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By Dawn Natelle
Chapter 15
So far: Two new characters are introduced and their backgrounds explored, along with their odyssey to the river. Now they have met River and are invited into the water.
River welcomed the new people into the river. Nick was hesitant, knowing how cold the water could be, but Carla immediately smiled at River's soft voice, and entered the water. Nick followed, and they waded out to the deeper part of the river. Nick was astounded how warm the water was, especially around River.
The instant the two were in the water, the river fed their stories to River, and she immediately knew how to deal with each of them. First was the traditional song of the history of the people, and as she sang that, the river taught them the language. As in the past, at first the river merely translated what River was singing, but gradually that expanded into a full understanding of the language. By the end of the song all three were talking only in Ojibwe.
"That is so cool," Carla said. "I never knew so much about our people. It makes me proud to be Ojibwe."
"It was meant to," River said. "Too many of our people feel the negative auras thrust on them by others. Instead we need to feel the positive auras of Manitou, the animals, and the plants -- the whole earth that we are a part of. When we do that we don't do terrible things like suicides."
"I … I was …" Carla choked up trying to tell River that she had been trying to do just such a thing yesterday. River stepped forward and embraced the girl, who immediately calmed in the rivertalker's grasp.
"I know dear," she said. "You don't have to speak of that ever again. It is over. The bad times are over. You are now one of the people of the river, and it will sustain you and nurture you. You, in particular, will be spending a lot of time in the river over the next few years. Usually with me, but occasionally alone. You have special needs that the river will help you with."
She turned to Nick, while still holding Carla. "You are a good man for taking in this poor girl, and treating her as she needed to be treated, and becoming a brother to her. All the people are brother and sisters, but your relationship will be more. Your parents will accept her as she is, and as she is going to be. She will join your family, and leave the hatred of her first father behind. The river knows that you are a good man, and will reward you in some way.
The three spent hours in the river, until the early light of pre-dawn started to appear. Carla was surprised that River was the same age as her, and they would be attending high school together. Nick was surprised to learn that River had begged for a lawyer for the community yesterday. He realized that it was at about the same time that he had gotten into his car to drive away from Gloria. Was there a connection there? His legal mind discounted the thought that river magic might have been involved, but River was less sure.
River mentioned some of the legal issues that were happening. The houses her father was building were going to need a lawyer to handle the sales; she wanted advice in getting Makizins trademarked; as well as the myriad of issues involved in setting up businesses both on the ground and online. She asked him to accompany her to town later, to visit some of the businesses.
Eventually they got out of the river, and Nick was amazed to find that he towered over the others. He had never stood beside River, but he was now much taller than he had been, compared to Carla. At first he thought it was just she who had changed. She was much shorter, and thinner, and the frumpy dress she had stolen from her mother had changed into a traditional First Nations costume, similar to River's. He was amazed. She no longer looked like a 14-year-old boy in a dress, but like an 11-year-old girl. Her hair was three or so inches longer, and in a cute feminine style. Her thinner, smaller face had wide expressive eyes and a tiny nose. Her torso was no longer thick and muscular, but thin and dainty, with just nubs of breasts showing through her thin cotton blouse. Her waist was thin, and while she didn't have much hip, there was just the start of development there. She was also several inches shorter than she had been.
"You are so tall now," she said to Nick, and then paused as she heard her high-pitched feminine voice. It was higher than it had ever been, even as a young boy. Certainly much higher than the male voice puberty had cursed her with over the past year.
"I am taller," Nick said. "But you, little sister, are beautiful."
"I am?" Carla wondered.
"Yes," River said. "Our river is known for giving gifts to the people who deserve them. In your cases, it took some of Carla's maleness, and gave it to Nick. Your height, your build, and something special. Even your suit is mended, and resized to fit your new body."
"Am I a girl?" Carla squealed, touching her fledgling breasts. Her hand then slipped down the waist of her skirt. "No, still a boy," she said sadly. "But it is much smaller than it was. Like when I was a little boy." She turned to River. "Why didn't it make me a girl?"
"The river hesitates in giving too much of a gift," she said. "In your case, you are still young. You now look like a girl, and can easily hide that bit that isn't. What's more, the river will give you more in time. A lot soon, in fact. Right now you look like an 11 or 12-year-old. Later this week we will come back to the river, and it will help you move along, once you are comfortable with your new body. It will make you a bit bigger and increase your breasts a bit. You will probably look 13. Then, just before school, you will get another treatment, and look 14 like the rest of us."
"I want to be a girl now, though," she whined.
"You are not ready," River explained. "The biggest part of the gift of the river is that you will no longer be going through male puberty. Instead, you will go into the river at least once a month, and you will go through female puberty. Eventually when the river deems you ready, it will make the final changes. Or not. You might decide later that being a boy was better, and the river will take you back down that route. It will be your choice, and the river's decision."
"I'm not going to want to be an icky boy," Carla protested.
"Then wait. You will grow up into a girl. We both will," River said.
"Hah, you don't know what it was like to be a boy," Carla said.
"Actually I do," River explained. "Two weeks ago I was a boy, and happy as one. But the river had need of me, and changed me. Not all at once, but a little bit each day until I looked like this. Now I am happy as a girl."
Carla's eyes went wide. Just then Nick came back from a short walk. He was nearly 6 foot [feet?] tall now, and considerably huskier than he had been. His build now was much like Wayne's. His face was a bit red, and River decided that she knew why.
"You have discovered the other change," she asked shyly. Nick just nodded.
"It is a huge difference going from one inch smaller than normal to one inch bigger than normal," she said, getting a bit red herself talking about Nick's new endowment. "There is one warning the river wants me to give you. You are not to go into 'super stud' mode with it. It is meant for one special mate, not just for your own pleasure. There are a lot of single girls on the reserve, and you can date as many as you need to in order to find what you need. You are now tall, handsome, muscular, well endowed, and a lawyer to boot. You will have no trouble finding a girl. Just don't let any of them throw themselves at you. If you have sex with any of them, she will be your mate for life. The river will ensure it."
