Been gone for a few days. The random hair growth, lol!!! Sorry Franklin, the wrong Winter Park I guess. I remeber when I lived in the NC, the pickup truck, the monster trucks rather. The Dixie flags of rebellion, mor than scary stuff no matter how it is justified. My husband has the flu too, I hope all who get it get over it quickly. It looks so miserable.

I used to do the picture a day deal, and now i find myself too busy to take what? -a couple of minutes to snap a shot. How lame is that! I think my problem is that I feel I must set up everything or really look for just the right shot. Again lame excuse. I am going to try to start with just one a week again, work my way up, because I think it is a great exercise to keep the creative juices flowing.

Yeah, I was more artistic for the first three weeks or so. Then it is "just give me something to take a picture of!"

Now I fluctuate between being creative and just doing it out of duty.

Yah! lol I think that it has to be a fluctuation!

I would love to visit the states one day you know. Mind you theres loads of places I have still to visit - doubt I will get time. any of you Americans paid a visit to England? What did you think - too cold!

I visited England about ten years ago I loved it. Sommerset, Bath, Windsor. Those were the place we went. I was there for about two and a half weeks. The people were really nice. Before I went everyone kept telling us that the food was horrible. I went to the local pubs and eateries an I loved the food. Well not so much on the blood sausage. But every thing else was good!

I would love to visit the states one day you know. Mind you theres loads of places I have still to visit - doubt I will get time. any of you Americans paid a visit to England? What did you think - too cold! - Harry O'Connor

Go to a McDonald's in London, Harry, and save yourself on airfare. The U.S. has turned into one giant stripmall. Plastic as far as the eye can see.

That England you're referring to, is it the one where chimney sweeps break out into song and dance upon your roof, orphaned waifs beg for more porridge, Mary Poppins hovers about with the aid of a magical umbrella and mop-topped boy bands sing about psychedelic mod experiences?

Nope, never been there. But we get Are You Being Served? on the telly, so we keep up on current events over there.

There are a few things here in U.S. that everyone should see if they get the chance,
for example...
The Rocky Mountains...The Royal Gorge...The painted desert...are a few

But as far as the cities go Joseph has a point, the U.S. is looking like one big strip mall. In the 11 years I was in Architecture I did my share and help design quite a few strip malls. Thats one reason I have changed careers.

All that aside, I hope to get to the U.K. and see some of sites I have wanted to see.

Yeah there are some really cool things to see in the good old USA. snorkeling in the keys, hiking in the rockies, and Seattle is beautiful. Like the other two gents said, the cities re tedious, but the great open spaces here are wonderful. Also, there is culture here if you look for it. It's not all rednecks and bible thumpers!!!

i went to California about ten years ago and loved it! Beautiful beaches, fab weather, enormous cakes, friendly people, yeah really would like to visit again some time.
While there I did meet some people who's idea of England was some sort of 19th centuary London full of smogs (cor guv, its a right pea-souper, an no mistake") and Sherlock Holmes dashing about in orse drawn cabs!

Heh, well ya gotta admit there are a few villages like that over there still. At least there were a few years ago. but all the cities and towns of any size were quite modern. The thing about it though is seeing buildings that are 100+ years old and still being used almost everywhere you go is awesome. Our culture over here is so disposable it is sickening. We build nothing of value so we value nothing accordingly.
I also spent three and a half weeks in Germany. There were cute little villages and towns everywhere. It was cool. My girlfriend at the times parents lived in a little town and there were wine casks set in the walls throughout the town for the local wine tasting festival. It was very cool.
I want to make it back to Europe in the next couple of years. I'd like to see how much it has changed. I hope not too much.

A funny thing doing the photo 365 has taught me is that sometimes the less you think about a piece the better it can be. I have taken a month and a halves worth of pictures. Sometimes the ones where I go, "look that is interesting" snap! are the ones that turnout to be really cool. I can sit and plan, and work out angles and light and all that and still not get as close to that other moment of seeing.

