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You are a good gurl grannie9 — I can never get them to follow any instuctions I give them but when they go off on their own without guidance, then I get blamed. :)

I have been so busy this morning learning CSS while working on style sheets for my Web Site. I will send you all a bit of magic when my host has finished processing it.

I tiefed that photo from a PPS called the Last Frontier – I can’t post it yet as the music is all messed up. It is supposed to be the Royal Philharmonic playing Aria de Amor from Tosca, but it seems who ever stole it had two separate tracks mingled with each other. I may have to replace it with something else.

When you showed me the link to Sedona, Arizona, shown above, I immediately thought how it seems just like Las Médulas, an area, not far from here, where the Romans mined for gold in the 1st century. Your mesas are much more natural as only the winds have eroded them.

"What happens in Las Medulas is far beyond the work of giants. The mountains are bored with corridors and galleries made by lamplight with a duration that is used to measure the shifts. For months, the miners cannot see the sunlight and many of them die inside the tunnels. This type of mine has been given the name of Ruina Montium. The cracks made in the entrails of the stone are so dangerous that it would be easier to find purpurine or pearls at the bottom of the sea than make scars in the rock. How dangerous we have made the Earth!"

Pliny also stated that 20,000 Roman pounds of gold were extracted each year. The exploitation, involving 60,000 free workers, brought 5,000,000 Roman pounds (1,650,000 kg) in 250 years.

"In the 1st century A.D. the Roman Imperial authorities began to exploit the gold deposits of this region in north-west Spain, using a technique based on hydraulic power. After two centuries of working the deposits, the Romans withdrew, leaving a devastated landscape. Since there was no subsequent industrial activity, the dramatic traces of this remarkable ancient technology are visible everywhere as sheer faces in the mountainsides and the vast areas of tailings, now used for agriculture." World Heritage

This is a fun 360º Panorama - just move your mouse left or right or up and down to see it all. "Click" to move around, "Shift" and "Click" to zoom in, "Ctrl" and "Click" to zoom out.

Panorama of Las Mèdulas

I can never get them to follow any instuctions I give them but when they go off on their own without guidance, then I get blamed. :)

Maybe you don't have the right speech writer.. I'll bet Obama would lend you his for a little while. ;)

(Never mind...that might be a baaaad mix, lol.)