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Raw photos converted to jpeg with free photo scape.  glad I saved the unadulterated  ones.  Seems to lose a little but at least I could work with them with my old Elements 3.  I think it was about 10 degrees when I took these.  I saw the results when a friend edited them with his new lightroom 2 and there is a HUGE difference.  I would love to talk him into pronting them up as he just bought the new epson artisan 800.  My old HP just doenst give the right color mix anymore.  But that is what the online services like shutterfly is for!.  Think I may upload 1 or 2 of these to see what they look like on the large scale.

Action at the Dog park.  They love the snow!

and a final one from the Christmas Elf himself...

Merry Christmas to all!

Kalona Cheese Factory, detour off I-80 on the way to Mom Maintenance

at the quick mart,, he wasnt buying gas!

and then out of town.(Kalona is a Mennonite community)

past family farms

to Riverside, future birthplace of Captain Kirk(note banner)

three eras of transport

and back to the fast lane of the 4 lane, and on to deliver the cheese!

I used a free downloadable photo editor to crop and do a little editing.  PHOTOSCAPE.  Not Photoshop but pretty good for my new mini laptop, an acer 8.9 inch perfect for travel.  It even can work with raw files.  read the reviews on cnet.  Free is always good, Right?  Still working mostly with Jpegs but will move on soon, I hope.  Happy Thanksgiving, all!

  Kelbsiella

Just wanted to do a different K picture, not great quality cause it was taken at work with my cell phone but hope this would fit in the unusual category.  This is a shot of a urine culture in which the person definitly had a problem!  There are salts and sugars in the agar(jelly like stuff) that turn pink if the bacteria uses them for fermentation.  way too much info but here is my 2nd K.