Nick nodded. "I messed up once. I thank the river for what it has given me, and for this constraint that will make me make use it well."
After this somewhat uncomfortable discussion, the three all walked towards Nick's car. He drove it towards his parents' home, located near the Stormcloud home. As they neared the house, a small, neat bungalow that was much nicer looking than many of the other reserve homes, River thought she saw a curtain at one of the windows move. Someone was awake, even at this early hour. A moment later the door to the house opened and a stout woman stepped out.
It took several minutes after Nick and the two girls got out of the car before recognition enveloped her face. "Nicky? Nicky! It's my little Nicky," she cried as she ran up to him, enveloping him in her mass.
"I'm home Momma," he said, hugging her back just as fiercely as she was hugging him. A short, muscular man came to the door next. River thought she recognized him from the various ceremonies of the past few weeks, but the next face she saw was one she knew. It was Ria, Rod's girlfriend.
"River," she exclaimed, coming and hugging the girl. "How did you wind up with this miscreant?"
"Ria," Nick said. "You are all grown up. I think you were about 10 the last time I saw you."
"You are bigger too," Nick's dad said. River could see the resemblance between the two men, although Carter Summerstorm was several inches shorter than Nick, closer to the size he had been before entering the river.
Leeann, his wife, started to urge everyone inside when Nick realized that Carla had not been identified, and looked a bit like a rabbit, ready to bolt at any second. "This is Carla, my new sister," Nick announced.
"I have a sister?" squealed Ria, and she broke free from River to embrace the younger girl.
"Welcome to our family," Carter said. "I hope this means that we will see more of young Nick now."
"Yes, Papa, I am planning to stay in the area. River says there will be a bit of law work in town as things go along, and as soon as I can get my house in Toronto sold, I will start looking for a place around here."
"You will not," Leeann said. "You will stay in your own room, at least until you find a wife up here. And sweetheart, we will build a room for you too. Such a pretty young thing."
"She can stay in my room, Momma," Ria said. "I will be travelling a lot with Rod over the next few months, and when I'm home we can share. It is what sisters do. Is that all right with you, Carla?"
Carla nodded shyly. She was amazed at the reaction of this family to her, and to Nick, coming home after nearly 10 years away. They had given her more love and attention in five minutes than she had felt from her original family in five years. They went in and joined the family for breakfast, with Nick, River and Carla eating sparsely, since they had been nourished by the river.
Later Nick had to take Carter out to see the BMW, and let his father take it for a short spin around the reserve. Nick noted that he planned to sell the car and get something more sensible, and Carter agreed that this would be a good idea. It would be hard to think of Nick as a local boy if he was driving around that car, and wearing suits that cost more than the average car on the reserve.
While they were out, and re-bonding as father and son, Nick realized that everything that he had been missing from his life was here on the reserve. He could hear the birds singing, and watched as chipmunks played on the side of the road. This definitely was not Toronto. He had lived that life, the life he thought he wanted, and found that what he had left behind was far, far more important. And the missions that River had explained to him earlier were so much more important than getting young hoodlums out of jail. She had a plan for the people: to make them self-sufficient, healthy, sober, and to end the cycle of despair that caused so much suicide amongst the youth of the people. How could he not want to be a part of that?
The women inside had been busy too. Leeann had found some of Ria's old clothes, and Carla had been thrilled as could be to perform a modelling show, trying things on. At first there had been a slight embarrassment about the slight nubbin that appeared in the girl's panties, but River explained that situation, and both Leeann and Ria had embraced that girl, and told her it made no difference to them. Again Carla was amazed at the acceptance she felt in this new house, which was feeling more and more like her home every minute.
"We will get you more things in town today," Leeann offered.
"Not too much," River warned. "Carla will go into the river again later this week, and she will definitely grow. Don't buy a lot of clothes that she will only be able to wear for a few days."
Leeann pouted: "You give me a new daughter, and then you tell me I can't spoil her. How unfair."
"You can spoil her next week," River laughed. "Although I did see some things in Ria's old things that will probably fit her next week, they are kind of out of style, and you can buy her some new things for school. She will be starting high school with me in September."
"High school," Ria exclaimed. "How can that be? She is so tiny. Surely she will take the bus to the elementary school in Terrace Bay."
"The river made her younger to start," River said. "She was much bigger before, and not as pretty as she is now. But by September, she will look ready for high school, although I think she may still be on the small size."
"That's okay," Leeann said. "All our family is small. Except Nick. Something in Toronto must have made him grow, because he was shorter and thinner the last time he was home."
"No, actually it was the river that did that," River said. "It took some of what Carla didn't need, and gave it to Nick."
It was just after 9 a.m. when the family piled into the car. Carter was not interested in shopping, so while Nick and River sat in the front seats, Ria, Carla, and Leeann climbed in the back of the classy automobile. Nick parked outside of the general store, and then he and River walked down the street.
Nelson Churchill was just opening his store, adding the float to his till, when the well-dressed couple walked in. He immediately recognized River as the young girl that was responsible for the sales in his store being down so much. Half of his First Nations customers had completely stopped coming in, and the others they were buying much less. A six pack instead of two cases of 24, or a small bottle of liquor instead of several large 40-ouncers. And she seemed to have brought a lawyer with him. The expensive suit just screamed 'lawyer', Nelson thought.
"What can I do for you?" he asked politely. After all, there was a chance that they were planning a party or something.
"I hope we can do something for each other," River said sweetly. "I understand that you have quite a bit of spare space in the other half of your building. I might be interested in it for a little store we are thinking about, to sell First Nations arts and crafts."
"Yeah, I have space," Nelson said, quickly calculating. If they were paying enough in rent, that might make up for the loss in profits from the liquor agency. "I can't just give it away, though. You can pay?"
"Yes, I'm quite certain we can pay," River promised. "Can we look the space over?"
