Riga, Latvia - May 27, 2008

The architecture is preserved and is marvelous. My photos do not do justice to the beautiful city of Riga. You MUST go see! The band was playing in the town square to celebrate some notable occasion... my notes of the day are practically non-existant, sorry to say. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get photos and missed a lot of the information from our most excellent guide, Sylvia. The yellow tower is taken from inside our hotel room and is the last one of Riga. I have so many photos that it has been a daunting task to try to choose the best and tweak any that needed it. But here is a glimpse of Riga. Beautiful city. Must go back again. Farewell Riga!

At home things are pretty calm at the moment. The Victoria Grid Project is in my neighbourhood, so I even got out and shot a few and loaded 3, so far, to the Grid. We expect to have the carpet up the stairs, livingroom, dining room and hallway installed in about 4 weeks. We have paid Home Depot for it. Hope they have a good installer. We were completely spoiled by Wally from Hourigans. They are more expensive, though. Draperies are up and the bill is paid after discussion of it with Leigh from Pacific Blinds. Quite a hit. But on checking back to our verticals of 20 years ago and the ones today... just the verticals costs less this time. Its the valances and panels that have brought the price up. Ah well, its done. I have hung a few pictures in the guest room and moved the extra book case in there to contain blue glass and a few other knicknacks. I think these curtains in the library and the guest room make the walls look muddy. I should have insisted on a solid color. Well, maybe when the green carpet is down it will harmonize with the gold in the stripes of the curtains.

I have been spending a bit of time on the new site. Man, that place is going to be terrific. Its a huge site and they are really getting a lot done lately. Can't wait until its done and Cyrus gets his just reward for all his hard work. Brilliant designer and a good internet friend.

Look UP Victoria

Look up, Victoria

These are photos from the day I spent downtown. I tweaked these and loaded them to my Flickr account. I have a lot more to do and load there yet. I really like how these turned out.

On Saturday we were to see the Lipizzan Stallions at the arena. We did not have very good seats as we were to the end of where they were preforming. I have tons of photos from that day, also. I have 3 of them with the noise removed and ten more to do yet.

Cyrus's new Megashot site is looking really good. They now have the 'invite only' feature in place... anyone will be able to apply and be added, if the Admins think they want them. Only people interested in critiques and improving our photography need apply. Cyrus has had great success on Pbase and just yesterday one of his photos made it to the top of Flickr's list. The site is at http://www.megashot.net Hope you have time to have a look.

Today I found a little beehive on my deck. By noon there was a wasp on it. I have a whole bunch of photos of this from today. So, I have much to do with my photos right now.