shots from the past

I looked thru each an every photo package I've accumulated over more than 3 decades, but it looks like my 1981 photo of Clifford Simak didn't make it thru all those moves over North-America. It was a neat journey thru the Past though. Hey! There's Robert Silverberg with his hair all black! And here is a shot from Boréal 1982, which had been held in Chicoutimi by organizer Elisabeth Vonarburg: from left to right, Judith Merril, Alexei Kondratiev, and CJ Cherryh.

13 bags of gold ash

The ash in front of our house has shed almost all its leaves so I thought today was a good time to sweep up the once-golden now-brown layer around it. That added up to thirteen 33-gallon bags.

the end of the war in Iraq

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Z7tdukQuo&feature=player_embedded )