OMG it's Friday already ... well it snowed out here on the Isle of Long and it  looks so peaceful and beautiful .. I will be getting out later to take some pics although the best of it has melted off the trees .. I will wander into our woods here. I still have no car so I have to use the 'shoe leather express' as my dad would say My back is still not right so I have to very mindfull of where I place my feet !!    I spent the day at my moms yesterday and it was really nice - she made me another of my favorite dinners - meatloaf with a hard boiled egg in the middle and smashed potatos and asparagus .. and I had two helpings and had to take a nap ! LOL -nothing like being spoiled by mommy.   Its interesting - my mom and I are much alike - we come from generations of very strong willed and interesting women, because we are so alike - we butted heads much of the time when I was young. As they say -those in your life are a reflection of the very things you need to work on. When I finally understood that and also understood that forgiveness is a brilliant thing .. our relationship totally changed. I am so happy because we are such good partners and friends and she really has been mothering me lately and you know it feels really good .. because it seems one of my strongest callings this lifetime is to be the earth mother of so many ... teenagers, nieces, nephews, friends, indigos.and of course feral and domestic cats and my puppy etc... and sometime I need some good mothering. What is neat is that my mom is very devoted to her Rosaries and the Blessed Mother and also St Francis of Assisi.. and often sees him during meditation and prayer. I thnk thats neat that my mom has the ability to welcome deities in like that and be so calm about it. 

My mom also has her crosses that I help her to bear .. and I don't mind at all. My dad is just slowing down now at an alarming pace and she really is for all intents and purposes his caretaker at times .. he keeps going but she picks up the slack and I am always praying that they both have their health and strength. Its hard to believe that they will be married 50 years this year - and I am hoping my brother cooperates with me - because I would love to have a little something and redo their marriage vows.. along with my Ministry teacher who would love to help me with it also.

SO life has been pretty amazing for me lately .. all the really tough things I had been going through all served as lessons to set me up for the next phase of my life and as I have said before ..I am watching the people around me going through the same things, upheaval, reverses, speed ups, complete chaos and dramatic change and it all serves them very well. After the roughly 8 years of transition I have been traveling through I really feel I am coming 'Into my own' and 'Who I Am' and along with that- knowing that  I choose to be happy - and happy I am and shall be.

Ministerial Narcisim 101 ( lol )

I have a great friend whos' mom always said to her that being a movie star or glamour queen was all hair and make up .. I would add to that also having a good photographer and great photo editing software also helps :) No lumps no warts -no zits - no bumps - seemingly perfect skin ... Well I recently downloaded Picasa which is free and does wonderful stuff - and invested in Photoshop since I am getting serious with my photography and have been experimenting on myself. I chose myself because - one I am available and two I never take pictures of myself.. because ' I hate the way I look' .. and really is there ever any one of that is ever happy how they look in pictures... unless you are Catherine Zeta Jones I would say.. maybe not lol.. but I have been having fun with self portraits and about to bore you all to  death with them now. I just smiled and really mugged for the camera - which I held myself and used things I had around the house - my daughters feather boa.. scarves .. etc.. and they came out nice - I had a lot of fun and now my friends are asking me to do them .. its all learning and artistry and creativity so it makes my heart sing ...

Had enough ???    I have dozens more ... just kidding!!                         ( not really -  I do lololol )............... have a good one .. xoxooxoxoxo         PS It's Snowing whee !!

Almost a week gone by - where does the time go ....I have been busy doing some genealogy and also playing with my photo programs. The genealogy was one of those things I was definately led to .. I was sitting playing around with pictures and it was very late last friday night - and to be honest I am really surprised I was still up. Well around midnight I got the 'urge' to look into my mothers' side of the family again. My mom makes jokes that her side of the family is from the cabbage patch because there are a few dead ends .. her grandfather was adopted .. I sort of have that one figured out - found some info on the census' that point to my great grandfather having been the son of his parents younger daughter. He was raised by her parents by who were really his grandparents. I remember him a little bit - he was a huge man with red hair ..By the time I got to know him .. he wasn't too well and he passed when I was about 5 years old. He wasn't really german like his parents - his mother was .. but his father was Irish .. and thats where he got the red hair from .. and that has been passed down through the generations - we all of us woman have red highlights in our hair.

