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Well, art is subjective. It's a much closer likeness than the Eliza R. Barchus version painted @100 years ago. I like the bold stokes and interpretation of yours, but I like the Barchus version as well. I bid on the Barchus anyway, I think it went for @ $1800 the first time and $3750 2 years later. The description was: ""Beacon Rock at Sunset" with figures in canoe in foreground. 22 in. by 36in. signed Barchus l.r. In wood frame. Together with a first edition book, (so stated) "Eliza R. Barchus, the Oregon Artist", by her daughter, Agnes Barchus, 1974, Binford & Mort, Portland, with dust jacket." Barchus has stuff hanging in the White House though. Yours pic- despite being more if an impressionistic style, looks more like the rock to me than the Barchus, and he did this back before there were many white people around to blow the rock up, cut the trees down, etc etc. Wish Barchus had just painted what he saw.

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What part Mel? I use to live in Paonia for a couple of years after my father died.

You sure that you don't diss everyone? BTW, been with my spouse for almost 29 years. There is a place and time for everything. A time to climb.... ...a time to shoot. ..a time to sit on our asses and reflect on both... ..to everything, turn, turn, turn, There is a season, turn, turn turn. And a time, to every purpose, Under Heaven.

yeah yeah yeah, diss all over the guys with the guns till the zombies come crawling towards ya:-) Now who's got shrinkage!

Signs of a sick society click here:-)

Been a year ago today.

Name 3 and provide links. What innocent people have we tied up and beat for 2 months, then arrested when they went public with the story?

Link To the whinny people around here who continually bitch about our country all the time. Here's how much of the rest of the real world sadly is. This gentleman only told the truth of how he was (mis)treated at the hands of the police. Bye-bye Jigme. "Jane Macartney in Beijing A Tibetan monk who is one of a very few to speak openly of his mistreatment by Chinese police after demonstrations against Beijing in March was arrested today when he emerged from two months in hiding. More than 70 police, including members of the paramilitary People’s Armed Police, raided the dormitory of the Labrang monastery in western China that was Jigme’s home, sources told The Times. Police vehicles, their sirens wailing, drew up outside the monastery just after midday. Armed officers poured out and entered Jigme’s cell near the front of the ancient edifice that sprawls up a hillside in Gansu province. A source said: “We don’t believe they gave any reason for his arrest. They came at lunchtime when most of the monks were in their rooms and there were fewer people around.” Related Links * China relaxes decades-old restrictions on media * Dalai Lama has gallstones removed * Famous Tibetan blogger held by police Jigme, who only uses one name, had been in hiding, moving from safe house to safe house on the vast Tibetan plateau, ever since he made a video in late August - later posted on Youtube - in which he described two months of interrogation and abuse by police. Friends told The Times that he decided to return to his monastery after police, who had visited his family, said he would be safe from arrest if he returned to his monastery. With the onset of winter, he decided to believe the authorities. He is one of the few Tibetans to speak openly of his experiences at the hands of the security forces since 22 people were killed in violent anti-Chinese demonstrations in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in early March. The demonstration quickly spread to other Tibetan regions of China. In his video, in which he shows his face, Jigme described how he had been dragged off the street while waiting for his shoes to be mended by four uniformed guards who pulled him into a white van. He was driven to a guest-house run by local paramilitary police and held even though he insists he took no part in the anti-Chinese unrest that swept Tibetan regions of China in March. He was taken to a prison in a town near the monastery. He told the Associated Press: “They demanded to know if I was a leader of the protest and what contact I had with the Dalai Lama. They hung me up by my hands and beat my hard all over with their fists.” He said similar treatment was meted out to other Tibetan prisoners, and family members were refused permission to bring them additional food and warm clothing. He was twice taken to hospital. The second time, after lying unconscious for six days, he was handed over to his family who took him to another hospital where he recovered after 20 days of treatment and a rest. He returned in May to the monastery where he his a member of the Gyuto Dratsang, or Upper Tantric College, one of its six institutes of learning. He told one interviewer: “I’m not afraid of being taken in. I have no regrets. I am not guilty of anything."

Not a chance in hell...although did you see what just happened in West Virgina, one of the key states?

yeah, that just sucks.

Nice stuff Marek!

I too have nothing to add. "Call it The Bonfire of the Vanities. The British appear to dislike Palin so much that America’s hockey mom-in-chief is to be burned in a 20-foot-high effigy tonight atop a bonfire on the site of the Battle of Hastings, the event that saw England’s King Harold shot dead with an arrow in the eye. The facsimile Palin, who has become an instant and recognizable figure of fun around the world, is dressed as Rambo brandishing an enormous machine gun and bedecked with bullets, all the better for shooting Alaskan wolves with, above a banner reading, “Too Hot to Handle.” Obama does not escape the attention of satirical fire raisers. He sits forlorn at Palin’s side, in a tin helmet only held up by his outsize ears."

