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Shall I be the first?

Hi Catherine! Welcome to your page. Hope you like chocolate. I'm leaving a double chocolate fudge beavertail pastry for you as a page warming gift. Enjoy!

25 Dec: Merry Christmas Catherine

Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy & Healthy
New Year.

Enjoy having your own page.

Hello Cathy, I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas, so ...

Bonjour Catherine, Bonne Année et Bonne Santé

Happy New Year Catherine and welcome to your page, your photography is wonderful x

Happy New Year Catherine nice to see you posting again.

Hi Catherine, Happy New Year. Brought you some and .

catherine, welcome to SM and my page status. My traditional housewarming gift, a Redwood burl. See my page for an explanation. Please post a picture here so we can all easilly go to your Flickr site to see the rest of them.

Hi Catherine,
Welcome to My Page ! I see you are also new here . I am still organizing my place . Hope you are OK . Love your photos ! I am working on my new Morocco presentations - you will get the as soon as I finish them. Morocco was great ! I will write to you more about it - it was a great experience for us, from many point of views . Marakkesh is wonderful !

Of course what I meant was ' welcome to your place ' , but you are very welcome to my page too

salut catherine! maintenant tu peux montrer toutes tes belles photos ici à tout le monde!

I am glad you like your page. I think it's a very nice thing ! Fiona is right ! Your photos are great and we will all be able to enjoy them now. Just put one photo from Flickr here ,then we can see all your photos.

Catherine, Welcome, or should I say, bon jour. Ok, I've used up my French. Except for my favorite French, Menage a Trois. NOT WHAT YOU THINK!!!!! It is a nice wine from the FOLIE A DEUX winery in Napa valley in California. I would not think to insult a Frenchwoman by leaving a bottle of American wine! Rather, here are some Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory truffles! Enjoy!

Allo Catherine, I come bringing greetings and well wishes for the New Year. Happy to see that you have 'found' your page, and look forward to getting to know you a little better. Welcome to the sm page world. Hope you enjoy as I do. Please visit when you can. Hope you enjoy the cake and bubbly, or feel free to share it with your guest.

Bon jour mon ami (friend - is it always ami or are there male & female versions as in Spanish, amigo & amiga??). Glad you found your page. Hope you will soon post some photos - maybe some new ones of Elsa?? Hope she & all your family are doing well in the new year.

Bonne annee Catherine!! A votre sante!! Bienvenue A 'your page'!! Voila les 'cherry walnut bars' que je faire pour le Noel. Je n'ai pas une idee qu'est ce que je parle. Je parle bien les 'Franglais'....Voulez vous visiter a 'my page'??? xoxoxo, Suzanne

Bonjour Catherine! Votre racines sont tres peu. J'aime le couleur que vous faire. Mon conseul: faire exactement le meme couleur encore! C'est tres belle!!

Catherine, j'ai visité votre site Flickr. Vous êtes une inspiration. Merci

Bonjour Catherine! I just reviewed part of your Flickr photos, but you have so many that I will come back again to dinish. (I got to page 7.) I really like your 'sunset on the river' photo and your 'carousel' picture. You have an eye for beauty, and I like your abstracts too. The best to you for 2007!

Bonjour , Catherine! Your english is just fine! This is a good place to read and write and try to learn. I just went through your FLIKR site. Beautiful pictures!

Catherine
beautiful photo, your english is just fine and has improved a lot since you have been sharing here on site.
cheers

catherine, I posted some information about Redwood trees and burls on my page in answer to questions from Liz. I'll paste those same answers here for you. I love your picture. What a great dog.

Liz, after the holiday season, I'm going to post some pics about Redwoods. They are native to the coastal region in the northwestern US. They live to over 1000 years old, can be over 300 feet tall, with a trunk 15-20 feet in diameter. Sadly, most of the redwood giants have been logged, there are few left. The burl is a tourist purchase to take home and grow.

