I just about always enjoy checking out your photos, Ron -- more than anyone else, you give me a visual link to Udon Thani that I don't otherwise have too much of.

So I want to wish you a great 2009!

And the same goes to the other Forum members I've met through the pages of this community, and the few I've met in person.

If I may put words into my wife's mouth, consider us toasting everyone there as she and I experienced the first few moments of 2009 outside our home here in snowy Surrey, British Columbia, Canada!

Garnet wrote:I just about always enjoy checking out your photos, Ron -- more than anyone else, you give me a visual link to Udon Thani that I don't otherwise have too much of.

So I want to wish you a great 2009!

And the same goes to the other Forum members I've met through the pages of this community, and the few I've met in person.

If I may put words into my wife's mouth, consider us toasting everyone there as she and I experienced the first few moments of 2009 outside our home here in snowy Surrey, British Columbia, Canada!

Thank you for those kind words they mean a lot to me Happy New Year & to your family

Too bad about Toronto, Tilokarat! Here in Surrey, we were obviously blessed where a "White Christmas" has been concerned. The statistic came out that for any specific Christmas around here, we have only a 10-11% chance of it being White.

It was especially meaningful for us because my wife's two sons of course wanted to see snow -- they've been here since after the end of the third week of September. They were both out there with us on New Year's, and one of them took the photo. Here's one of the two of them that night. The older boy (Tho, 14) wore just his sandals in his bare feet -- too rushed to join us to bother putting on regular shoes.

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This one was taken just before Christmas. The youngest boy (Pote, 11) has made a snow fort with our sundeck table as its foundation. My wife, Jack, is assessing his entrance portal.

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From Boxing Day, here is Jack playfully asserting her eminence to young Pote in the front yard.



And a group shot of us in front of the house -- Jack took the shot, so she's absent: myself; Tho and Pote; my brother (Mark); and his daughter, Rene (Irene).

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Good fun, for sure -- but I'd still rather be a resident of the tropics!!

I must say, I'm not exactly entranced with ImageShack -- I particularly don't like how the Forum page is hijacked each time I open a link or photo in my post, nor that the image is shared with an ImageShack self-advertisement.

I must say, I'm not exactly entranced with ImageShack -- I particularly don't like how the Forum page is hijacked each time I open a link or photo in my post, nor that the image is shared with an ImageShack self-advertisement.

You can still use isara pix if you prefer Garnet....nice pics you are looking well snowed in.

http://www.isarapix.org/

off topic but I use isarapix for posting photos it the one I learned on so I stay with it B/M gave you the web site for it I have it bookmark try it out and see if you like it better Happy New Year every one

or, use imageshack, but use the image code under the pic 'Hotlink for forums (1)' which will put the pic in full size, but careful on original pic sizes.

a program 'shrinkpic' auto resizes pics, to load faster. the kbs, not the actual size, so size still matters. works with most uploads, though sometimes not imageshack.

http://www.onthegosoft.com/shrink_pic.htm