Red Rock open space CO form Saturdays hike....the trees have lost their leaves here.

"dianamo, your dolls are amazing. I once watched a documentary about dolls. A grandmother so grieved the loss of her grandson after the divorce of her son and daughter-in-law, the mother taking the child miles out of state, that she commissioned a doll in the exact likeness of her grandson. That way she could still have him with her. I wasn't sure what to make of it, except to each his own. If it makes her happy, I can't seem the harm. " I saw that documentary, too. Through the grapevine on a doll board I belong to, I have heard that the lady in that documentary now makes reborn dolls herself. And is very good at it! And the young girl that made the doll to look like that womans grandson got a lot of orders for dolls that she wasn't able to fullfil. She ended up going bankrupt and still owes a lot of money people put as downpayments on dolls she promised to make.

Jean, I've seen those slugs in the PNW. At first I thought they were dog leavings as they were scattered over a grassy area. I was shocked to find out they were slugs. Amazingly big. Here's my picture...Great Barrier Reef in Australia. I snorkeled, and Steve Irwin was killed there only a few months after we were there. If I had realized how dangerous it was, I might have stayed on the boat!!!

Annie, My brother and I were in Prague years ago, and were in the square in front of that clock. He handed me his camera saying he was having trouble lining up the shot of the clock through the viewfinder with his glasses on, asking if I could take the picture. I took the camera, looked through the viewfinder, and <click> took the picture. At which point the camera started rewinding because it had reached the end of the roll. My brother then said, "No I meant when the clock stares ringing, which was less than a minute away, and the animated figures start coming out and moving around. " I think we didn't have another roll of film with us, and so I had completely missed the shot he wanted.