It's got a pelican, you can't have everything!

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Waller <[email protected]>
>Sent: Jan 1, 2009 12:27 PM
>To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long.
>
>>I like you photo, but it needs more snow.:-)
>
>...or a cormorant....
>
>Kenneth Waller
>http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "David J Brooks" <[email protected]>
>
>Subject: Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long.
>
>
>Very nicely put Cesar.
>
>Happy New Year to you and your family as well.
>
>I like you photo, but it needs more snow.:-)
>
>Dave
>
>On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Cesar Matamoros II
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> Greetings to the list,
>>
>> First, I must apologize to the list for being quiet for so long.  But then
>> again my silence may not be not be a bad thing :-)  I have had too much
>> going on personally that I have had to sacrifice my time 'on the list'. 
>> And
>> though it may be a celebratory time this post is not influenced by my
>> partaking on some 2002 Gannon Cabernet Sauvignon.
>>
>> Ere I forget, Happy New Year!
>>
>> I am just getting back from spending New Year's Eve with my parents and an
>> aunt.  We celebrated the New Year in two USA time zones - one for the east
>> coast [New York City - where I am from and where my parents began their 
>> life
>> in the USA], and one for the central time zone where we are geographically
>> located.  We did end the night 'culturally' by having tamales and coffee.
>>  It brings back many memories from my childhood.  I did miss out on 
>> torrijas
>> though :-(
>>
>> I have no pictures to post yet - though I did take quite a few on the 
>> 31st.
>>  I will go out to take some shots this New Year.  I will be taking them
>> digitally [*ist D] along with medium format [Pentax 67] and possibly 35mm
>> [LX or Leica M3 or IIIf].  It has been too long since I have taken a 35mm
>> shot :-(  I am sure I will bore you with the digital shots soon enough... 
>> I
>> just remembered - I have the 645 format that I can shoot in too!  Too many
>> cameras, too little time :-P
>>
>> Tonight I was made aware of the importance of family - this was reinforced
>> by a list member who repeatedly poked me to get in touch.  I will not
>> mention them by name, but suffice it to say that this list seems to be a
>> grounding of sorts for me.  I must say that I am blessed not only by my
>> family by 'blood' but by the family that is this list.  I must admit that 
>> I
>> have come across a few 'families' in my meanderings.  And I must reiterate
>> that this list is a 'family'.  And the most recent goings on  has 
>> reinforced
>> this along with my history with the list.  And I will not even go into to
>> Grandfather Mountain.
>>
>> It is amazing how we, as human beings, react to 'arbitrary' conditions 
>> like
>> the New Year as opposed to solstices and such.
>> It seems that even after a time away, all I need to do is to contact this
>> list and I get a grand welcome and in a sense an appreciated 'hug'.  I 
>> have
>> to thank you all for this.
>>
>> I am too alert to go to bed so I turn to the list to speak my piece.  No
>> matter how we may feel we know we can turn to this list.
>>
>> I do have a shot now more or less ready to present to the list:
>> http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/mypics/583584/display/15480044
>> is a shot I took before 2008 expired.  It is not a great shot, but does
>> document where I was and when...
>>
>> Good light and working tools,
>>
>> César
>> Panama City, Florida
>> 
>
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