Nelson got out a key, and then went over to the door in the temporary dividing wall he had built years before after he had bought the building from Northern Stores. His plan at the time was to rent out the other 4/5 of the building to tenants, but in nearly 20 years there was not one enquiry before now.
"I'm sorry I can't turn on the lights," Nelson said. "I disconnected them a few years back to cut down the property tax bill, since unused space is charged a lower rate. We can get them turned back on if we can make a deal."
"No problem," River said. "There is enough light coming in from the plate glass windows, although it would be more if the windows were cleaner." She looked around, and saw there was a space of about 250 feet by 100 feet, with Nelson's agency taking about 50 x 50 off of the one end. He had the other 50 feet behind his store for storage. There was a 25x100 foot storage area at the back of the store, with a loading ramp and a bit of parking. There was a large commercial door in the middle of the windows, and you could almost see where the old store shelving units had been. Sadly those were gone.
"Is the parking lot next door yours?" Nick asked.
"Yeah, not that it gets much use, being at the other end from my place," Nelson said. "Most everybody just parks on the street. I park behind my storeroom."
"It looks perfect," River said. "How much do you need for it?"
Nelson hesitated. Best to start high and work down. "$5000 a month, plus you pay utilities."
"I only saw one meter in the back," Nick said. "You will pay your own utilities?"
"No can do," Nick said. "Unless you want to bring in another utility account. Most of the power will be from this side, and even more for the heat and air."
Nick had thrown utilities into the discussion as an old lawyer trick, to give himself time to think about the price. He had been expecting that Nelson might ask for $10000 a month. In Toronto a space this size would be five times that much. But this wasn't Toronto.
While the men dickered over the price, River wandered throughout the building, mentally placing various crafts and artwork in various sections. She was pleased with the space. It was perhaps double what she needed, but that left lots of room for expansion and growth. She finally headed back to the men, who had worked out a price.
Nelson was a bit flummoxed. This man had the gift of gab, and had somehow worked out the lowest price that Nelson could live with, $1000 a month, and then wheedled him down to that amount, with Nelson paying the cost of separate utilities.
River listened as Nick explained the deal. She shook her head no. "$1400 a month, and we pay for all the utilities," she said, to Nick's surprise. "It is just a waste of money to have separate utilities put in, and that will cost Mr. Churchill his first month's rent, or maybe two."
"Deal," Nelson said quickly, and rushed forward to pump River's hand. With the savings in the utilities, he would gain $1600 a month, $400 a week. Just enough to offset the loss of sales from the liquor, if it doesn't bounce back when the natives decide they can't live without their drink.
"We will pay the first two months as a deposit," River added. "Then there will be no further payments until we open the doors, two or three months down the road, max."
Nelson hesitated, and then agreed. But River had one more condition.
"I also want to talk to the former tenant. I understand your ex-wife was manager of the store here. Do you have contact information for her? She can give me invaluable tips about the things that sold well in her store, when sales worked best, that kind of thing."
Nelson paused again. At least he was on good terms with his ex, although things had been quite rough in the first five years after they separated. But they never had actually divorced. Connie felt that leaving a divorce for later would prevent either of them from ever making a hasty mistake. Seven years ago Connie had started the process, but aborted it when she fell out with her new boyfriend. Nelson hadn't really dated since Connie left. He was sure that she would only tell River good things about him and the store, especially since the store would not be competing directly with the Northern Store in Terrace Bay. And that was largely moot, since her company, Hudson's Bay, no longer owned Northern Stores.
"Yes, I can give you her phone or email," Nelson said.
"Both please," River asked. The three all shook hands, and Nick and River left.
On the way back Nick was rather testy: "Why did you overpay? I had him down to $1000, with utilities out."
"I'm so glad you were able to do that," River said. "But he would have felt he had been fleeced if we got the rent for that. By offering a little more, we now have a partner, and not a competitor. He will be easier to get along with if we want to do special promotions and such. Did you see how he looked at me when we first got there?"
"Pure hatred," Nick said with a laugh. "He didn't look at me too friendly either."
"I don't like people not liking me," River said.
"He did look a lot friendlier when we left," Nick said.
"Just wait," River warned. "After I am finished with him, he will think I am the greatest thing since sliced bread."
The girls were done with their shopping, and even though she had only a few small bags, Carla was over the moon after her first time 'shopping with the girls.' Ria said they had her try on quite a few items that they didn't buy, and tried to make a start on developing the new girl's sense of style. Plans were made for a trip to the Sault one weekend in September for a more intensive girlification process.
Nick took the family back to the Summerstorm house. Ria promised to take Carla over to introduce her to Liesl at the nearby Stormcloud house. She would let Liesl know that River would not be needing her company today, and would let the girls play together. While Carla was actually 14, she looked 12 now, only slightly older than Liesl, and was much younger in terms of time she had spent as a girl. River felt confident that the two would bond.
River then imposed on Nick to be her taxi driver, and they headed back into town, parking in the hospital parking lot. Hospital Administrator, Desmond Kraud, happened to see the strange car pull into the lot, and like Nelson Churchill before him, he immediately decided Nick was a lawyer, or alternatively a civil servant from Toronto. And he had the Waters girl with him. Either way was trouble. The hospital could not afford a lawsuit. He tried to wrack his brain about the events the week before, to see if there was anything that they, or he, could be held liable for. Perhaps the doctor had gotten a bit wild, but he wasn't even here today. And if the man was from the Ministry of Health, it would be even worse. This could be the start of the end for the hospital.
"River Waters and Nick Summerstorm to see you," the receptionist buzzed him. After trying to consider whether hiding, fleeing, or jumping out of his second floor window would be useful, Desmond decided to man up and told the receptionist to send them up. He went to the door of his office. The hospital upper level was a warren of offices and storage rooms, and he wanted to see the two as they got off the elevator. He was a bit surprised when instead they entered from the stairs on the opposite side, but welcomed River and her guest into his office.
