HalT from S Carolina

So very sorry to hear about Dave's sudden passing. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Hal, I am sorry to hear of the loss of Barbara's bother. Take care, and know that you are both, as is your extended family, in my thoughts.

Thank you for the welcome. I know Troy, i'll be driving by it today up I-75 as I head to Minster to see my Mom at the nursing home. I live in Cincinnati. I enjoy sudoku to unwind before bed. The community is pretty neat, i enjoy reading the posts. Have a great day!

Lovely photos of your Fripp Island get together, Hal.

Hal, I have just had a peek at the photos in your gallery and you have some great photos in there. You have a great eye for composition and your collection contains some superb photos.

Enjoyed your photos Hal. Nice seeing Keith and Lynne who I met when they were in Sydney.

It's still 25/May/11 here too - I'll have to check that picture next year & see if it gets another birthday comment. The upsetting thing is that, while it was taken with my camera, I was not the photographer.

To Mr & Mrs. HalT...
HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY!
WOW! CONGRATULATIONS! WOW!

Barbara and Hal, what a long and I'm sure loving relationship you two have shared. I'm sure there were ups and downs, and that you have lots of both wonderful and sad memories, but most importantly, the two of you have had 50 years of shared joy and sorrow together. Congratulations on your 50th anniversary. I am happy for you.

Happy 50th Hal, it is actually quite an achievement these days. It means that you both have survived the inevitable lumps and bumps of marriage and come out smiling together at the end of a marathon period. But it is the happy, loving times that count most and Anne and I wish you many more in the years to come. Congratulations.

Congratulations on your Golden Wedding Anniversary. Have a wonderful time celebrating.

Congratulations Hal and Barbara on the milestone of your 50th Wedding Anniversary.
What a great achievement for you both. Have a wonderful celebration and a great weekend.
to the happy couple!
Best wishes to you both.
Anne

Lynne and I wish you and Barbara a wonderful 50th Anniversary. May there be many more to come.

Hal, sorry I am late but just saw you & Barbara are celebrating a BIG event. Best wishes to you both & many more celebrations to come.

Hal, thanks for your reply. I don't claim to be a photographer. There are many, yourself included, who take better photos than I do. Nal/Miami is I think my favourite photographer. Her fabulous photos can be found at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nal_miami/
In answer to your question, I use two cameras, mostly I use a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ7 because it takes reasonable photos and it is not as cumbersome as the SLR which is a Pentax K 100D with a 28 - 300 zoom lens. Both cameras are ageing now and there are many better cameras on the market. My wife, Anne, uses a Panasonic Lumix DMC - TZ10 which has a 12x lens and is a serious little pocket(!) camera. She allows me to use it occasionally.

Hal, your Mom did fabulous work with that quilt and I'm sure all the others she made. I can see them being passed down through future generations. What a beautiful memory and tradition that will be.

Glad you liked my poem. It is kind of unnerving posting where all the world can see. I work with elementary school "reluctant learners" so I dabble in juvenile humor.

Hal, sorry to inform you but that poem keeps getting blocked by the automatic word censor, a word in a word...something to do with what grows in the garden! Maybe try an * for the o.

Hello Mr HalT - thanks for checking out my photos and for your comments. Some parts are similar to places in the N.T. and I love visiting up there. This is the first time I've been up there when the wildflowers are in bloom. Our state is known as the Wildflower State.

Love all your photos thank you for sharing them.
Now, I really must get some work done. Well maybe another coffee first.

Great photos Hal. It looks like you had a suprt trip!

Did the Mills Brothers sing that? It's from Porgy and Bess. Somehow I got the feeling the Mills Brothers had stopped singing by the time that came out in the late l930s.

MR.T

Re the "10 messages a day" thing - I have complained to Gath about this as I used to reply individually to the riddlers each day but soon realised I'd used up my quota in a few minutes and couldn't communicate with anyone after that for 24 hours! Apparently if you are a supporting member, this doesn't happen...but, yes, it is a nuisance!

You betcha! He's our Crocodile Dundee of the sudoku world!

Of course I love the carousel! It's easier riding the horses there than in real life. Real horses are a pain in the butt!!!

Happy Thanksgiving, Hal! May you and your family be blessed this holiday season

Hal!
Wishing you and your family a beautiful holiday and blessings the year long

Wishing you and yours the best in the New Year

Hi Hal. I just wanted to wish you and all those you care for a very happy Christmas, and all the best in the year to come. Cheers!

Mate to you and Mrs H. Hope it is the best yet.

Do you know what you are asking of me!

Do you really think I can wait 5 whole minutes?

Sweet dreams.

I dropped by to tell you I wish you well with the doc and just spent an hour going through your photos! My dinner is going to be late!
You are such a good photographer!

Hal, I just wanted to wish you well with the results of your tests. I think if they had discovered anything seriously wrong you would be in hospital by now having things done to you. It's a good time to be optimistic.

A belated to your grandson, HalT! Hope Scott had a wonderful birthday!
(Hopefully he lives nearby or gets to visit often!)

Hi Halt,
Thanks for evaluating the two versions of the 'TODAY' postings on My Page. I'll keep both versions there, because you like the first - and I like the second.
By the second version, I had found and used a higher resolution image of the (otherwise same) 'fireweed' illustration (top right). The result is that picture becomes much clearer. I also improved the quality of the neighbouring picture to that by tarting it up with 'Paint'.
In fact the 'fireweed' photograph is the best one of that plant I have ever seen. The clarity of the larger image is superb. I am particularly fond of 'fireweed' (latin name Chamaenerion angustifolium), because I once did a research study on tagged spikes in a London common. I studied the phenology (floret development) in association with visiting pollinators (honey bees and bumble bees). I found that bumble bees visited the endemic variant and honey bees the introduced variant (from Europe). As far I remember the stamens release their pollen first, then older florets present their stigmas to receive pollen from further insect visits; presumably then providing nectar.
Nature is very efficient.
The other flower is actually popularly named the "Yesterday Today and Tomorrow" plant, so I thought that was appropriate.
Thanks again for your encouraging comments.

Hello Hal, thank you for all your lovely comments on my photos. I really appreciate you taking the time to visit my gallery.
Cheers,
Anne

Hello Hal - once again, thank you for your very nice and witty comments on my photos.
You asked a question about some structure on a photo near the Windfarm. It's just wooden steps down to the rocks and beach below as you get a few keen fishermen there. If they catch too much it's a hard struggle back up those steps. There's a few hundred of them.