Thank you, everyone, for the warm welcome! Nope, Rich, my name has never been Asher, sorry :). Don, I left a table saw for Santa. It was very well received :).

Even Jester Park has a nice bird blind and wild life area :) and a pelican festival in the spring (I think it was spring…mighta been fall…)

Chichaqua Bottoms is a cool place, I went there for a winter festival a few years back, I don't know if they still do it but they had dog sleds, ice fishing, and all sorts of stuff. We spent most of our time cross country skiing. I have also canoed out there in the summer.

I'm in! I was in a group when I lived in Tennessee that would do an outing each month, I got to explore and photo some pretty cool places with them.

Thanks Wahawk. Shucks, I thought the S5IS was the bomb when I got it (five years ago it was the bomb) but this chunk-a-black blows that poor guy's doors off! I braved the cold the first week I had it to take pictures of the moon, people thought I had pictures of pictures of the moon!

Hello,

I have been a photography enthusiast since the middle '80s ('70s if you count the 110 instamatics :) Santa brought me a Canon SX50 for Christmas to replace my old S5IS. Santa is the coolest!! I find that a new toy gets the creative juices flowing all over again.

I have been lurking, and reading, and oohing, and ahhhing…and, most of all, learning on this forum for a couple of weeks. You all are a wealth of knowledgeable information!

Thanks so much,
Sondra