Prole, this only re-enforces how pointless spraying on the internet is. There is no reason to for me to feel shame. None. I remember arguing your point back when I was 16 to my neighbor, Al Purdy, a WW2 vet, he wasn't able to change my opinion then, only time and knowledge did. You won't change my mind on this and I won't yours....for now. Just rest assured that you truly are wrong and lets leave it at that. Please bring it up if you ever see me FTF and lets have the full discussion. Later!

Glad someone said it Doug. It seems to me that today's little pissing match in Iraq may be tomorrows death struggle on the other side of the world with a large bear or worse. The dudes in Iraq will be the same ones moved over there, against the bear or Asian Hordes, saving your ass, and your loved ones asses, and your way of life so that you can flap your lips with out recourse any way you want here on this site Prole. If you want to dispatch rancor on this war, I can see it and understand it, however, today isn't tomorrow, and kicking those in the crotch who may need to be standing between you and some future unimaginable personal horror seems silly, wrong and counterproductive to me. Think it over. Take care all

"We Have Nothing to Fear Except Fear Itself!" (Until the Taliban takes over Pakiscracistan and drops a nuk on us, then we shall have other fears:-( )

YOU TALKIN ABOUT BIDEN TAKIN ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF OBAMA BEING ELECTED?

First up fer ish, the rest of some Screwtop red called Evil (upsidedown label). Got to polish it off to line up the stuff rmcrter (Mel) left on my porch last night for the loan of a short rope! SOBO!??????? Whats on tap up there now?

It's the first part of the second part that troubles me......I was thinking if I had to go climbing Saturday:, Beacon, via aid, in the rain, is as good as it gets if you dress warm. Next would be digging dirt off at the Far Side. Or hiking up to Jimmys and doing the combo shooting the Noveske or the 9's/drinking water fill-up from the artesian well there and sawing the downfall timber from last year. Should have done some bouldering then laps with young Jim yesterday up there after work....ahhh sublime! And warm yet! Rocky Butte in the wet sucks. Short routes, no sun....condoms...blah blah Got to pass on that.

I would find it difficult to actually use one of them. I couldn't bring myself to go sit in the mud and pull the trigger on any of those things as it would be like adding some crayon art to fill in a Monet.

That's hilarious! Someones been hard at work I see! Keep that around in case you need it in 4 years.

Well, Eric Clapton isn't waiting around for that, he's quite the collector and is putting up 14 of his custom high-end shotguns up for auction and YOU can buy them. OMG these make my panties wet. Wet panty link Says: "On a warm Friday evening in the summer of 1965, I was dragged to a Guildford, Surrey dance club called the Ricky Tick by a reluctant cousin. He had come to meet his girlfriend, but I had come to see John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and their new guitarist, Eric Clapton. What I heard that evening was, for me, epiphanal. I recall later telling my father, who was dying at the time, that I’d heard a man bend guitar strings until they sounded like someone singing. I began to understand why fellow Mods wrote “Clapton is God” on the walls of the London Underground. All these years later Eric Clapton is not only still with us, he has done what a lot of successful chaps have done in the past, he has taken up shooting. Now, 13 of his shotguns are to go under the hammer, so to speak, at Holt’s Auctioneers in the UK. A raft of Purdeys and pairs by E. J. Churchill, Watson Brothers, and William Evans will be auctioned off December 11th and could fetch as much as £500,000. Clapton has claimed that his passion has gotten out of hand in much the same way his guitar collection did. “It’s following the same pattern as when I collected guitars, cars and watches. I start out with a fairly broad spectrum, get obsessed and engulfed and finally narrow the collection down. I built a gunroom that can house a certain amount of guns and now I have to clear the decks for the new guns I have on order.” One of Clapton’s guns even features a vignette of Slowhand himself picking an acoustic under a tree. The scene is by Marcus Hunt. All have the escutcheon engraved with the guitarist’s initials, “EPC”. Several of the others feature classic English scroll by famed Brit engravers such as Martin Smith, Simon Coggan and Wesley Tallett. If they have a consistent theme it is of English scroll surrounding a solitary glowing rose. There are many reasons to engrave a rose—that most British of symbols—on a London gun, but Mr. Clapton has made the flower his own, even recording a couple of songs with “rose” in the title. Clapton was born in 1945, the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and 24-year-old Canadian soldier Edward Walter Fryer, who were not married. Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth, then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up with his loving grandmother, believing her to be his mother. And her name? Rose. WILLIAM EVANS A FINE AND UNUSED PAIR OF MARCUS HUNT-ENGRAVED 20-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 20060 / 1, 28in. nitro chopperlump barrels, ribs engraved 'WILLIAM EVANS LIMITED. 67A, ST. JAMES'S STREET. LONDON. S.W.1.' and gold-inlaid '1' and '2', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. imp cyl and 1/4 choke, actions incorporating Holland & Holland type self-opening systems, semi-selective single-triggers, rolled-edge triggerguards, automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, the actions, lockplates and furniture deeply engraved with best bold acanthus scrolls on a matt background, the pinless lockplates very finely engraved with vignettes of Eric Clapton; gun No.1 with him sat against a tree playing an acoustic guitar (left side) and catching a trout on the fly (right); gun No.2 with him having cast a fly (left) and partridge shooting (right), all signed 'M.A. Hunt', the undersides set with colour-hardened roundels, gold-inlaid with the monogram 'W.E.', bright finish overall, 14 5/8in. highly-figured stocks, weight 6lb. 6oz., with gold escutcheons bearing the initials 'E.P.C.' in their brass-cornered oak and leather case with full complement of William Evans accessories and canvas and leather outer cover. The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed mid 2007. J. PURDEY & SONS A UNIQUE, DELUXE TALLETT-ENGRAVED 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER AND UNDER SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 29840, 28in. nitro barrels with matt game rib and side-ribs, scroll engraved at the breech end, over barrel engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. AUDLEY HOUSE. SOUTH AUDLEY STREET. LONDON. ENGLAND.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke, hold-open toplever, automatic safety, non-selective single trigger, rolled-edge triggerguard, the action, lockplates and furniture deeply chiselled with bold acanthus and floral motifs on a matt background, the lockplates with vignettes of English partridge and mallard in flight and signed 'WEZ TALLETT', the underside with a pheasant, the side-bolsters carved in relief with the makers name, the fore-end iron decorated en suite, bright finish overall, 14 3/4in. highly-figured stock with Prince of Wales grip and carved steel pistolgrip-cap, gold escutcheon engraved 'E.P.C.', weight 7lb. 7oz., in its lightweight leather motor case with accessories. The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in May 2003. J. PURDEY & SONS AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF UNUSED, COGGAN-ENGRAVED, 12-BORE ROUND-BODIED SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 30117 / 8, 28in. nitro chopperlump barrels, ribs gold-inlaid '1' and '2', tubes engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. LONDON. ENGLAND.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke, self-opening actions with rounded bars, pinless lockplates, automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details in gothic script, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, non-selective single-triggers, the fences deeply carved in relief with grape and vine motifs, the actions, lockplates and furniture fully engraved with bold arabesques interspersed with floral bouquets, all on a matt background, the lockplates relief engraved and gold-inlaid with a single English rose, the makers name gold-inlaid in gothic script within a scrolled ribbon, the fore-end irons decorated en-suite and also gold-inlaid 'Purdey' in gothic script, the triggerplates signed 'S. COGGAN', bright finish overall, 14 1/2in. highly-figured stocks, gold escutcheons engraved 'E.P.C.', weight 6lb. 12oz., in their lightweight leather motor case with accessories and canvas outer. The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in November 2004 J. PURDEY & SONS A MAGIFICENT PAIR OF DELUXE COGGAN-ENGRAVED 20-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER AND UNDER SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 30263 / 4, 29in. ribless nitro barrels, the breech ends with bold scroll engraving and gold-inlaid '1' and '2', over barrels engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. LONDON. ENGLAND.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/2 and full choke, hold-open toplevers, automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, rounded bars, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, non-selective single-triggers, rolled-edge triggerguards, the actions, lockplates and furniture fully engraved with bold arabesques interspersed with floral bouquets, all on a matt background, the lockplates relief engraved and gold-inlaid in three colour gold with a single English rose, the makers name gold-inlaid in gothic script within a scrolled ribbon, the fore-end irons decorated en-suite and also gold-inlaid 'Purdey' in gothic script, the triggerplates signed 'S. COGGAN', bright finish overall, 14 1/2in. highly-figured pistolgrip stocks with carved steel pistolgrip-caps, gold escutcheons engraved 'E.P.C.', weight 6lb. 7oz., in their fitted reptilian skin motor case with accessories and canvas outer. The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in April 2007. "

Nice lapping with ya Jim. Wish I'd run into you earlier in the year. I think I got to the Butte 5 times this year (exclusive of bouldering)- that was real nice. Now the rest of you ladies.....and you know who you are, NOT JH who was in the cardiac unit, NOT Kyle who's taking some recovery time, and not Ivan who's been lapping beacon daily it seems....the rest of you ladies need to get out some more!

Due to having poorly read your earlier comment, I wandered off wondering/thinking you may have been working some kind of software for a cardio unit and that's why you were there. I'm dense. Damn. Well, there may be something behind the scenes yet. Remember that extended malaise you had going in the not too distant past. I was a strange thing that, so keep paying attention. Guy at works sister was in for a routing physical with the mammogram 3 months ago, everything fine. Noticed a lump 2 weeks ago and has malignant cancer spreading through her body. Had the removal surgery yesterday, but won't know if they even got it all for a while. Keep an eye out: ....glad you're OK!