I am back, did anyone miss me? LOL I had a wonderful trip, it was reassuring to see my Dad, the thing that was the hardest was seeing the weight he had lost, his weight is now at 190 which is very low for his height of 6 feet 8 inches the saying is true he was born in Texas and everything is bigger in Texas lol, whenever I needed to find my dad in a crowd I just looked up. but seeing him now so frail broke my heart, but he had a wonderful birthday, his phone never stopped ringing and visitors showed up all day, it was great to see. He is not in the best of health but he has an amazing attitude and outlook, as does my Mom who has been taking care of him. And I have to give her high praise for that, but I think they both find humor in it all and in the support of friends, neighbors and family to pull them through. I took quite a few pictures while I was out there, my gosh I forgot just HOW beautiful California and my home town of Simi Valley could be. After I got back home I found that my computer had basically crashed, and I tried to salvage it, but finally gave into a new laptop, (my first) and a new desk top both Gateways and they are awesome, did I say they were awesome? LOL making sure. So I will make a big attempt to play catch up with you all. And wow I have missed everyone. This was taken at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library which is in the town where I grew up, my sister was rushing me LOL since we had a long list of to do things, so blame any lack of quality on her. And we did get to tour inside the plane as well, but no photos were allowed once you got to the red carpet. Great to be back.

Thank you for your recent comments and visits to my gallery. A few of you commented on the post work on my recent photo below I just added a touch of posterizing in Photoshop. To do that simply go to your FILTER tab then to the ARTISTIC tab then to poster edge and give it a slight adjust, to me to much of it takes away from the photo. If you would like help with that site mail me I would be happy to walk you through it.

Grist Mill at the Museum of Appalachia