"Hello again, Desmond," River started. "I want to introduce you to Nick Summerstorm. He is a lawyer, but he is not with me on any legal matter. Think of him as an advisor."
Desmond visibly relaxed as he shook the hand of the larger man, clearly a native. "Nice to meet you, sir," Desmond said, turning to River. "How can I help you, Miss Waters?"
"To start with, you can call me River," she said with her disarming smile. "Is the doctor busy?"
"No. I'm sorry. Dr. Mitchell is in Sudbury today and tomorrow for some tests. Even doctors have to go to the doctor. We have a nurse practitioner looking after things today."
"I hope it is nothing serious," River said. "I wanted to apologize for the incident last week. Things got a bit out of hand, and some harsh words were spoken. I just wanted to let you two know that there are no hard feelings from our end, and that the people on the reserve are most supportive of the hospital. We will still want to explore our traditional healing methods, which of course do not always connect with your medical practices. All seven of your former patients are apparently doing quite well with their families, reconnecting and becoming useful elders in their household, if not the community in general."
"I'm glad to hear that," Desmond said. "We miss having them here. Not only because they were nice people, overall, but because they kept our numbers up. Coupled with the unexplained shortage of calls at the emergency last week, compared to other weekends after a welfare check comes out, we are down heavily for this month."
He then explained that the usage of the hospital was key to its remaining open. With another hospital just 30 miles down the road in Terrace Bay, the Ministry of Health was eager to consolidate services in only one location. Losing seven geriatric patients, and now a drop in emergency calls meant that the St. Mary's hospital was in danger.
"Hmmm," River pondered. "First, some bad news. I don't think that the drop in emergency calls will be temporary. The people of the reserve have decided to curtail their liquor consumption. That might explain a lot fewer drinking brawls or domestic incidents bringing our people to emergency."
"The good news is that I have some ideas that might help you out. As I said, the people really want to see the hospital survive. What if you were to hold special clinics every week or so. I'm thinking of a pre-natal program for expectant mothers; a diabetes and nutrition clinic, many of the people are overweight and could use a program to help them control their diet; maybe an open house here at the hospital to let people know what you offer. If you build programs like that, then I will let the people of the reserve know about them, and I'm sure you will get people to attend."
"Those are great ideas," Desmond said. "A bit of work to get everything ready but definitely a way to get our numbers up. There are several hundred families on the reserve, aren't there. If we could get a couple hundred visits each month, that could make up for most of the lost numbers from the geriatric department."
As Nick and River headed back to the car, Nick noted: "You have quite the way with you, River. That man was terrified of you when you came in, and when we left he was so pleased. Do you have the same effect on all the men in your life?"
"Uhh, no," River said. She saw Wayne driving by in the JR truck, and he was staring at Nick and River getting into the BMW. "In fact I just saw someone who might be upset to see me getting into a car with a man."
"Boyfriend?" Nick asked.
"No. This one fits into the 'it's complicated' status," River said. "I'll have to talk to him. Anyway, I need to see one more person, if you still have the time."
"Sure. I don't know why, but I'm not the least bit tired and I've been up for over 30 hours straight."
"Oh, that is the river. It nurtures you, and you don't need to eat or sleep after you spend a few hours in the water. I've only been sleeping about three hours a night since all this started," River said. "It gives me lots of time to spend with the river, to plan, and still have all the days open for other things."
"Sounds like it would be a perfect tool for lawyers," Nick said as he drove back out of town. "We never have enough hours in a day. So where do you want to go."
"I need to see Colin Redhawk. Do you know where his house is?"
"Redhawk? Yes, I know the house, although I don't know Colin. If he was young when I left …"
"Yeah, he is my age," River said. "But he is building our website and stuff, and I want you to be aware of what he is doing so that you can check out the legalities of stuff."
"No problem. We lawyers are really good with 'stuff'."
At the Redhawks', River found Colin was pretty hyper when his mom let them into his room.
"River! Oh my god. You have to see this." He typed on the keyboard and did some mouse things, and soon a picture of George and Kyle's totem pole created out of car parts appeared, with George in the picture adjusting something.
"That's a really good picture," River said.
"April brought it to me yesterday," Colin said. "I put it on Facebook, Pinterest, and e-Bay and a video clip of it on YouTube. It's gone viral." He pointed to a small number at the bottom of the screen that said 13,450,832 likes. "See?"
"Is that good?" River said.
"For less than a full day? It's phenomenal. Look." More keystrokes and a different page appeared, again with the same picture. As it came up, River heard Nick gasp.
"Is that what I think it is?" he asked.
"Yep," Colin smiled smugly. "When I posted to eBay last night there were dozens of bidders when the price was at a few hundred dollars. But now there are just five guys bidding. Look at where it is at." He pointed.
"$103,500," River read aloud. "Is that what they want to pay for it?"
"So far," Colin said. "The bids keep going up. I set it to expire at midnight tomorrow. And I'm pretty sure these are legit bids. At least the four that have been in contact with me asking about the statue. There is a body shop in Sacramento, auto parts stores in Kansas and Vancouver, and a car dealership in Detroit. They all want it badly."
"You have information on these places?" Nick asked. "We could accept the highest bidder, and then contact the others and offer to make more of the things. That could get us close to a half million dollars."
"Wait a second," River warned. "First, Kyle and George are artists, not a factory. It wouldn't be fair for us to sell copies of their work, even if they did the work and got the money. For one thing, the buyer is bidding so much because it is unique as well as beautiful. It wouldn't be fair to him, or her, if there were three or four more made."
"Secondly, it took George and Kyle 600 hours to build that. Another one might take more time. If you wanted three more it would take more than a year, and that is without making all the other things they make. The best I can see is if they commit to making one a year. And not a totem again. I'll bet they can make an awesome moose or deer out of parts, maybe a wolf, or a statue of Tecumseh. Different things in the same style."
Nick looked at the girl for a second, and then nodded. "All right, I agree. But River, I have never met anyone who is so dead-set against getting rich."
"It is not me that will be getting rich. It is the people. George and Kyle will get the money."
"Most of it," Nick said. "eBay will be charging a commission on the sale, I'm sure. And I think your operation should charge a commission as well. Perhaps 20 or 25%. We'll have to talk with George and Kyle about what they feel is fair."
"Well, last time I spoke with them they wanted $200 for welding supplies," River laughed. "When we tell them they will get nearly $100,000, or whatever, I suspect they will faint."
"I think I can talk with them," Nick said. "The may even be interested in hiring a few helpers at their shop with the money. Their production will go up, and they will be able to sell more."
"And more of the people get jobs," River said. "I like it."
Colin and Nick continued to talk, and River again felt out of her depth as they discussed the web page, viral marketing and e-commerce. She wandered out to the kitchen to talk with Mrs. Redhawk, who poured her a cup of tea. The two chatted for over an hour until the men were finished. River discovered that Colin's new complexion, no longer scarred by acne since the river cleared it up, had changed the boy's entire demeanor. He was more confident, and was now looking forward to going to high school, where before he had been terrified of going back to classes. River realized that she hadn't considered going to school again in September that much herself, and committed herself to thinking about it.
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Good Things...
It's nice to see Good Things happening right in front of everyone. Lets them know things can work out for everyone.
Can I join the tribe?
I like this series,a lot.
Things are moving
Along nicely with Rivers plan, Nick has a few thing to learn but he gave River a great pice of advice about George & Lyile's money how they could hire helpers give more people Jobs & increase productivity of their craft. Now River has to think about High School where she wasn't before, maybe she should talk to her River about school & see what it recommends how she should address it.
Love Samantha Renée Heart.
River on Amazon
All of River's savvy business plans and got me thinking. When you get a complete novel, I think this might sell as a kindle book, if you were so inclined; the first in the River Series. I think a lot of people would love it.
I love her disarming negotiation style, just the right concessions with people who might otherwise become her enemy. Letting them have their dignity.
It's so sweet that Carla has a new family ("more love and attention in 5 minutes than she had felt from her original family in 5 years"), and a loving sister now. I'm a sucker for a good sisters story. And Nick's new stature could make him a more commanding presence in the courtroom. The bit about his dick getting bigger seemed like an odd detail to throw in, but I guess it makes sense with how the river is helping Carla + him at the same time. She sure doesn't need the damned thing...
~hugs, Veronica
One of the
most important secrets of successful negotiating is learning how to let the other guy have your way.
Hint - it seldom works if you don't both come out ahead.
more community goodness
and the good stuff keeps spreading !
I'm wondering about River
I'm wondering about River when she gets back into school, will the RIVER give her lots of "inside information" that she never had before, so that she can move rapidly through the grades and be able to do her work with the People all the time? Really love this story, and I do agree with the one comment about this story becoming a Kindle Book and being the first in a long series of stories about River and those around her.


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Vientiane 9 May 2018
I have learned of the recent flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains in the Southeast of Kenya that have caused serious loss of lives and properties.
On behalf of the Government and people of the Lao people's Democratic Republic and my own behalf, I would like to extend my sympathy to Your Excellency and through you to the Government and people of Kenya, particularly to the family members of the victims.
I am confident that under intensive effort by the government, the Kenyan people will be able to overcome the impact of this disaster and restore the area affected by this natural calamity to normalcy soon.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Thongloun SISOULITH
Prime Minister
Of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
His ExcellencyRaila Amolo Odinga
Prime Ministerof the Republic of Kenya

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|12 Mar 2012
Sapphire ATI 6950 2GB GFX card too much for PSU?
My nVidea 7900GT graphics card (full system spec in my sig) is starting to struggle with it being DX9 and all so I'm looking for an upgrade but I'm not sure what to get.
I got a Dell U2311H monitor, so an average sized 1080p monitor.
My budget is about 200 euro so I was looking at the 6950 2GB but I'm not sure if it's too powerful for my needs (some gaming like STALKER: Call of Pripyat but mainly photoshop and movies).
It's also a little above my budget but I think it's worth spending the extra for the 2GB version for the chance to unlock it to a 6970 if it's not overly powerful.
Concern is whether or not my 450W Corsair PSU can handle such a modern graphics card. Is the card too big for my PSU? If so, what card would you recommend?
Not needing to upgrade for a few years would definitely be a prerequisite!
Thanks in advance!
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A 6950 calls for a 500 watt power supply....So it might work, or you could just add this Newegg.com - Rosewill Green Series RG530-S12 530W Continuous @40°C, 80 PLUS Certified, Single 12V Rail, Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7,i5" Power Supply
I've been using this for a while with a 5850 :)
Not the same supplies but some reviews http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php...Story&reid=258
One in use http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fea..._rig_under_700
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|12 Mar 2012
What's better, getting a lower spec graphics card or upgrading the PSU as well as the card?
Cause if there's potential in the 6950 that I won't be fully utilizing, I'd rather get a lower spec one and upgrade the whole system 3 or 4 years down the line.
Not too keen on the idea of upgrading both due to cost. Or is 450W just too small these days?
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|12 Mar 2012
The best that can be done without a upgraded power supply is this Newegg.com - PowerColor AX6850 1GBD5-DH Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
It's two steps lower, a third less streams, and can't be unlocked to anything.....It's better than what you've got, but not what you wanted
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|12 Mar 2012
unlocking is not a must nor is staying with ATI.
I know it's not exactly what I wanted but I would prefer to get a lower spec card that I can use the full potential of (i.e. I don't need maximum quality on a 50" plasma with 60fps or something extreme like that. Medium to good quality with comfortably playable fps is more than enough) and then upgrade the whole lot a few years on.
So the 6850 my best bet?
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|12 Mar 2012
Unless you want to wait a couple of weeks and see what the 7850's and the 7870's bring to the table:)....However stocks of the 6xxx's will be vanishing soon.....
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|14 Mar 2012
done some review reading and think the 6850 is my best bet. The current 6850 prices are acceptable enough that I won't be too disappointed if the 78xx's are better or create a price drop. Guess I'll go for that and upgrade my system in 3 or 4 years.
We'll see if AMD actually manage to get the desired performance out of their bulldozer architecture by then otherwise the Sandybridge or the equivalent architecture by then will be the next upgrade.
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|14 Mar 2012
I think the problem with Bulldozer was the delay in releasing the chip+They cheaped out and tried to share some of the core components between two cores....Yes it saved some money, but the end result was a core that was less than a core, and software can't fix that.....Not saying that it won't be better than now, but don't expect i7 performance.
But three/four years is a long time in the computer world:)
You would need 500 watts for a 7850 anyway AMD Radeon HD 7850 and 7870 review
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|15 Mar 2012
true, it was a risky move sharing components between the cores but it worked with their APU idea. In theory, it allows them to put in more of their "cores" on a single die doesn't it? I think the potential is there, they just cheaped out a little bit. Some tweaking in later revisions and who knows, they might actually get it working as desired.
Currently their price and wattage is unbeatable though!
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I would skip the 6850. Get at least a 6870 if you plan on going with an older card.
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List of Big Data Solutions Companies
More and more IT Companies are now offering big data solutions. They might have different ways to advertise their services but they are all focused on one thing – help their clients achieve the success they have always been dreaming of. They help their clients uncover the gems of information hidden in the mountain of data that they gather every day. They process these data top provide actionable information to better improve their client's products and services.
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In today's computing era, data has been made available to anyone who needs it. From social networking sites to website and application information, data are being gathered every day. Government agencies and private sectors also store volumes of data that are available to anyone who wants to use them. Some companies have their own way of gathering big data for their business needs. You just need to know what you need the data for so that you'll know where to get them.
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When big data gets bigger and bigger, that is when problems start to arise. Companies should be able to provide big enough storage to keep these data and to make sure it will always be available when the time comes that they need it. However, sometimes, machines that could handle large volumes of data are expensive, needless to say, that you also need an expert to keep it running and operational.
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Termination and Confluence of Higher-Order Rewrite Systems
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Abstract : In the last twenty years, several approaches to higher-order rewriting have been proposed, among which Klop-s Combinatory Rewrite Systems CRSs, Nipkow-s Higher-order Rewrite Systems HRSs and Jouannaud and Okada-s higher-order algebraic specification languages, of which only the last one considers typed terms. The later approach has been extended by Jouannaud, Okada and the present author into Inductive Data Type Systems IDTSs. In this paper, we extend IDTSs with the CRS higher-order pattern-matching mechanism, resulting in simply-typed CRSs. Then, we show how the termination criterion developed for IDTSs with first-order pattern-matching, called the General Schema, can be extended so as to prove the strong normalization of IDTSs with higher-order pattern-matching. Next, we compare the unified approach with HRSs. We first prove that the extended General Schema can also be applied to HRSs. Second, we show how Nipkow-s higher-order critical pair analysis technique for proving local confluence can be applied to IDTSs.
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The Lone Star, the Bank of Portugal (BdP), has selected to further negotiations with a view to the sale of the New Bank, already did know that, if you purchase a institution, it will keep António Ramalho to the front of the executive committee.
continuity in the New Bank of a Portuguese management headed by António Ramalho is one of the commitments already made by the u.s. fund with the BdP and the Government. But there are others. In addition to agreeing to preserve the integrity of the New Bank, the Lone Star opened the door to the involvement in the transaction of investors of Portuguese origin, which made in the framework of the contacts that are on-going from four in January.
it Was on this date that the Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Carlos Costa, concluded that "the entity best placed to finish with success" buying process "of the shares of the New Bank" was the Lone Star, which invited "to a deepening of the negotiations".
Hours after the supervisor has decided, the Government has clarified that the operation can not foresee state guarantees not have an impact on taxpayers. And so it was that the prime minister António Costa has traced the red lines of the negotiation.
And this is one of the central points of the dialogue that is going between the u.s. investor and the BdP, and that, in all likelihood, will bring in the next few days to Lisbon, Olivier Brahin, responsible for the european operations of Lone Star (that stands out in Portugal as an owner of shopping centers and real estate).
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An initiative that arises in the second round of the jobs that are held between the two representatives of the fund, Kamdiv Nourbakhsh and Benjamin Dickgiesses, and the team of Sergio Monteiro, charge by the BdP put the New Bank in the private sphere. Movements that intensified in the last few days and aimed at introducing improvements to the initial proposal of the Lone Star that consisted of a counter-guarantee from the Portuguese State on about 2000 to 2500 million euros of assets. Which translates into a protection (insurance) against the possible losses (around 25%) of the portfolio of assets problematic of the New Bank (very real estate) and whose value is pointed ranges between 8.500 million and 14 billion. This is a condition that the Lone Star will have to drop if you want to stay with the third-largest Portuguese bank. And it is, also, a critical point, because to dispense with the endorsement of the state the Lone Star (such as any fund) will have to find a solution tha t is convincing the investment committee that the risk that it will accept is bearable. And that the assets in the New Bank is reliable.
in fact, it is known that in the last days the BdP and the New Bank have been inundated by requests for clarification and new information and that they came mainly from the Lone Star. Also, in the background the Apollo [owner of Tranquility], who arrived late to the contest, has been doing a due diligence to the New Database.
As a potential candidate continues the China Minshneg, given how almost deleted for having been unable to provide a proof that you have funds to invest in the New Bank. This may, however, have used the waiting time to re-position. To be successful, you not only have to ensure that you have the money available to pay to the Fund Resolution, the owner of the New Bank. You must especially be able to convince the ECB, given that the european regulator had already raised doubts about the sale of the institution to the vehicle chinese.


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|Chimney Rock of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
During my visit, I wandered across the sand to reach this monument and felt that this was a very typical view of southern Utah on a typical day: fluffy intermittent clouds, beautiful blue sky, classic red rock surrounded by a dry environment. This was not the golden hour when the light changes color. This Utah in its' full, hot, desert glory!
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Disney closes LucasArts division, Star Wars 1313 now halted/
With Disney now owning everything Star Wars when aquiring LucasArts and LucasFilm for Billions of dollars, the third person shooter Star Wars 1313 has his development halted when Disney announced the closing of LucasArts. An end of an era, and a missed opportunity with 1313. Kotaku was informed from a source this afternoon that the chances of Lucas licensing out 1313 are very slim. The odds are "effectively zero," the source said.
"After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games," LucasArts parent company LucasFilm said in a statement. "As a result of this change, we've had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new titles."
With the studio no more, Star Wars 1313 is pretty much officially cancelled. The third-person shooter that mad its debut in last year's E3 wowed many including myself seeing the Star Wars license in a different light. I loved the idea of having a third-person shooter in the Star Wars universe, but I guess that concept will be forever buried.
Want to see what could have been? Check out the sweet demo shown last E3 below.
[Source: GameInformer]


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Video: Carolyn's class sings Christmas songs
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Merry Christmas!
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Video: William at four months
Posted by Chris on Friday, December 23, 2011 | Comments (0)
Big sister holds little brother, Daddy holds them both
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Bear suit comparison
Posted by Chris on Monday, December 19, 2011 | Comments (0)
Tags: bear suit, Carolyn, comparison, William
The growing boy
William went to the doctor this past Monday for his four-month checkup. He's apparently still a pretty big baby: 16 lbs 9 oz (75th percentile) and 27 3/4 inches tall (off the chart). At the same age, Carolyn was 13 lbs 1 oz and 24 inches tall.
One area where Carolyn did have William beat: head circumference. She was in the 80th percentile at 16 3/4 inches, while he is in the 50th percentile at 16 1/2 inches.
Also, as you can see in the picture above, we've started letting him play around in the jumper as well as the exersaucer, and we've started to feed him rice cereal. More photos and videos coming soon.
Posted by Chris on Sunday, December 18, 2011 | Comments (0)
Tags: doctor, gaining weight, growing, jumper, William
A visual comparison
Clockwise from the top left: William, Chris, Carolyn, Kristen
Looking at the pictures above, you're probably not going to confuse Mom and Dad's baby pictures for one another, but clearly the other two are our babies.
Posted by Chris on Thursday, December 15, 2011 | Comments (0)
Tags: Carolyn, comparison, dad, mom, William
The funny things Carolyn says
Almost daily, Carolyn says something unexpected and completely off-the-wall hilarious. Just a few of my favorites...
While setting up a game of Go Fish:
I'm not gonna put the jokers in, 'cause they will joke all the cards.
The first thing she said to me one morning after an obviously tense dream:
Daddy, what if somebody tried to take off part of your foot?
Carolyn has been sucking on her bottom lip, which has caused it to be a bit chapped. I warned her that when I was a kid, I got severely chapped lips that cracked open and really hurt. Her question to me:
Daddy, when your chin was open, did the rest of you fall apart?
This one comes from school, where they asked each kid how they cook a turkey and recorded the responses word for word:
I don't know about a turkey, but my mom bakes chickens in the oven. She cooks them for 8, 5, or 11 minutes. Then she unfries it when it has cooled off and then it is spicy.
And finally, some misunderstood lyrics from the song "MoneyGrabber" by Fitz and the Tantrums:
Pull back, penny pink
What I really want some more
This is your baby
Money grab on
The actual lyrics:
Don't come back any time
I've already had your kind
This is your payback
Money grabber
Posted by Chris on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | Comments (0)
Did you see that?!
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Tags: tummy time, William
Carolyn's school picture
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Tags: Carolyn, preschool, school picture
Video: Carolyn plays in a giant leaf pile
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Video: William laughs
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Tags: bouncy seat, laughing, video, William
Sitting on Santa's lap
Today we went to the mall to let the kids sit on Santa's lap. Carolyn had opted out the past two years, but was pretty excited this time around. William was perfectly calm, and only tried to eat Santa's coat once or twice. Carolyn asked for "the game and the big rectangle thing from the back of the catalog."
Posted by Chris on Friday, December 09, 2011 | Comments (0)
Our little bear
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"Daddy, I can hold him up!"
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William and Grandma Hyland
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Tags: Grandma Hyland, William
Raking leaves with Carolyn
Carolyn was extremely excited to help me rake leaves last weekend. I should have known that her only motive for this was to jump into the leaf piles. And we made some gigantic leaf piles. As it turns out, the weather was unseasonably warm, so I was out there in short sleeves in late November.
At any rate, she actually was more helpful than she appears to be in these photos, and is way more enthusiastic about raking leaves than I'll ever be again in my life (I hate it, although using a leaf blower is kinda fun).
Posted by Chris on Friday, November 25, 2011 | Comments (0)
Video: William speaks
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Video: William's Baptism
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Little brothers rule!
Posted by Chris on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 | Comments (0)
Tags: bouncy seat, hands, William
Video: William holds his head up
Posted by Chris on Wednesday, November 02, 2011 | Comments (0)
Sup bro?
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Happy Halloween!
Posted by Chris on Monday, October 31, 2011 | Comments (0)
Tags: Bumbo, Carolyn, costume, Ellie, Halloween, mom, pumpkins, Rapunzel, trick or treating, William
Video: Carolyn goes bowling
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Video: Carolyn and Ellie play air hockey
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Tags: air hockey, Carolyn, Ellie, Oasis, video
Video: Tricycle crash in slow motion
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After two months, Carolyn is still quite fond of William
Posted by Chris on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 | Comments (0)
The smiling machine
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A feverish weekend
When William woke up on Friday morning, I sent a text to Kristen -- who had been working overnight at the hospital -- remarking that he felt a little warm. Little did I realize what that observation meant at the time. He had been fussier than usual the night before when I (attempted to) put him down to sleep, but I thought nothing of it, really. And then he was fussy and especially sleepy all day Friday.