Now the other side that I was stuck on was my great grandmother who was Irish. There had been discussions that she was an orphan - and although we had her parents names from death records ( I know morbid but solid proof of parentage ) We knew nothing about her parents .. except their names and that they were from Ireland. I logged onto my Ancestry account and did a search for my great grandfathers name .. and I saw that someone else has been researching the same line and actually got back a generation further and had not only listed my greant grandmother but also all her siblings.. of which we only knew a few. He also listed my great grandfather and great grandmothers' children .. but did not have much information on them. Of course I wrote to him right away and got a very prompt reply. I had told him that my mom felt my great grandmother was an orphan and he said - you are correct. Your great grandmothers mother died in childbirth leaving her husband with 8 children to raise alone . Turns out he met a woman who did not want the children so he placed them all in an orphanage.. He told me that through the years when one child was 18 and left they would help one of the siblings out .. until they were all out.

We don't know much about my great grandmothers' early life. We know the children they had .. my grandfather being one of them. Later on in their lives they moved out to Medford Long Island  where they had a 10 acre farm. They raised everything they needed to live and what they did not raise they bartered for with the other neighborhood farmers. What is very interesting to me as a history buff .. is that they were right next to the Experimental farm run by the Fullerton family, who ran it for the Long Island Railroad. There have been a few books written by various family members about that farm One is named  'The Blessed Isle'.What I like about the books is that they give us a glimpse of how it was out there back then..
Mom remembers going over there for milk and eggs. She said the house had a beautiful rose trellis and they also had bamboo growing in the yard .. supposedly this was the first bamboo that grew on the island. The Experimental Farm is also long gone ..but you can park by where it was located and you can see the bamboo still standing. My mother and her brother and sister and many of the family loved it out there and used to spend a lot of time on that farm. My mom tells many stories .. there was no indoor plumbing you either used a chamber pot or went to the outhouse . In the cold weather one potbellied stove heated the whole house and you stayed under the feather tick that my great grandmother had made to stay warm. My mom said if you had to go to the bathroom you held it until morning because it was too cold and creepy to go outside..My great grandmother used everything .. nothing was wasted .. she made all her own linens and blankets.. she saved her old stockings and rags and braided her own oval rugs to lay on the floors. My mom said they were dirt poor but the way they lived it never showed. They raised the animals they ate and they canned and preserved food. They did not have electricity they had Oil lamps and a wood stove that she cooked everything on and baked in. They had to pump the water as there was no running water . They had rain barrels that collected  the rain and my mom said they washed their hair with that. She told me that they even used to shower in the rain .. when it started to rain they grabbed the soap and ran outside in their bathing suits.. LOL .. I am not kidding .. and they loved it. Mom said that their uncles would come out and her mother and dad would go to the poolhall to have a few beers ..My mom said that they would get their PJ's on and their uncle would load them into his car and bring them to the poolroom, much to the annoyance of her parents ! lol.

My great grandmother passed in 1950 in a nursing home in patchogue.. and her husband stayed on the farm .. the family still visited him. My mom used to have him stay at her house. As he got older I guess he got forgetful , the first time he burned up the kitchen , the second time the house burnt to the ground. My mom told me they all loved the farm so much and they tried to buy it, but at the time no one had the money. Eventually my great grandfather also had to be put in a nursing home where he passed. The house burned down completely.. there was nothing left but the foundation. When I was a young child my parents would take me and my brother on sundays back to the location of where the house was and we would pick blueberries and play on the property. I wish I remembered more of my times there. I recall walking along the railroad tracks and picking the berries and looking around. My mom used to relive her happy memories, she would stand near the foundation and point out the house to us and tell us all about where everything was located. It always made me kind of sad to watch her reminisce because I know she missed it something awful and had she had the money she would have made it our home and our farm .. but it was not meant to be.

The years pass and I love to listen to my mom talk about the farm and especially my great grandmother. She was a very tall and well built woman. My mom said you could tell that she must have really been beautiful when she was young. She had beautiful snow white hair and my mom said she had very big feet and had to wear mens shoes, you could tell her feet pained her but she never complained about anything, she was accepting of her lot in life and she just made the best of everything she had. Thinking about it all.. it really was not all that long ago. They lived there from the late 1920's all the way to almost the end of the 50's. I cannot get over that they had no electricity and no running water and no heat .. none of the luxuries that we take so for granted and try to imagine how it would be to live like that again. Mom told me that Great Grandma spent her nights crocheting by the light of the oil lamp .. after working all day since sun up she still had the energy to create beautiful doilies and table clothes and blankets. I find such charm in the whole idea of it all... it's probably in my blood and that is why its a comfortable thought to live that way.

