On July 4th, whilst waiting for it to get dark enough for the fireworks, I wandered over to the new Morgan Hill Skate Park, this time with my 35mm camera. I could have stayed for hours but the boys (and yes I think I only saw one girl actually skating- the rest were hangin' out with their boyfriends) stopped and asked me a couple of times why I was taking photos They relaxed when I said it was just for a photography project.




Having spent 4 hours in the emergency room last night with Dick, I am grateful that we have health insurance. It all started with a phone call from Dick saying he had fallen off his bicycle on his way home from work, and would I come and collect him as he was a 'bit banged up'? I rushed there and the first thing I saw was that I could hardly see his eyes- he was having a severe allergic reaction to something that was manifesting itself in his sinuses. All he could remember was having a huge sneezing fit after he 'woke up' having fell off his bike. 'Woke up'?? He couldn't remember hitting his head, although the scrape on the right side of his forehead showed he'd definitely banged his head. His first concern, naturally, was that the bike and his laptop were ok. However, we did not hang around to check them over, we just loaded them into the car- after he taken an anti-histamine that I always keep in my bag. For Dick to say he is hurting is unusual enough,...
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