarn to finish. It took me twenty years to get around to it. I figured if I waited much longer I might be pressing my luck. Of course her color scheme has changed since twenty years ago, but she got a big laugh from it and it's the thought that counts (I think).

Church on Maui - taken February 13, 2007, on our way to Mt. Haleakala: Two pink flamingos, taken on the grounds of the Hyatt Regency on Maui, taken September 24, 2004: