Rabbits destroyed my first year cantaloupe crop and intended Pretty Flowers Row, along with ravaging my then pair of young apricot trees. This album shows what I found it necessary to do about the rabbit problem. Cause of death for those no longer able to destroy plant life was exposure in an unshaded wire cage to the brutal desert sun which contains, dangerous to humans too, high levels of infrared light.

practical things some guys I know are doing toward feeding the hungry

my response to an illegal telemarketing call with details of how to use the national Do Not Call Registry

Samples of the use of digital software technology (AttaBaby a/k/a Adobe PhotoShop v7.0) to correct common photographic problems together with notes on what I did to accomplish my objectives with each original. The "dark side" of those and some related systems and techniques is also discussed

the things I have used to record images and process them during the more than fifty years of my photographic hobby. Revised and updated version including screen shots and discussion of a marvelous new software just recently installed and of a replacement scanner which came with a much improved software

sadness about software changes to the contrary notwithstanding, a few of my pretty and interesting albums remain online for public viewing

The Wall Street Journal has warned about unattractive characteristics of those who free ride on the railroads these days. The companies have beefed up security massively in recent years. Yet the graffiti continues to appear. These are some samples recorded on an ultra long freight train rumbling across the Mojave Desert between Cima and Kelso California 061208 together with discussion of far more malicious graffiti being inflicted by Fotki as of 061219 (at least temporarily painted out by me as of 061223)