We just got back to town after spending a couple of days up by Estes Park, just outside of Rocky Mt. National Park. We watched their Christmas parade Friday evening and hiked on snowshoes on Saturday (the first time I'd ever been on them!). We saw a snowshoe hare all hunkered down under a spruce tree, and I shot him three times (with a camera, not a gun!). I sure hope that the pictures come out well. That town up there has a huge population of elk, who wander up and down the streets and even into people's yards. Almost everywhere you go in Estes Park, you have to watch your step to avoid tromping in piles of big brown jellybeans. Of course, when I had my camera handy, the elk were nowhere to be seen, even though they'd been all over the place when we got there on Friday and also on Saturday. Hope your long weekend was great -- Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr