mccalpin's VirtualTourist Home Page

Here in the heart (and heat) of North Central Texas, I live for the memories of living in Europe and for the hope of going there again.

In the meantime, I pursue work and a little winemaking (see http://www.poison-ivy-vineyards.com).

Talk to me about Rome, Italy, and the Etruscans!

Bill

During December 76/January 77, I took a trip through Northern Europe and Ireland while on Christmas break from the university. I obviously shot a lot of photos.

However, unknown to me, one of the rolls of film that I used had already been exposed by one of my students. She had failed to rewind the roll completely after shooting it and so sold the roll to me by mistake. She had shot the roll in Chartres, London, and possibly Paris, and all of her shots were superimposed on my photos.

So, while you might think that some of these photos make a political or artistic statement, in fact, they're all accidental(!). But what accidents(!)

The photo here is of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen (mine) superimposed on a photo of stained glass windows inside the church at Chartres (at a right angle)...

Gallery #1
Gallery #2

See the photo here, which should clearly explain why I have trouble sometimes working on VT. Not only do I have a cat on the back of my chair breathing down my neck as well as a cat glaring at me from the monitor, but I have a third cat draped over my right arm, inhibiting any wild mouse action!

Believe it or not, this is how they arranged themselves...

The PP is a new photo taken in my front yard on Memorial Day, 2009. The flowers below are 'red hot pokers' - rather amazing flowers of fierce yellow and red - under the US flag. The flowers are somewhat reminiscent of the "rockets' red glare"...

Under the old scoring system that VT used which rewarded you only for tips, my score hovered around 1400-1500. But under the new scoring system, you can be rewarded for forum postings as well as tips...which is good for me because I have many more forum postings than tips.

This week, I've broken into the top 100! Now if this VT gig only paid me ;-)