So now I have discovered a cousin who is researching the same family lines and its so exciting to me. I will find out more about the great grandmother that I never knew and so might my mom as there is a neice of my great grandmothers who is turning 90 who spent a lot of time at the farm and no doubt has some wonderful memories to share with my mom.. its all so wonderful. I felt very led to this information .. when doing genealogy research it really pays to have a strong intuitive nature. You never know where your gut feelings may lead you . In this case it led me to some very interesting possibilites of learning information that fills in the gaps we do not know about Anna's life.. I so look forward to learning all I can about all my ancestors.. because who they were - adds up to parts of who I am

I found two pictures from Medford at about that time .. the first is the railroad station, the second is the Experimental farm in Medford. I am hoping that someone, somewhere has some pictures of the farm.

Skating ....

Way back when I was a youngster .. and well, I still am in my mind although my body does protest much .. I used to love skating and skiing.. especially ice skating...now I have a nagging back and hip ( thats from horseriding thats another story )  that  makes it a bit dangerous to keep doing either thing .. but I do remember so well the sense and feeling of complete freedom you feel as you soar across the ice - seemingly effortlessly and as graceful as a swan I skated since I was a young girl when the bay froze here and my dad put my skates on and gave me a push and it was do or die ! Actually it was the best way to learn. Here on the island when I was a youngster the lakes used to freeze every year  - we had a nice big lake, a pond, sometimes the bay .. a marsh at the marina .. and the river used to also freeze ..One year it was so cold my brother I flooded the back yard and skated on that for weeks .. it was great !!!  A day of skating only cost you the walk or the bike ride to get there. I would spend the whole day skating ... resting then skating again .. it was great ,who thought about food .. who thought about boys . who thought about anything but skating .. I DO miss it. When I got older I started to go skiing .. which I was naturally good at and I first went at Stratton Mountain in Vermont .. the views up top were like nothing I had ever seen in my life before ..I had a big build and an athletic body, powerful legs and I could ski all day and not tire .. but I never liked skiing as much as skating .. I never felt like the graceful swan on the skis the way I did on skates and I didn't like having to wear all the constrictive clothing. I didn't like the lift lines or the lifts .. I hated the T-bar lifts.. and it was very expensive also. When I got pregnant with my daughter I stopped skiing .. a year later after surgery I gave it up all together. I still skated once in a while in the rinks here with my daughter .. but its not the same as skating outdoors with the wind in your hair and the sun on your face.. where its you and the elements and you are not very crowded .. its also easier to skate on rough ice .. to me anyway .. I never quite got used to the slickness of the rink ice .. and also the little hockey boys that whiz by and also whiz into you !Its so damn crowded at the rink.. So I rarely go .. For a few years my daughter took lessons from her friends Aunt Jerri who had been a skater in the 50's .. she was eccentric and looked like a page out of an early 60's hairdo magazine .. she had that make up and the beehive all those years later ! She was a taskmaster and honestly, I think she was just too much for my daughter .. so she didn't keep going .. she was as naturally talented as me - and I know she may have been great because she has a lovely petite, slender build .. LOL not my zaftig, athletic one ! ( I still have the zaftig thing, my atheleticism has been lost to surgeries and weight gain.. luckily I can still outwalk most people  ) 

So I have loved through the years watching the ice skating portion of the olympics.. and having skated.. I know how much work and muscle and discipline goes into what they do and I get goosebumps every time I watch and it brings all the memories back and sort of a sadness also of why is it some people age a bit more gracefully and are able to still skate well into their 70's and here I am having loved it and had a passion for it - and due to injuries and surgeries.. can no longer do it .. I watch with tears in my eyes because I miss it so ...I love watching the girls ... they are amazing .. so beautiful .. hell they even fall beautiful ! To be half as graceful as they are .. imagine it !! I also marvel at how far techinique wise they have come .. when I was growing up Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill were the champions .. and they were truly marvelous - but in my eyes, the youngsters nowadays, some of them are simply amazing.. I remember that girl from France a few Olympics back who did the back flip in her routine .. that was about the time my daughter was skating. I took her to Nassau Coliseum to see the Olympic stars on ice .. and that girl was there .. it was simply incredible that she was able to do that !..Yes  I know it was not beautiful - but it was really cool !!

