Time to Catch up...

Mercy, it has been almost a year and a half since I last updated this Blog...  So many incredible things have gone on in our lives the past year and a half...  We are starting to get excited about our trip to Australia...  We will arrive there on New Year's Eve morning 2011...  We will spend that evening celebrating New Year's Eve on one of the "Tall Ships" in Sydney Harbor watching the incredible Fireworks...  Then a few days later we board Holland America's ms Volendam Cruise-liner bound for Fiji, New Caledonia, Lautoka, lle des Pins and Noumea. The cruise departs from Sydney Harbor and lasts for 13 days...  Then when we return to Sydney we plan to spend the next 4 weeks driving up the golden and sunshine coasts to the barrier reef...  It should provide us with many awesome photo opportunities.  Stacey and I have been so busy with Ranch Projects that we have drifted away from our photography and are very much looking forward to getting back into it...  We will be trying out Canon's fairly new EOS 7D DSLR camera that also includes a video option which will be new for us but should come in handy when filming the fireworks and other ocean activities during our cruise and trip up the Australian coast...  Back at the Ranch we have added Peafowl, Guinea Hens, many Chickens and a Borzoi and Bernise Mountain Dog in addition to our Corgi, Shitzu and Pom...  We still have the two cats, Sissy and Clyde but they have taken residence at the barn where they have lots of mice to play with...  We are in the process of building a Boat Shop where our new Ranch Foreman Jeff Lund plans to build wooden drift boats for the Salmon River...  We added a wine cellar that is gorgeous thanks to the carpentry skills of Dallas...  My youngest son Matt worked at the Ranch this summer for almost 5 months and was very eager to get back to North Carolina...  That's all for the moment...  I'll try to do a little better job of updating the blog from time to time, especially with pics from our Australian trip...
Till then...  De