Trip Photos

For those who have sent encouraging words about Chuck, I thank you from my heart.  I talked with some staff last night and they said he was in the process of becoming aware and understanding what he had attempted to do.  They hope to move him to a VA Mental Facility where he can finish his recovery and prepare for his normal as a stronger man.  His trucker job is waiting for him.  His friends are stepping in, even from distances.  Truckers have an amazing bond, these guys. 


PHOTOS! I took over 2300 photos! Don't you love the new digital media?

I have to wait to download the photos until I can to work in Frank's new computer.  Mine doesn't have available space to transfer them to Dropbox.  I have a Board Meeting tonight so that will take a few days to get don.  I need do some work to get the data small enough for the blogger gods to accept them.  

For each vacation trip I put together a photo book.  I write narratives from the notes I take during the trip and I will be posting them here for you to read through.  Or you can just look at the photos Although I do a lot of research on the places and events and there is history and information included in the narrative.  Incredibly I learn a lot AFTER I get home that I wish I had known BEFORE I  got there!

 As I get the photos reworked I will be posting some incredible photos from

Iceland -3 days
Norway - 2 days

Shetland  Isles - 1 day
Scotland - 3 days
Stonehenge, Salisbury - 1 day

I  can't wait to see them on the big computer screes since I have only seen most of them on the back of my camera.

Photos of the Work in the Fiber Group

I am late getting the photos in the Fiber Group but I knew you wanted to see them.

It just goes to show that I need to step up my game.

Big time.

Fiber Group July Post      Click Here

The Dog Who Saved A Ship

I realized that I had not posted some of the photos I wanted to post from the vacation.

Here is a lighthouse that keeps ships from crashing on the rocks at Rocky Harbor in Grand Morne National Park.  The Lobster Cove Lighthouse was built in Cowshead Bay. Rocky Harbor is located on a flat plain on the western edge of Newfoundland, near the entrance to Bonne Bay.  There are 119 shipwrecks  lining the harbor

submerged in the icy waters.  In 1919 , the SS Ethie sailed from Humbermouth and caught in a storm off Cowshead Point at Rocky Harbor.  The captain knew the ship was doomed so  he  chose to run the ship aground at the lighthouse point.

The Western Star reported about the dog in the December 17, 1919 edition:
"A line was fired from the ship, but got caught up amongst the boulders, so the people of Martin Point sent out one of their dogs, a very sagacious animal, to bring it ashore."

 This was a fabulous tree I found at the entrance to  Western Pond in Grand Morne Park.  Western Pond is an inland fjord.  It kills me every time Frank sayys ffjord, he  screws his mouth up and says: fwyierd.  It is hysterical.

 This is the view to Westrn Pond and of the tableland they call mountains.  The material is actually the earth's mantle that has been pushed up between the  ranges.

 It is a beautiful  place here in Canada.

 The waves are from the Atlantic Ocean into Cowshead Bay and Rocky Harbor in Newfoundland looking  to Labrador.