II grew up in Europe for 6 years, and it seems we went everywhere but England. The last time my folks were there (I was in college) they went to London. I am hoping to one get to see England, Scotland (is that now considered part of the UK?), and Ireland (the place of my ancestors -on one side anyway). I dont mind the cold, but about this time of year I tend to be missing warmer weather to. We have had a dreary winter here in Colorado, but today it is 50 degrees and sunny. Cant ask for more than that!

i haven't been to europe, let alone england since. . .
well, it's been a long time. but if all goes well and the gods have their way, it seems like a good enough honeymoon location. and it's even money we'll be paying a visit to hereford.

Hi folks im back been offline for a while;
Well Art if you visit Hereford and Worcester you will have wonderfull time. Beautiful typical English countryside with wonderful buildings and archtecture in the towns and villages.
If you like a nightlife it is there if you look.
Hope you make it enjoy
lets us know and maybe we can help or just go on magically mystery tour.

'Nope, never been there. But we get Are You Being Served? on the telly, so we keep up on current events over there.'

Joseph you are joking again; you really do make me smile,

A good way to tell if the British import show on PBS is way too old, is if everyone is dressed like an extra from A Clockwork Orange. They run those series to death here.

Do you get any new stuff like:
Peep-Show or Black Books(ok, that one is'nt so new) or, The Mighty Boosh? Dr Who?

We get loads of American TV here, really good stuff some of it. I like ER, Simpsons, Smallville (yes..really)CSI, oh and loads more I can't remember.
US tv seems very slick and well done, although i suspect we are only seeing the cream.

I keep spotting English actors more and more in US telly, Hugh Lauie in House, (ropey accent) nah he will always be Bertie Wooster to me.

Do you get any new stuff like:
Peep-Show or Black Books(ok, that one is'nt so new) or, The Mighty Boosh? Dr Who?

We get loads of American TV here, really good stuff some of it. I like ER, Simpsons, Smallville (yes..really)CSI, oh and loads more I can't remember.
US tv seems very slick and well done, although i suspect we are only seeing the cream.

I keep spotting English actors more and more in US telly, Hugh Lauie in House, (ropey accent) nah he will always be Bertie Wooster to me. - Tracey Long

I hear about The Mighty Boosh a lot, but have never seen it. I don't know if it's made it over here yet(probably in 20 years, when it's no longer topical). The problem with American- Foreign market television program exchange, is the same as with the film market. Our stuff goes over there fairly quickly, but your stuff doesn't get here for an eternity(sometimes not at all). I'm still waiting for DVD release of films I saw in the Sixties and Seventies, and I'm not talking about small obscure art films by unknowns, but films that were fairly major for their time(Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black, various films by Ken Russell, Fritz Lang, Akira Kurosawa etc. )Some actors and directors are well known world-wide, except the States. I can see why this imbalance got the French all pissy, a few years back.

Television shows, here, had to step it up a notch, production-wise, because they were getting too much competition from cable and film. And we seem to have more Brits and Canadians acting, probably because most American stars suck, or are too old. I mean, if I have a choice between Russell Crowe and another damn Nicholas Cage dud, I'm going with the Aussie who can act.

The only one I recognize is Dr Who. I watched Dr Who like 25 years ago when Tom Baker was the good Dr. The rest I haven't heard of. We get two British channels on cable where I live. I think one is just BBC news, the other has regular type programming. The only two shows I can stomach in American TV in the last 10 years is Firefly... now cancelled... and The Office. I have not seen the original B rit Office yet however I do understand that it is much more uncomfortable to watch.

Yea, we get Red Dwarf, Who, that thing with Mrs. Bucket and some Black Adder, but it's really gotten tedious. And PBS always has their hand out for more money, to show more repeats and dinosaur shows.

On the movie remark I made earlier, I just purchased Alejandro Jodorowski's surrealist trilogy containing El Topo and The Magic Mountain. I saw them in the theatre on initial release.........in 1972. And they've just been released on DVD.