How to fill time in retirement

 Since having become a member at Brevard Zoo, I make more visits and take more photographs. It becomes east to be overwhelmed by all the pictures. I currently have 484 Giraffe shots. Way to many. In organizing, I have learn to let a "good" shot go and delete. I only need to keep "great", "excellent", and "memorable". That is also too many. As I try to figure this out, I have come up with five different classes of Zoo shots: POSING: the animal appears to be posing for my photo EATING: the animal is eating something or looking for food RESTING: the animal is resting or napping or lying out of the Florida heat TRAINING: the animal is working with a keeper SEXY: the animal is about to have sex, is having sex, or wishing for sex Here are the latest Zoo visit photographs. Of course this is just a few. I usually take between 100 and 200 photographs in one visit. Many are repeats to get the "great" shot. As far as the sex, one of the Zoo's ...

 As I recently reached the age of 69, I find it easier to reminisce about the past. When you have lived this long, there are many people that have passed through your life and some, probably all, have made some kind of connection. Those connections always interest me and I like to ponder them. Of course, the top connection is family, and classmates while in school, people on sports teams, co-workers, and just people you meet at the store or who fix your car. All pass through the life that you lead, and across the universe, all these connections make you who you are. Early Connection I started to get the Midd Magazine, a Middlebury College alumni periodical. My dad, a Graduate from Middlebury College in 1949, always got the magazine and when he died, so did his subscription. Not being a Middlebury graduate myself, I always enjoyed going through each issue. One day, I took a shot, sending a letter and asking if I could get a subscription. The response was 'we will send you all the ...