This is in dedication to a friend of mine's father who recently passed away. He was a huge fan of hiking, making walking sticks, and enjoying the outdoors with his son. There was more to him than that, obviously, but I couldn't tell you, his son can. This guy didn't look at his dad only as his dad, but as one of his best friends. His father has been popping up in his life a bit lately with many seemingly miracle and life altering events. First, his son was hiking alone without his hiking stick, twisted his ankle, and along comes a guy who gives him his stick, and it turns out, it's one of his fathers' sticks that had been given to this other hiker when HE had twisted his own ankle many years previous. Then a few weeks had passed and out of the blue, someone whom his father worked with many years before shows up at his son's door to hand him what appeared to be a short little walking stick, nothing that a normal height man could possibly use. It was given to him by this this man's father as an inside joke, and this man who had worked with his father had seen the obituary in the paper, and thought his son might like the token back. I'm not sure if he's located himself into this gallery yet, as he is a photographer, but he is known at www.artzone.com as MrMagician. I asked permission to use the background image in this rendering. I claim no copyright ownership over the background image of any kind and hope where I posted it over at AZ that he enjoys what I've done with it. If anyone here has any questions, you can pose them to Mr.Magician here, whether it's about his father's story, or about permission of usage of the background. http://artzone.daz3d.com/index.php?mode=people_card&p_id=31792 Thomas