In a message dated 5/23/2005 9:22:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tedgrant@xxxxxxx writes: I, and I suppose we and the whole crew in many cases, don't always make a comment about their postings. But my goodness, they nearly always leave you with such a nice feeling about looking at photographs it's a joy. :-) And I would trust they both understand because we don't always comment, they look at it as... "No comment means it's a damn fine presentation!" ------------------------------------- Thanks so much Ted and Jim. As you may know from previous posts from me, the comments are nice, but the stroking is not why I post. One of the main reasons is so that my sweet Kathy will understand how important it is that I own all this Leica and now "Leica *ist ds camera gear. An interesting aside is that I also post my "Friday Flowers" to the Archives List. Amazing that I frequently get 1000 visits a week on my flowers, surpassing the visits my cheerleader shots garner each fall. Many of you may not know that I make my real living making antique photography available to researchers. Our fine archive has thousands of images from the very earliest days of photography to the present, documenting this region. We have pictures in several hundred books; a steady customer is "American Experience" at WGBH Boston. This is where I work: http://www.nsula.edu/watson_library/CGHRC.htm Finally, I want to say that some of my best friends have been made here, and Nathan is one I treasure. Someday we will meet is real time, and Jim and Ted, and many of the rest of you will be there. I hope we get the meeting here on earth, because I am not sure they allow 5 Leica M bodies in heaven...(Hmmm__maybe they allow more?) Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane égalité, liberté, crawfish ========================================================To Unsubscribe: Send email to leica-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. The acknowledgment that you then receive MUST be replied to per instructions. You may also log in to the Web interface to unsubscribe.