I felt awful when Sasha Cohen fell twice .. and damn AOL for having the results ahead of time online ...when I wanted to just sit and watch it like I was there in the stands lol .. but you know .. to me .. all those girls are champions .. every one. They are such a great example of how having a passion for something and being dedicated to it shows once they are out there on the ice.. I am not sure people realize just how much they sacrifice to be there ... I was especially touched last night by the first skater ever to represent Turkey - they told the story of how there are only two skating rinks in all of Turkey so her parents who were older when they had her, once they realized her gift - moved to Canada .. so she could learn and practice .. and how her father worked two jobs so she could skate . And then watching how beautiful she was on the ice .. truly magical..:)

In my mind and imagination... I can still do it ..I can still imagine the wind in my hair and blowing against my face .. feeling like I am flying .. feeling so amazingly free and yes graceful and beautiful. I have wonderful memories of skating with my daughters father way back when and how much fun it was - and that I was such a better skater and when we would race he would cheat to win ! LOL... I can imagine and remember it all ... and who knows... if the river ever freezes again .. or the lakes or the bay .. I just might unearth my skates and go slower and steadier ..and freer than ever !!! xoxxoxoxoxo

The Colors of Winter...

This time of year the world where I live can look a little gray .. there are not many leaves .. no flowers .. so finding color in our surroundings here can be a bit of a challenge. But sometimes you find those colors when you are not even looking for them .. and the colors are just beautiful ..and very special indeed.

Nothing makes me happier lately than taking pictures of everything I come across .. I upgraded my subscription so I could post to my hearts content ! lol .. SO now you are stuck with more pictures

I came across something I never knew existed until yesterday .. it is the Upton Preserve .. in the beginning of the last century during WWI .. land in Brookhaven town was designated to be a training camp for recruits. My Grandfather served time and was trained there. My Great Uncle who built the Big Duck, was commisioned to build some of the barracks for the camp that trained thousands of soldiers. At one time famous tunesmith Irving Berlin even trained there and wrote a song called Oh I Hate To Get Up in the Morning ....well the wars have come and gone and now most of Camp Upton is Brookhaven National Lab.. they have funded the Upton Preserve which is behind the lab and also in the Pine Barrens. It is truly a beautiful spot and I was happy to find it. I will be heading back in the warm months when everything is in full bloom.

Then we went off the Peconic River which is truly one of the most magnificant spots out here. I love the way the water moves.. the Peconic river travels all the way into Riverhead town and eventually spills out into the Peconic bay between the two forks of the island. My Grandfather used to canoe these waters as a youngster and in some places well over 100 years later .. not much has changed .. Oh if the whole world could be this serene

Last stop was a beautiful fresh water lake that is just outside the town of Riverhead called Wildwood ...Years ago they allowed homes to be built up all around it which kind of stinks .. I don't think there is any public swimming in the summer .. but there is a part that you can park near and just admire the beauty and the wildlife .. we had a good time .. it was a nice sunny day and were glad we stopped by

Hmmmm.............

 My Sweetie said something to me the other night that made me do some thinking and introspection.. And then this morning a really good online friend had a similar situation to mine happen to her and I found myself consoling her. In my life .. it seems I am a connector and healer of others and seem to watch them go on to bigger things .. while I am sitting here, seemingly watching.  lol  Now I cannot complain - I have a totally wonderful life.. but here it is - laid out and bare.. There are many people in my life who I have helped tremendously in their lives .. and now they are on doing tremendous things and as Mike said - Honey - when is your break coming ? I had to honestly say - I don't know .... But I am a happy person .. so does it matter ????

Now I could sit here and lie about it and say - Oh it never bothers me - because at times it really does.. for example .. two of my ex bandmates who I worked really hard to be successful with  - are now playing in new other  bands .. one a pretty popular local band that is having their music played in some independant films .. what am I doing .. nothing musically at the moment - hell I have not even played my piano lately !.. I have looked for bands - sadly for women age Does become a factor .. even though I look young the adds say - no one over 35 please and I think - how the hell dare they discriminate against me because I am a woman of a certain age .. I can still sing rings around the youngsters.. Then I think to myself .. well who wants to work with ingrates like that .. so then I say to myself.. There must be something really good coming my way .. or that I will find  and I move on. 

