Hi all;

Been fiddling with digital photography for a while;

http://community.webshots.com/user/jeff1951h?vhost=community

JEff

I love to take pictures, but usually it is of the grand kids. 

My eldest son moved to Alaska in 1991. A few years later he married, and they now have 5 children and 2 foster children. My last visit was a few years ago. My daughter and I went together, and had a wonderful time (of course!). I've been there several times, always breathtaking views and stunning scenery.

I've been to lots of places in my life and I've recognized talent long before the Emmys and the Oscars.  This picture is of me kissing Sandra Bullock's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame back in 2005 (or 2006, I'm not sure).

In 2006 I visited Padaung Village in northern Thailand.  There live the Long Neck Karens, a Padaung Hilltribe.  The women wear the brass neck rings, getting their first around age 5.  Rings are added yearly, but are never taken off.  The women are the bread-winners, supporting their families by weaving textiles. The men are stay-at-home dads and teachers. The village has classrooms in huts, where the children learn language, math and geography.  Thailand is beautiful, and the food is absolutely delicious!

Fran Wagner

Hi!

Just back from that way and the climate is near perfect.  What was striking was how HEALTHY everyone looked-in comparrisson to anywhere else on the planet you could name, that is.   We are pretty much stuck with either Minnesota or Arizona as "places to retire"-but EV is not that far from Old Arizona.

JEff RHS '69  

Pictures from my cultural exchange trip last September.

Patricia

Hi ya'll;

I retired from the railroad this past OCT and if there's one thing I came out of 33 years of railroad movements with it is a firm belief in guardian angels.  It was a great career but now it is time to forget all that and move Westwards-like I have been dreaming about since Junior High School (too many of those 50s Westerns?).  We are thinking Arizona and should have affairs here wrapped up this year.

Jeff G

My wife Diana and I were walking along when I stopped this little boy standing in his doorway in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.  I got this picture before he turned.

     My wife Diana and I were walking down the street and this little boy steped out from around his door.  I took the picture before he could close the door again.  I love the county.....

Bruce

We spent an afternoon at our training facility, driving police cars, talking about his exotic collection.  Interesting day at work!

On the side of a building in Montreal, this huge mural of Leonard Cohen, the secular patron saint of Montreal

NATURE ARTWORK 

Womens Skydivers over Sixty Sequential World Record

Cheryl (Mcgovern) Johnson   RHS 69

Women Skydivers over Sixty World Sequential Record April 23, 2019 Perris Valley, California

I have the purple helmet.

Cheryl (McGovern) Johnson 

Hi 69ers!

Well I inherited some land in North Dakota and go up there to shoot photos (just photos as I quit hunting back in the 70s) whenever I can.   Anyhow it is some of the wildest country in the lower 48 and we have mule deer, white tails, badgers, coyotes, geese, ducks, pheasants etc etc... and yes MOOSE.  Aaand here is one.   Yes folks, that is MY MOOSE...well until he wanders off to somewhere else.  And there are...well quite a few that anyone can make out.  One time were driving down one of my 4 wheel roads and all of a sudden a big, hairy freight train went roaring in front of us, and after our astonshment we realized it was a cow moose and two calves!  WOW!  To see them that close!   So...of course I gotta make a joke out this to keep in my back pocket and whip out on the right occaision-and when people ask me what I do these days I tell them that "I'm a moose herder, betcha never met one before!"  Then I explain it all...cool and awesome animals!