I received an email from the folks at Disney telling me that pictures I submitted for consideration to be included in their collage project at DisneyLand were selected!
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For the fourth consecutive year, the Texas Longhorns are in Omaha for the College World Series. You can keep up with the ‘Horns on the internet as they play against the nation’s best for a chance to win another national championship.
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Our friends the Crutchfield’s have a ranch near Florence and every spring the bluebonnets blanket the ground in glorious color. Our families have an annual ritual of taking pictures when the flowers are at their peak. Afterwards we enjoy a meal cooked over an open campfire followed by a dessert of S’mores.

Is the digital lifestyle overwhelming us? When my parents took us on vacation they probably shot two rolls of film with the family Instamatic (remember flashcubes?) When we returned home we wouldn’t see the pictures for over a week after we dropped the film off at the drugstore for processing.

I finally finished copying the last of the digital pictures from the compact flash cards I used in our Canon digital camera during our Disney spring break trip. Grand total of digital photos: 916.
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