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Hello guys. My name is Barry and I'm from the UK. I didn't find a introductory section. That is why I post here. I hope this is alright. I just came across this forum while I was looking for a present for my nephew. He likes to play with marbles. So I'm looking forward for some inspiration. I...

The Calypso Orchid is a native to the Pacific Northwest and is pretty uncommon. I've got a pretty good crop of them up in the woods, but this little guy was right next to the gate and much easier to get to on my gimpy leg. http://www.gaiser.org/Calypso050817.jpg In my more gardening days, I...

in Vermont.

Laptop kicked the bucket. Got a replacement - but didn't notice the lack of a memory card slot. (?) Dug out old card reader and struggled for days trying to get puter to locate the drive to upload pics. Problem solved, but it was a very short-lived success. Reader and card were for my old camera...

I've mentioned before that I used to collect toy cannons. Mostly Big Bang Carbide Cannons, but also black powder and firecracker. One of the cannons I purchased was a bronze reproduction of a very early firecracker cannon called the Home Guard Safety Cannon. Today I discovered that only 50 numbered...

Three freaking years and nuthin. Then out pops this. Happy Plum day!!

I thot they were gonna blow up!! Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!:jump4joy2

Getting older every day; but so pretty still..

Since neither of these photos are of marbles, I'll post them here. Summit Lions. Don't know how I started collecting Summit Lions. I have 14 in various colors and am still missing a few. http://www.gaiser.org/SummitLions.jpg And this is just some of my Akroware. The rest are scattered...

Lotsa medium out there. Sketch/photography and collages...needless to say my house looks like the Michaels store.

I'm not a baker (and can only eat decadent in small amounts) so any recipe with these qualities usually a disaster, but I saw a recipe online for dark choco brownies with merlot and a semi-sweet merlot ganache and I caved. Oh my. Needs some tweaking but since I don't bake; don't really know which...

Not one of my better weeks so far. I put down my 32 year old Arab gelding yesterday morning. We've been together for 30 years. He quit eating this past Saturday and Vet couldn't find anything obvious, so blood tests were ordered. His kidneys were failing. At his age and his other health...

I'm not much into them but this one is just so cool. Ruger vacaro. Too much off topic.

*Long* before I collected anything else, I collected stamps. Started collection when I was a kid and once I started my first job out of college and had a bit of extra spending money, I started going to stamp auctions. Mostly just stamps, but occasionally other stuff, including covers (envelopes and...