Nicole, thanks for the filling us in on the photo. What a drag you missed the majority of the cranes. Would love to go to the crane festival some year. Wouldn't even mind seeing the alligator farm. Love animals of all types. well, except mosquitoes and ticks. :-) The elementary school at the end of our street "seeded" their playground just for the flocks of Canada Geese that fly through here. :-) It's an awesome site though to see bunches of geese populating the school's field and spilling out onto the sidewalk and street in the middle of a residential area. Some of the males stand in the middle of the street with their lady and try to stop cars from passing by holding out their wings. I don't know of any that have been hit, it's a street feeding three cul-de-sacs so not much traffic. But I have gotten out of my car to move the geese on so others could pass. We have the same problem with Egyptian Geese. Jodi-

Ash covered snow on Mt Etna in Sicily.

A sunset over downtown Manhattan taken from my DDs apartment window.

Gazania, I wish I could have done that at one time. I think it would be way cool. Jasdip, that is cool. It looks like a woodland scene. Nicole, thanks for the feeling of warmth. I needed that. LOL We don't have this ice right now. This was from a few years ago. It's actually really cold, but sunny today.