Hi there,
As a brand new member of NASS I was delighted with the reception I got at the recent conference in Portland. The tour was first rate, the talks were interesting, and the camaraderie was wonderful. At this point I am just a little more than an observer, and I was thoroughly impressed by being accepted into such august company. I really appreciated the sharing of info and techniques, and I was quite blown away by the near infinite range of types and style of dials. I would especially like to thank Fred Sawyer and John Schilke for putting the conference together, Colby Lamb and Rob and Julie Brown for showing their work, and Gino Schiavone for the personalized pocket dial and Tom Kreyche for the personalized disks with sun information on them. And, wow, a complete flash drive with scads of information on it. Wunnerful, wunnerful. The Friday tour, unfortunately was cloudy, but I took my grandson out to Marylhurst on Wednesday and, along with Jan Dabrowski, we became gnomons for the great analemmatic sundial. It looked to me like it was right on. We also caught a good shadow at Reed College, shortly before noon. I tried to attach photos but it made the message too big. I was not aware of the 50KB limit. The photos on the flickr channel started by John Carmichael. I will also have an album on Facebook and possibly SmugMug. I will also make a personal list of all whose e-mail addresses I have, so that attachments will go through. http://www.flickr.com/groups/1240...@n22/ You are the most giving bunch of people I know and I am proud to be associated with you. Tom Laidlaw _____
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