 I have another friend who I helped in many ways and the last thing was I found a little blurb online that said - because shes disabled - she can qualify for half property tax .. woo hoo who would not love that.. Then I think yeah and how happy I will be when I am paying my full share and working hard to do it - after all the crap I  have been through .. then I say to myself .. its a priveledge to be able to work and contribute to society .. I am sure that my friend wishes she did not have to be so dependant on the kindness of others and she does tell me how much she appreciates all I have done for her .. all the time

I have another friend who is accomplished in her chosen profession .. worked really hard to get where she is  .. is very talented at what she does and the last few years or so has been sliding a slippery slope into obscurity in her craft .. through decisions she has made and some illness and bad timing and bad teaching  .. and I have been there to bolster her spirits and just be an ear for her. Hopefully she is turning around now and I truly love her so much .. I have to say she does thank me all the time for listening .. I am sure have been through many lifetimes with her and will be there through thick and thin for her  

 And then of course there is the woman who wound up marrying my ex husband... All those years ago - when she came to work at my Ex's office - I was the one who convinced her to go to Al Anon meetings because she was, at the time, living with am alcoholic who drank himself into oblivion at the drop of a hat over anything... one day she brought every bit of bills and paperwork to the office in her huge handbag... I said why do you have all that with you .. she said - well If 'J'  knows we cannot pay our bills he will only drink even more... I told her - you are a middle aged woman - go to meetings, learn how to cope and take some responsibility for your life... She did .. she moved out on the crum and moved into an apt a few blocks from my home and a few years later .. My ex left me and within a year married her ....lol.. I lived with the man almost 25 years .. and as you read I am laughing.. lol...... 

I could go on recounting the times I have helped others and it seemed that I was just left empty handed or with seemingly nothing to show for helping others .. to my Sweetie and other members of my family, I think about it and then realize it must be hard for all of them to stand by and watch. After all the last seven years have been tough. I have been in tremendous debt. Had to sell a home I loved. Struggled with my health. Moved to a tiny home where we are crowded as hell. Had an old van that was beat up and had many miles on it and kept breaking down and putting me in more debt. Had an unscrupulous Auctioneer  woman who came with excellent credentials, talk me into auctioning  my home, as opposed to selling it  and also the contents and when I refused to sell it for over a hundred thousand less than market value ... she sold my home furnishings for way under their value to pay herself for the day .. she sent me nothing .. I had to follow her to her other auctions and write letters and threaten turning her into her various Auction organizations... she finally gave my My money... but it was after everyone was shaking their head at me ! 

 Then two weeks ago I got hit in my nice new car by a woman who just took off on me - and my car is being fixed on my insurance which will no doubt go up in payments now through No fault of my own ..Not to mention I have a diabetic daughter and now her fiance who has no place else to live, is  here with us ...Best thing is that I am happily moving into a new home where I have no doubt I am going to be happy ...

Now.. I guess at first glance it would look to most - as if I have this little black cloud hanging over my head. Or worse that I let people take tremendous advantage of me or walk all over me  .. But I just do not see it that way at all. I am so much happier at this point in my life - than I have ever been before. I do believe for the most part ( not all ) that we create much of our own lives and therefore destiny .. yet I also know that I set most of this all up before I came here this lifetime. Every single time I have helped someone else solve a problem or tackle a huge setback..

I have learned things of major importance that helped the next person who waltzed into my life, not to mention ME !  And for those times I had someone throw something I said to help them - back in my face - and hard ..and with pointed fingers and anger - I learned never to volunteer any intuitions  anymore.. even when asked, because without realizing it - I was slowing that persons own intuitive growth !!! Even when I intuitively know someone is making huge mistakes.. I let them .. because their mistakes are their own - and how the hell else will they learn anything !!!  I no longer do 'readings' because people get addicted to someone else 'telling them what to do ' and become themselves incapacitated...

 Healing work is a different matter .. but I will only work with someone who has given up the physical vices of self abuse .. and also only with people who take responsibility for learning how to heal themselves with my love and knowledge and  help and caring guidance  .. because after all I have no power over anyone to heal them.. People heal when they decide that they deserve to heal.. and healing does not always mean a cure ....

Everytime I have fallen I have gotten myself up - dusted myself off and started all over again.

