WOW, fantastic pictures...This is one of the 1st places I check every day.....Love, love the photos.....

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ElizabethA.....Yes it's Monte Vista, looking West, the crane festival we went to in March. The moon is setting early in the morning. Thank you! Looking East, sunrise @ the crane festival....

I thought that your heirloom tomatoes were being a bit uppity, "stuck up", shall we say, maire cate? ... but it appears that they are not attached to/sitting on ... a wall ... after all. ___________________________ How some folks can get a Dollar's worth of charitable value for 60 - 50 cents. In our area, many of the grocery stores have a box by the exit door for contributions to go to the Food Bank. If you buy a dollar's worth of food, you choose what to buy, which might not be high priority for the Food Bank people, and you paid a Dollar.. A couple of times a year, several grocery stores let you give money at checkout to support a charity, so if you give them about 80 cents, the charity chooses what they need most and they get it wholesale ... and the store gets the credit for a charitable contribution. If you visit the charity and give them the 80 cents, the same deal applies ... and you get that precious receipt, so if you're in 25% tax bracket, your after-tax cost goes down 20 cents to 60 cents, and if you're in a higher bracket, even lower. --------------------------------------- Plus, in Canada, if you transfer stock or mutual funds to a charity, you get a receipt for the full amount ... and you avoid paying tax on the capital gain, which usually runs at regular tax rate on 50% of the gain. If you transfer a stock that cost you a bit over 4 Bucks, quite a few years ago, and now can be sold for over $100., the tax saving on that 50 bucks or so of taxable gain is substantial. (Dividends went from 10 - 12 cents to $5.76 per year - at low tax rate). Most charities don't want to get a large amount, then pass most of it on to a dozen or so others, but the local Community Foundation or United Way have done so for me. ole joyfuelled