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If you've been a reader of this blog for any time at all, you'll have seen me mention my friend Paul Moor, whom I have known now since the early 1990s, almost 15 years. 

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Originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.

This is one of a number of outstanding pictures Mike got during his recent trip to the Grand Canyon. I particularly like this one, when viewed in a larger resolution (which you can do on his Flickr site). If you haven't yet checked out this series of photographs, I recommend it highly. You can click on any individual picture there and once the somewhat larger thumbnail of it is displayed, you'll find an «all sizes» link above it. Clicking that will display the picture in a large size, and quite a few of them deserve to be seen that way.

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On Monday, October 2, I left town to visit my family in Georgia for a couple of days, but the two-day visit I had planned originally turned into a four-day visit, and I didn't get back to Knoxville until Friday around noon.  That's why there were no blog posts last week.  I thought about announcing this visit in advance but I generally don't want to make it known that I am out of town for home security reasons.

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After three days of near continuous effort, I've uploaded 198 pictures of the Alaska trip to my Flickr site, beginning with this one. If you'll click on the next picture (for instance the one of Carole that is over at the right) that will reveal the next photo and its associated narrative. You can proceed like that throughout the series.

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I've spent most of today uploading some of the photos to my Flickr site from my Alaska cruise. At this point, I have uploaded 78 photos of the first 307 I've reviewed, out of a total of 954 pictures that I took. I've reached the point of satiation, so I'll return to this activity tomorrow and see if I can't complete uploading the pictures. Once that is done, I'll come back to the task and write about the experience. But for now, I'm pooped. More later.

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I'll be spending a good deal of today going through the 963 pictures I took during my Alaskan cruise vacation to see which of them deserve to be uploaded to my Flickr site. Adjustments (to lighting, cropping, etc.) are needed before I can begin to decide about what to include and what to exclude. I will have to say though that I was pleased that as many of them turned out well as they did. Certainly the scenery there is worthy of photographing and whether or not my pictures do it justice, starting with a great subject sure helps.

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I've finally returned to my home in Knoxville.

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Today Carole and I board a train for the trip from Denali National Park to Anchorage.  We'll spend one night there before returning by plane to Atlanta tomorrow.  While the trip to Alaska has been wonderful, it will be good to get back home again as it always is after a vacation.  Next post here will probably be from Carole's house in Lula, GA, and it will probably be on Tuesday morning.  Talk to you then.

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I am writing this from an Internet cafe in the Denali National Park, an awesome site to visit by the way, and this the first entry I've been able to make since the 17th of May because Internet access has been both slow and costly.  Aboard ship, the connection speed was 110 Kbps maximum (about twice the speed of a 56 Kbps modem) and the cost was $0.75 per minute. My itinerary didn't permit me to locate shore-based Internet access, so I have been suffering withdrawal symptoms for the last week.  Though I have felt out of touch, it is good to take a break from being so constantly on the Internet.  Normal posting will begin again soon, once I have returned to my home and the comfort of my own computing system.  I have taken a large number of pictures (more than 500) and I'll be posting some of those to Flickr once I've been able to go through them and cull the wheat from the chaff.   

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