When I could not go on.. I myself was carried by my family who love me beyond measure and mean more than anything in the world to me..

 When I had to sell my beautiful home, the day of closing, my daughter who should have been more distraught than anyone else .. held me in her arms as I cried like a baby for all I had lost in life... I learned from HER that day and have been forever grateful...

Whenever I see something in someone else that really bothers me - I reluctantly realize that it is a reflection of something in myself I must not be happy with. Everytime I am in a store and complete stranger runs up to me to ask me questions in childlike innocence because they have just been 'awakened' ... and everytime I meet someone of like person and mind and have a conversation each us knowing who we are and just what we are here for this lifetime .. and Mike witnesses it all  and I say to him -  Like Attracts Like - he says to me - I Knew you would say that ! lol...

This is my life and I am happy for the most part with it....Lately though, I do find myself putting my 'busy signal' up when I am on AOL .. because after all the years of learning and helping and processing and doing .. I have realized that this time coming in - is for ME.    Sure I have responsibilities, sure I have bills to work towards paying - who doesn't .. but .. Now more than ever I cherish ALL I have learned and ALL I have become.

 I start each day with a huge smile and I never mind being alone. I no longer need to feel satisfied by helping someone else in their struggles...  It's Theirs to discover on their own - or struggle that much harder by not discovering .....

 I sit out in nature and give my gratitude to God and the Universe each and every day.

I send prayers for all those in my family I love and for those who are in True  need - I send Reiki to those who are at a distance from me and are  ill - and realize that this is ALL I ever need do to help anyone .. 

I pet my kitties and feel the love they give to me no matter what.

 I listen to the windchimes make beautiful music for my soul. I walk the shoreline and take hundreds of pictures and pick up stones and shells and driftwood that I cherish as the Universes' gifts to ME  

 I sing little songs I make up  to the birds and the cats and my doggie and My daughter and her pets .. and I am practicing for the Grandchildren that will come someday and they are all grateful...

I realize that after all I been through ..

I am ALL I NEED..

and its a wonderful thing xoxooo

 I have taken a lot of pictures of late and wanted to post them - but it seems I have almost reached my limit for this month .. OOPS .. I will hold off until I have some that are truly amazing ....if thats possible ! Well we are officially in contract for the new house .. we signed and they signed and now I begin packing .. since we are most likely going to keep this house as the summer house it was .. I won't have as much to pack. If it turns out we cannot keep it - we will just have a huge tag sale at the end of summer . People out here love a tag sale and I know we would have no problems emptying the house   I was holding back about being excited .. but now I can officially say I am excited ! I have many ideas about what I want to do and Mike has many ideas about how he wants to make gardens. The yard is basically a clean slate and bare. I want herb gardens and a labrynth. Mike wants a nice berm with some pampas grass in the front yard. He also wants a rose garden. We have our work cut out for us....but we really do not mind .. we have much gratitude to be able to move the way we are. I will also have room for some healing work.. so I am putting that out there - I have missed it .. thats about it for now .. I have been taking a lot of pictures and I also got ahold of some  Photoshop software so I have been playing with all my pictures .... woo hoo ! LOL .. stay well and enjoy the week xxooxxoxoo

Got to the beach and the sunset wasn't the best I have seen - but I got to use the new camera so it was fun anyhow ... brought the kiddies and they also took some pictures ... photography is the family hobby it seems .. xoxxooo

Blue skies .. Smiling at me ...Nothing but Blue skies .. Do I see ....

well almost ! I was out in the backyard with the kitties marveling at how amazingly blue the sky was and went inside to get my camera and when I got back out .. Damn pesky Contrail !!!!

We seem to get alot of them here on the Isle of Long .. we have many Military things going on ...where I am now I am close to Calverton where Grumman used to be - and where they had put back together TWA Flight 800 that went down off the coast years back... We are also close to Westhampton airport where many military planes take off and also 20 minutes from Brookhaven Labs.... so Contrails always intrigue me and annoy me because I would love to know exactly what they are and what they do .....if anyone wishes to share .. please do ..  I am hoping to walk to the beach later to view and photograph the sunset .. with this sky it should be amazing and since I have no car right now I will have to use as my dad would call it the ' shoeleather express' which I don't mind -but my back is still sore and I need to take it easy .. so I shall .. I love walking .. I always have -always will.. Enjoy the day ... back later xooxoxoxoxoxo