"Tom Callahan" wrote in
:

I personally still have a lot of trouble with the autofocus looking at
a twig or a leaf and ignoring the aircraft that dominates the
viewfinder. I get my fair share of branches and stuff like that.
Those shots are in alt.binaries.botany and I call myself Bob ^,,^
?when I post there....

~That~ explains the buxom 'flower child' at the door last evening...

Went to a Japanese New Year celebration today. The Matsuriza Taiko
Drummers from Epcot in Orlando were here again. I got lots of fotos
of Japanese in kimonos and fighting outfits (there were several
martial arts demonstrations). We have a fairly large concentration of
Japanese at the University of West Florida and the culture exchanges
are well done. Then we had the Big Dave pan pizza at Lillian's
Pizzaria on Perdido Key. If you went to school at Pensacola Naval Air
Station and didn't eat at Lillian's then your instructors were not
clued in, Tom

Quite a few Japanese students at one of our community colleges here in
Seattle, too. Always refreshingly polite. Will visit Lillian's the very
next time I get down there...

Bob ^,,^