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Wedding, women, work and water fellas. I have been doing a lot of canoeing lately, and that's where I take most of my pictures (although most of the wildlife and scenery does not get captured)... but work is underway full swing as well, and i didn't want you all to think that i'm just paddling around idly.

I decided not to take my camera along when Dave and I went for a paddle in the canoe today..... and so, naturally, there were tons of photo ops that I missed... lots of wildlife and great puffy clouds and huge fish jumping clear out of the water (which I would never have captured on camera!) and a terrific junk pile. Tons of interesting stuff and instead all I have are a couple of shots of the canoe in its cozy new home. Got to name "the canoe" so I can stop referring to it so impersonally. We considered The Defatigible or The DreadSome or perhaps The Trepid.... you Horatio Hornblower fans will get this. AND today during said paddle, I opted also to leave my phone behind... and I missed a very exciting phone call from Mar!!! (link to her blog will [eventually] get you to her news...=0) I went right out and bought a waterproof case for my phone so that that will not happen again!!!

Hey, happy birthday to meeeeee! I've been hinting/begging/cajoling for five or six years for my very own canoe.... and Dave finally decided to humor me. We've been out twice and Dave is having the notfun job of rigging up a good place to store it. I'm eager for some better pictures of it in idyllic places and exotic climes.... but, so far the best i've done are these. i turned the car one upsidedown so you could see the canoe rightsideup.

on the way to ashland we saw some pretty, and pretty sad vistas. gene didn't go (work!!!!) so we got the pleasure of Kathy's company.... how fun! mar played the good daughter and tried her best to use up dad's cell minutes before they expired... thanks, ben!

sigh... one of these days i'm going to have to catch my breath and post an interesting post

Such a pretty day at sunrise, that we didn't even mind the 'squitos.... much! Wish you could have come with us, Ad!