It showed the same candidate that I am backing but surprised me as to how closely opposing candidates scored. The initial thought was that that just reflects my 'moderate point of view' but made me wonder if the dynamic runs a little deeper than that.

I've seen several trees that seem to be grafted together like that. The owner of the property said he had always been told that they were once two small saplings, tied together with a strip of rawhide by the indigenous Indians who were making a temporary, overnight shelter.

Looks like you don't want to be left, right, or long on this hole.

2 or 3, but it's really good wine.

I was wondering the other day why there are right-wing and left-wing extremists but no moderate-extremists.

When I see great moments like in the 1st shot I always do a right-click with my mouse and make it my desktop background for the next few days until the next one comes around (usually when I'm reading U&HH).

Thanks Jerry,

But if I remember correctly, for the question of "What's the Meaning of Life?" the answer is "42".

(From the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".)

Thanks,

I used that technique to fix my continual problem of having to sign in each time I launched my email handler. I've been fighting that for several years now. Who knew I'd find the answer on a photography blog.

I'm no expert but will say the second (b&w) photo is beautiful and although it's slightly off topic, I also like the first colorized photo for certain effects with media like pps shows where the original b&w is displayed and then is morphed with the color-saturated photo before going on to the next slide. To me the effect is that the clarity and focus from the first photo is remebered and the brief morphing with saturated color after that gives it a feel of 'coming to life'. Works well for some types of presentations.

From his service ribbons looks as if he recently graduated from basic training and I see he qualified as "Expert" on the rifle range. Well done!!

I worked for 30 years for Cummins Diesel Engines and the last few years spent a good deal of time working with US Army contracts for parts replacements. Very interesting indeed. We would sometimes get large orders with really strange packaging requirements (packed with cosmoline, out packaging needed to withstand underwater pressures, etc.) Once, when having dinner with a government purchasing agent I asked about the strange requirements and he said that indicates parts may have been destined to be staged in secret, underwater, inventory areas along coastal portions of the U.S. One of the "parts" we sold them that required the extreme packaging treatment was an injector test stand valued at $45K.