I am going to close down this site. Yes. You read correctly. It costs too much and isn't worth the battle. I wasn't able to upload the retreat pictures to it the other day, and I can't ever upload anything from my dial up connection at home. It occasionally crashes my computer.

I uploaded all the 2008 retreat photos to my Facebook, so look for most of them there. In the meanwhile, here are some of my faves- assuming I can get them to upload individually.

 Rebecca G. decorated with clouds of shaving cream.

Beth giving Maria a dunking.

Mason, Jesse, and Josh getting fancy on the water slide.

Student worship at the Tuesday night session.

Praiseband members Elyse, Miles, and Andy.

Tree baptism for Keely and Sarah.

What's new:  I finally started uploading movies to UTube. Here are some of my creations :

A short movie starring Lucy:

My worship video using my photos and set to the song "Seasons" by Nicole Nordeman.

Cool, Huh?  There's an Iron Fist video on the Iron Fist page.

Here is a great invention that should make it's inventor some decent money:

TWIRL-A-SQUIRREL 

This is a video that contains a sequence ot photos showing the changing of the seasons from a single spot looking at the river over the course of a year. It is set to the music of Joy Williams "The Love of the Lord Endures".

Here's something for the Class of 2005: 

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Try this: http://www.widro.com/throwpaper.html

Or this: http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html 

Here's an interesting and unusual performance: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739710473912337648&q=chinese&pr=goog-sl

Have you ever had someone tell you that you look like a movie star? Upload your photo to this site and it will do a scientific comparison by measuring and matching your features to that of some movie star.  Just be prepared for a less-than-flattering outcome.  I look like Engelbert Humperdinck.  I tried a different photo I came out only slightly better as Susan Sontag.

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php?s=1&u=g0?=EN&restore

Here's a site where you can make a map of all the states you've visited.

http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedstates

This site has a lot of fun things to do with your digital photos.  It's run by one of my contacts at Flickr and it's safe.

http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/

First time visitors, if you have the time, could you please leave me a little note, even if it's just your first name, on the guestbook page.  I'm always wondering who's been here.  The list is growing.

                                                Thank you !

As of August 9, 2007 there have been 3429 visits to this site. Actually there were quite a few before that - over a thousand - but Ian played around with my site and gave me twenty-two thousand visitors, so now I have no idea how many visits there were before Feb. 2006.

I'm goin to re-set the counter at the beginning of the 07-08 school year.