Christmas Wishes 2007

Deinna & I wish you all a Merry Christmas.
May God bless you and yours this wonderful season.

A safe and prosperous New Year!

Thanksgiving Day Dancer Photo

Photos of the "The Gift of Dance" Liturgical Dance group. Pictured is Kathy Villalobos who is the founder and choreographer of the group. "The Gift of Dance" preformed at St Pius X of Jamul on Thanksgiving Day.

Send me an email if you would like to contact the group. I will forward it to them.

Photo from Gallup- Finding your place

I travel and see trees growing in the strangest places, and wonder how and why they grow where they do. So this is the first of what I call "Finding your Place". Believing that we all have "Our Place" the secret is finding it. This is a photograph taken in Gallup New Mexico along the road to Church Rock.

Cafe of the past

More from Barstow CA.

On our visit to Yermo and Barstow we stop at many of the ghost buildings from the past. The cafe has been closed quite a while.

The fries are real. After photographing the cafe up close I took one last look around the parking lot before I left. I spotted the discarded fast food box. The irony of the fresh trash at this lonely place closed years ago . (Don't get me started on people trashing this beautiful country). Look for this on your way to Las Vegas it's near the agriculture check point, on Yermo Road the south side of RT 15.

Photoshop CS3 Update

Adobe has announced a printing fix for CS3. Check out the details and download the update at John Nack's blog HERE.

You can read about the update HERE.

Firestorm 2007 Firefighters Thank You

Returning Home
Friday, 26 October 2007

The mailbox was "tagged" yellow by the firefighters meaning we had evacuated.

"Red" meant that people were still in there home.
_______________________________________________________

The sky began to look a lot better to the east. The Harris fire was still burning but we could not see the smoke.

____________________________________________________
















Later Sunday it rained an unmeasurable amount for 10 seconds. This was the result. It gave us hope that things were improving.

_____________________________________________________



















As we neared home on Highway 94 our neighbors were praising all who came and saved our community.

Thanks to the Firestorm 2007 Volunteers

It's rare when someone comes in contact with a total stranger and feels an instant bond. Here's how it happened to us.

First, THANK YOU Kent, and all the other angels for your support and personal sacrifices!

Deinna & Lou received this email from one who volunteered.

Hello Lou,

My name is Kent Delperdang and I was one of the individuals asked to set up the donation collection and distribution site in the A3 section of the Qualcomm parking lot. I am the guy in the yellow hat in the picture on your blog.

First I want to thank you for posting this picture! I was called at 10:40 pm and asked to drive from central California to help with this project. I just threw a few things in the car and hit the road as it is a 5-6 hour drive depending on traffic and I did not bring any camera or video equipment. Your picture captures the very beginning of our efforts. (The trash truck was dead and in a bad spot - a detail I would have forgotten without your picture.)

While this week has been an exhausting and grueling experience it has also been one of the most rewarding of my life. It was a blessing to work with so many dedicated volunteers and to see the over-whelming generosity of the people of San Diego. Knowing that we were helping people be as comfortable as possible made all the hard work simply enjoyable. I hope there is never another crisis that requires this effort but I would volunteer in a heartbeat if the need arises again.

I am hoping you may have other pictures you would be willing to share with me from this part of the Qualcomm relief efforts. I plan to contact someone who should have pictures from Thursday but many of the wonderful volunteers that I worked beside on Tuesday and Wednesday were gone by then.

Again, I appreciate the picture you posted and wish you the best.

Sincerely,

Kent Delperdang