At about two in the afternoon, Kristen thought he felt really warm, so we took his temperature. 101.3 degrees. Not good for an 8-week-old baby. After a quick call to the doctor, we were off to the emergency room, a parenting adventure we had never experienced in three-and-a-half years. When they took his temperature in the ER, it was up to 101.7, so they decided they had to run a few tests, which in hospital-speak means, "We're going to torture your child for a little while."
The first torture was the insertion of a catheter. William's screaming didn't help matters, forcing the nurses had to poke around a few times, which of course becomes a vicious cycle. I squirmed in my seat. Torture number two involved an IV to draw what seemed like an enormous amount of blood from an infant. And then the final torture was a lumbar puncture, which you may know as a spinal tap. We found out that William's screams go to eleven.
They stuck this sleeve on his arm to protect him from his own IV line. We promptly started calling it his clobberin' club, and he promptly started bashing Kristen with it whenever she got too close.
There were no obvious answers as to what was causing the infection after these initial tests, so they told us that he was going to be admitted and likely have to stay for 48 hours until all of the labs were back. Great. At the time, they made a guess that it might be a urinary tract infection, but didn't seem terribly sure. They started him on some antibiotics to flush the infection out, but of course, this meant that he was hooked up to some tubes, which he didn't particularly like.
(By the way, thank goodness Grandma Moyer was in town. Like a hero, she stepped in to take care of Carolyn while we were at the hospital, before heading back to Colorado early Sunday morning, at which point Grandma and Papa Hyland took over.)
After we were in the hospital room, it was pretty much just a lot of waiting around, with various doctors and nurses stopping by to poke and prod him periodically. I make it sound worse than it really was; in fact, the doctors and nurses were universally fantastic throughout. Overnight on Friday night, William's temperature peaked at 103.8, and then gradually came back down throughout Saturday and Sunday.
Carolyn paid us a visit in the hospital and had a rollicking good time in the playroom and drawing on the whiteboard in the room.
Eventually all of the labs came back negative, and the doctors' best guess is that he had some kind of viral infection. No indication of where it came from or where it went to, unfortunately. We ended up back home around 5:30 Sunday evening, with William feeling pretty good it seemed. He spent the night in mom and dad's bed, and most of his naps today were in either Kristen's or my arms.
Here's hoping he fully recovers quickly!
Posted by Chris on Monday, October 10, 2011 | Comments (0)
Closeups of William
Posted by Chris on Thursday, September 22, 2011 | Comments (0)
Tags: William
Taking Carolyn to the movies
This past weekend, I took Carolyn to the movie theater to see The Lion King in 3D. This is the third time she's been to the movies, having previously seen Muppets in Space and Cars 2.
She kept the 3D glasses on maybe 60-70% of the time, talked an awful lot, and bounced around among about 4 different seats. All in all, she wasn't too bad. And she managed to time her potty break at exactly her least favorite part of the movie (menacing hyenas moving in on kid Simba).
At one point she blurted out pretty loudly, "This is a BAD movie." She was referring to the events on screen being unfavorable to the protagonists rather than the movie itself being a piece of junk, but of course, the rest of the theater didn't know that.
Towards the end, she just wanted to sit on my lap and asked if she could take a nap. When she did this at Cars 2, she fell asleep right at the climax (and loudest part) of the movie, but this time she actually stayed awake through the whole thing.
Note to parents: Watch the movie in 2D if you can (and save yourself a few bucks); the 3D effects were pretty terrible. Beforehand, I had told Carolyn to be prepared (pun intended?) for animals to be coming out of the screen. Throughout the movie, she kept asking me when the animals were going to come out of the screen, and eventually was very disappointed when they never did.
Posted by Chris on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 | Comments (0)
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Lovely rose buds. I like the light in the second picture.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing this lovely rose buds with WEF :) LG TinaReplyDelete
beautiful Pradeepa, I love 2nd shot..ReplyDelete
Beautiful rose and beautiful photography!ReplyDelete
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Gorgeous set Pradeepa.ReplyDelete
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Love the softness of the first one; but the second one is my favorite.ReplyDelete
Lovely shots!
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These are very beautiful shots. They make me want some fresh flowers in my room really bad!ReplyDelete
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Subtle and gentle as a rose with so soft texture. You've made them look so fresh and humble.. Love all your captures. Am becomming a great fan of ur shots...:)ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos of rose bud. I like the texture of all your photos, not just these but all those that you post on your blog. NiceReplyDelete
the first is my favorite, so soft..that really tops the last post;)..so beautiful!ReplyDelete
I absolutely adore the first shot - the composition and depth are perfect!ReplyDelete
These are so beautiful, I had some roses like this a while ago, couldn't stop taking photo's! Glad you enjoyed them so much, I look forward to seeing more...ReplyDelete
You captured the rose most beautifully.ReplyDelete
These are beautiful photographs Pradeepa, and I just LOVE the color of that rose!ReplyDelete
Wishing you a wonderful day!
Just stopping back to say thank you so much for sharing this today at The Creative Exchange!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful shots, lovely rose.ReplyDelete
Lovely images of my favorite flower! I like your second capture the best - the color harmony, light, and composition!ReplyDelete
Just beautiful...the second shot really stands out for me.ReplyDelete
These are gorgeous! I love what you did with the photos!ReplyDelete
Lovely peach color -- and I sometimes think buds are more beautiful than the blooms, don't you? Wonderful capture.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing at YSB this week, Pradeepa. I appreciate your participation!
You seem to love flowers.. !ReplyDelete
Beautiful snap..
very beautiful indeed....ReplyDelete
I can't wait to see the rest. These are wonderful examples of your talent.ReplyDelete


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