here are all of my sets - that I have taken - if I shake my friends online at flickr realize I shake, so we call them fuzzy photos- creative blurr...
get involved in life - do not waste anymore drops of energy,
eat green foods and salmon - praise God and be happy in the now,
it is hard but I know whatever you have been blessed with to do - do it
here are all my sets of photos
Mademoiselle L


http://flickr.com/photos/soloflight/sets/ - all photos have been taken by a PD patient -moi /aka me / tenalouise
[sidenote]
dear Ryan please call me - love mom

Those fanciful, floating, wonders that hang over the crib but all grown up. Got 'em all over the house and hanging in the trees outside. They relax like a fish tank does.

tena-
they are wondeful!

Tena,

I seem to get involved in OTHER people's problems ... whether that's just sitting in my kitchen with them, letting them vent, or taking them out for coffee. When I focus on others, it puts in perspective what I'm going through and makes me focus on the GOOD things that I have in my life compared to what I don't. In other words, the glass quickly becomes half full.

Terri .... I'M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have bought a bunch of toys recently, including a replacement for my old large film slr

Cannon A720IS -discontiued so it was cheaper, viewfinder and LCD cause old habits die hard, compact but still with some grip to hold onto yet still small , 6x zoom to partially make up for all the old lenses, and ..............Image Stabilization which I hope makes up for the parkie shake!

Now to try it for something other than online auction items but Tena you wont have much competion from me.

take care ,,, ken

I've taken photos too, but their nothing for us to shake at stick at. My real hobby is model railroading which is now virtual because I was dropping too many small parts and the locomotives cost way too much to end up on the floor.

My virtual model railroad is done with Trainz2006 see www.auran.com.
The route is over 120 miles long counting the branchlines and is mostly landscaped. When I'm not using the Surveyor module to put down buildings, water, factories, track and trees, I'm in the Driver module driving and riding along my route. It's quite a treat to see the landscape float by while sitting in a passenger car, or driving a small local freight while the computer is driving the passenger special on the nearby mainline. This is totally addictive at $29.00 plus $20.00 per year for fast download speed. The program is addicting.

John

John, I am involved in MR as well. Picked up a Digitrack Zepher and before the dollar (C$) dropped a Lionel HO Union Pacific Turbine to experiment with. My plan is to create an around the room modular shelf layout but am busy with scanning family history, converting old video tapes to DVD, digitizing slides, learning to use the new toys etc. Think I will try virtual - what happened to the MS version?

Can your layout be viewed by others?

Off to sell an aquarium setup - one less hobby and a lot of stuff.

take care ,,, ken

That's some nice rolling stock, Ken. Your idea of an around the room shelf layout sounds nice. They can be very time consuming and expensive because the cost of the locomotives is so expensive now. The program is unlimited. You can build huge layouts (routes) without spending anything more than you do for the initial program, and much of the content including rollingstock is free.

There are rumors, whether these are true or not, that say that people have ended up in divorce courts because the neglect the spouse and play with their Trainz instead.

I am/was an N-Scaler so my stuff is a bit smaller. There was nothing like dropping to the cement floor a $250 locomotive I just purchased. When I did that, I gave up on the layout. Back in 2002/2003, I started to have very unsteady hands and kept dropping little springs and things on the floor. I also noticed that I couldn't paint models very well either. One part would be okay, but another part was sloppy. I was losing my fine motor control and didn't realize what was going on.

Anyway, the MS version was more of a driver program. There was a route developer for it, but it was really complicated to use. There's a new version coming sometime when, but there's no official release date. KRS is out now, but it has a lot to be desired. Many TRS users went to KRS only to return very quickly because it kept crashing and was also very difficult to use.

Trainz TRS2006 is really easy to use. The Surveyor module is the easiest out there and the company has won awards for this reason. Laying track is as simple as stretching a spline from one point to another. Turnouts appear automatically at a spline point when you connect tracks. There are also "fixed" track turnouts that are more detailed if you want. Placing buildings and other objects is only a matter of clicking on the item on the list then clicking the + and placing it where you want it. You want a hill? No problem, sculpt and pull it up out of the baseboard up to 3000 m if you want. The same with valleys and gorges. Use the landscape tools to create whatever you wish, and you can even import grayscale images.

Yes you can share the layout with others. Auran runs what is known as the Download Station. This is where the $20.00 a year comes in because the default download speed is in the kilobytes instead of the hundreds of k-bytes with an FCT or First Class Ticket.

There are nearly 100,000 objects to download. They range from super terrific to mediocre and are made by the user community. If you desire, you can upload your route when it's finished so that the other users can download it. In addition if you like someone elses route a lot, you can modify it and even merge it into your route. Then with their permission upload the modified route again.

The program is quite customizable. There are so many aspect of it from content creation and scripting (Java-like program) to just driving the layouts. I spend most of my time in Surveyor with a little time spent in Driver to enjoy my route and those of others that I have downloaded.

John

our talents challenge our minds & and help our brain function...
so find something fun you enjoy -and you will be happy!

one of my photos of a vase of purple wax flowers

http://flickr.com/photos/soloflight/2968018254/

Hellen Keller
Albert Einstein
Claude Monet -famous painter
his painting was abit of a gift and talent -read his story
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Biography: Claude Monet

The French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the seminal figure in the evolution of impressionism, a pivotal style in the development of modern art.

The second half of the 19th century witnessed profound and disrupting shifts within the larger course of Western art. Many artistic attitudes which had prevailed since the beginning of the Renaissance gave way to approaches which differed radically from the practices of the Old Masters. In painting, for instance, illusionism was one of the fundamental Renaissance values: paintings were regarded as windows through which one viewed the natural world. But in the 19th century a new approach gradually replaced the illusionist aim: paintings became increasingly two-dimensional, openly declaring flatness as an intrinsic feature of their identity. They became events in themselves, phenomena to be confronted rather than windows to be seen through.

Impressionism occupies a crucial, yet paradoxical, position in the 19th century's changing interpretation of the painting enterprise. In the hands of Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and others, the new style (it was not called impressionism until 1874) was initially conceived in the spirit of illusionism. As it evolved, however, certain of its tenets emerged as being, in effect, anti-illusionist. Monet's art reveals both the complexities and the paradoxes of this historical phenomenon. In addition, it reveals how impressionism constitutes a turning point in the development of modern art.

Monet was born in Paris on Nov. 14, 1840. In 1845 his family moved to Le Havre, and by the time he was 15 Monet had developed a local reputation as a caricaturist. Through an exhibition of his caricatures in 1858 Monet met Eugène Boudin, a landscape painter who exerted a profound influence on the young artist. Boudin introduced Monet to outdoor painting, an activity which he entered reluctantly but which soon became the basis for his life's work.

By 1859 Monet was determined to pursue an artistic career. He visited Paris and was impressed by the paintings of Eugène Delacroix, Charles Daubigny, and Camille Corot. Against his parents' wishes, Monet decided to stay in Paris. He worked at the free Académie Suisse, where he met Pissarro, and he frequented the Brasserie des Martyrs, a gathering place for Gustave Courbet and other realists who constituted the vanguard of French painting in the 1850s.

http://www.answers.com/topic/claude-monet
this has his painting and story too!
http://www.artnewsblog.com/2008/10/c...ionists-in.htm
Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows" Claude Monet Quote