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The other day our congregation put on a sort of talent show with the perhaps

exaggerated title: "Entertainment Extravaganza."  Normally I would sarcastically spin

this title but since Priscila was in charge I am too informed and involved to be

unbiased (I told her she should have named it something like "The Same ol' Song and

Dance" or "Righteous Roundup of Raucousness" or, to get as many people there as

possible, "Flashdance on Ice").  The show had its ups and downs and asides but I

think most agreed that it was a success.  Priscila wasn't in total control because she's

not the Jefa (Boss) but the things over which she did have control were those that

received the most acclaim from the audience.  

Just to give you an idea about what was on the playbill for the evening: three piano

pieces (quite good each of them); three show tunes (everyone stayed on tune  (two

were professional singers); three dance routines (this group of kids was not

associated with the church but it did a fair job); an act from a play (great job by a

church member who is studying acting); a duet and piano piece (girl sang and played

piano and boy sang (great job both of them)); and, without further ado, a musical saw

piece (would have been a great comedy routine but it was dramatically not funny).

After the show there were refreshments (church members whose talent is cooking

made the sweets) and a sort of visual arts show.

The Visual Arts Show consisted of some fine watercolors, a very impressive display of

one church member's accomplishments as a professional dancer for the most important

African American dance company (the name escapes me at the moment), several examples

of another member's work in animation projected from his computer on to a movie

screen (this was the most popular (at least as far as the kids were concerned)), some

other assorted crafts and paintings, and last, and certainly least, some of my own

photographs (not pictures of me but pictures that I have taken (which are not of me)).

I'd like to show those pictures here but they are not digital and I don't think that I'll be

scanning them anytime soon.  As I was looking for a couple of potential candidates

from my digital repertoire to display I came across a couple of photos that I really like

but that I didn't end up displaying because I'm not comfortable with printing digitals yet

(I really don't know where the best (and cheapest) place is to print them the way I

want them to be):

1 [Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina]

2. [Río Blanco, Salta, Argentina]

3. [Bear River, Box Elder, Utah]

4. [Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Box Elder, Utah]

5. [Near Spiral Jetty]

6. [Spiral Jetty]

[7. Río Blanco]

8. [Agua Escondida, Cerro Colorado, Córdoba]

9. [Cachi, Salta]