The lighthouse is not listing, photographer was listing.  For anyone who doesn't recognize this icon, it is the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.   It is on the National Seashore of the outer banks of North Carolina.  This is my favorite beach, you can walk for miles and not see anyone else.    I will try to find a link and article about it later.   The interesting thing about this lighthouse is that with erosion of the beach, the ocean was encroaching on the base.   So it was moved and now is 1/2 mile from the ATlantic Ocean.   They used Ivory soap (I think) to lubricate the rails that the lighthouse rode upon.

I have been perusing and finding many photography buffs and contests to enter my shots.   I am excited about that.  I am finding things on this computer that I have forgotten I had.   I had a 2g flash drive and it told me it was full.   I saw one in the paper and it was 8g and $32.  I may need something like that.  I also have all my things backed up on an external hard drive.

I am off a week in July and the project for my sister, Shawnna, and I will be to scan the old family photos.   That will be quite a job.   When my sisters were teenagers, they went with Tom and Gerda on a sojourn on the National Park grand circuit.  They left Pittsburgh and went across the top of the country, down the Pacific Coast, and then across the bottom.   The most memorable thing was the got to Death Valley during the hottest time of the year and the truck did not have A/C.   Tom did not believe in air conditioning, you had to "tough" it out.  The pictures of the dogs looked like they were dying.   The had to stop at the visitors center and take the dogs inside to recoup.

My sister has the map, maybe someday I will follow it.  But in an air conditioned Subaru.   I will stop at hotels, B & B's or Inns.  That all remains to be seen.   I will see if I can get Chuck to go, or maybe one of my sisters.  

Today I did orthopedics.  Spent the whole day doing total joints.   This is really a miracle cure for people with degenerative joint disease.    I am fortunate in that none of my joints hurt, but my neck and lower back hurt and there is no artificial joint for that.  Although, they can now inject the stress fractures in the vertebrae, it is with a type of glue that cements the fractures and drastically reduces the pain.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/caha/lrp.htm  Here is the link with information about the light house move.  You have to delve into the bowels of this link.

 

 

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