Day 5: (Fishing Day-Ha, Ha)
This morning I decided to get my fly fishing gear out (it has not been out of the box since I bought it) and see if I could figure it out.  I got it put together, but it took me a lot longer than it should have. I went to the lake to practice my technique.  I got off to a poor start, but my technique improved steadily until I snapped my fly off with too much wrist.  I went back to my cabin, put another fly on, and after lunch went back to the lake for my afternoon session.  Snapped another fly off, so as of now, my score is 2-0, meaning 2 lost flys and no nibbles.  Not a good record, but at least I was feeling better about my technique before I snapped the 2nd one off.
Tonight I went to Bill & Mary Ann Sayre's house for dinner.  Bill and Mary Ann used to live in Austin where Bill was an anesthesiologist and he and Mary Ann were scuba divers with the group that I dived with.  They have lived in Pagosa Springs ever since their house burned down in Georgetown some time ago, and in the last year they have moved from their cabin to a house close in to town. What was fascinating to me was that in their fire they lost, among everything else, a lot of Bill's diving pictures, but one item that was framed and in the Pagosa house with them was an article on scuba diving in the Austin paper that featured me and Bill and our underwater photography.  Mary Ann had found that framed article in some of their moving boxes that she was unloading the week before I sent the e-mail that I was coming their way. I had not seen them in 30 years, and the large picture in the upper right of the article was one that I had submitted and it reads"Mary Ann Sayre and a large grouper as photographed by Dick Williamson".  I had totally forgotten about that article.  Mary Ann said she couldn't believe that she had just been looking at that picture when I sent my note.  Enough nostalgia.

Fly Fisherman ??

View from Sayre's back porch

Mary Ann with diving article

Good to see the Sayre's after 30 years