The party was wonderful. We had dozens of folks stop by, the food was outstanding, and the entertainment was perfect. Ricky and Lucy went all out with the presentation and turned the Rancho backyards into a magical place with thousands of white lights strung everywhere and Japanese lanterns hanging from trees. They bought fresh flowers and hanging baskets of flowers and arranged those all over the place. They handled almost all of the setup just by themselves. I mowed the lawn on Saturday morning and just relaxed after that.

Everyone had a great time, and I was just overjoyed. I took about three digital shots before the party started. Deb took a roll of film. A photographer friend took photos before the sun went down, and he's handing those off to me this afternoon. He had to leave before all the lights looked really pretty though because it was his daughter's bedtime. She's one-something, I think. Even I find her adorable, and that's saying something.

Thought I'd share one of the actual ceremony photos that Molly took. It's exactly the kind of photojournalistic look that I wanted, like a George Tames photo from the Oval Office. I knew that the judge's chambers weren't likely to be any kind of showplace, and in that case, a very "this moment" style of photography would serve best.

�2004 Molly Bennett

There are lots of wonderful photos from Toronto and Niagara Falls. If anyone wants to see them, e-mail me at manualmode at earthlink dot net. Oh, and I'm abandoning my badsnakeloosed address at Yahoo. It it about 99.9 percent spam now. So sad. I'll never type another unadulterated e-mail address on a web page again.

But, this morning's entry was really prompted by my biggest "why didn't I have a camera with me" moment in a while. I was going to the library and walked past a bunch of Hooters girls jumping rope in front of the restaurant. The girl jumping had to hold her chest inside her shirt to prevent wayward boob escapage.

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