Liz, I wanted to expand on what I was telling about redwood trees. I've put some pictures of the redwood tree in my back yard on my flickr site. I don't know how old it is, but it is still a baby, probably less than 100 years old. The trunk has a circumfrence of ll feet 6 inches 4 feet above ground level. At that height, the trunk looks to be about 4 feet diameter. I found a site where you could buy one of the burls I've been handing out to people on their home pages. It is:

http://www.treesofmystery.net/cgi-bin/online/storepro .php?product=10000:0930030-3
Delete any spaces in the address.

catherine, what wonderful pictures in your Flickr gallery. You have a great eye for composition ... I take snap shots. Well done.

Catherine, you are beautiful! I was in awe as I traveled through your photos ... they are wonderful ... France is lovely ... and I want to take Ricky home with me!

Bonjour Catherine! Just found your page and wanted to stop by. Lovely photo of you.

Catherine, Thank you for your visit. I had the opportunity to review all of the pictures on your flickr site. They are captivating. You have the ability to take the common place and make it appear as something that is unique! Oh yes, your English is far better than my French.

catherine, it dawned on me I didn't answer the only question you asked, that being what is a burl? A burl is a growth sort of like a tumor a tree produces to cover over an injury. The wood is prized by carvers and turners for it's beauty since any grain goes every which way. Redwood burls throw out sprouts and are cut into small pieces and sold as novelty items for tourists to take home and grow.

Hello Catherine, this the first chance I have had to visit your page, and I love your decorating style!! Am leaving some Aussie cheese, acacia and myrtle flavoured, amd some chocolate-coated macadamias to share, Enjoy!!

Catherine, A beautiful name for a beautiful person. I loved to visit France when I lived in Germany (Heidelberg). Barb spent some time there when she went to the Ryder Cup in England.

Hi Catherine. It's been awhile since I stopped in, but I wanted to look at some more of your photos. I love the 'Ice' set and really like the still life 'Eaten'. Good stuff! Hope all is well with you! Cheers!

You are still here Catherine, thank goodness, thought you had got lost in cyberland now that is a big place to loose oneself!! As ever beautiful photographs x

catherine, I just took the time to look through all your wonderful pictures. There were many that were new to me. You have a gift for expressing yourself with your camera. I feel honored to get to see bits of the world through your eyes.

At least I know why you are so busy now, the gorgeous Elsa xx Take care xx Thinking of you xx

Just spent a few more minutes browsing through more of your pictures, the Walk ste and your Preferred set. You take some wonderful pictures Catherine. Thanks for sharing them.

Hi Catherine. If you go into Update details on your Supporting Member page, one of the options you have is to create an avatar. When you open the avatar feature, you get these instructions:

Submit Avatar
You can have an Avatar (image) appear next to all of your posts.
Avatars must be:
File size must be under 5kb
The image must be in .JPG or .GIF format (not an animated gif)
The image must be 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Many programs can resize images, a great free one is ACDSEE
Any avatars judged objectionable will not be allowed.
Once you upload your avatar, it will be pending until staff approve it (typically 12-24 hours). There will be a 'avatar pending' message on your user details page. Once it is approved, your avatar will automatically be used in your posts. If it is not approved (unlikely) then it will be deleted and you will have a 'no avatars pending' message on your user details page.
Enter the location of the image which wil be your avatar.

The site I use for creating an avatar is at the following link:
http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

Hope that helps.

By the way Catherine,if you use
http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/
all you have to enter for the pixel size is 50.

Catherine have a wonderful Easter. Will you be sharing the holiday with Elsa? I leave a chocolate egg for you hand decorated, dark chocolate and a little delight inside xx

Happy Easter Catherine! Hope you have a great Easter weekend!

Hello Catherine,

Just dropping by to wish you and your family a Happy Easter

Hello Catherine,

I just took a tour of your photos, loved them all. I especially liked the orange and black beetles, the Christmas market looks simular to the ones in Germany I went to. The pictures of Notre Dame brought back good memories, was there in January, I loved Paris. We also went to Mont Saint Michel it was lovely also. Enjoyed our two weeks in France. This was my third trip to France, love your country.