Smithsonian Magazine Editors' Pick!

I couldn't believe this, it was such a pleasant surprise! I just had to share it with you all. :)

Dear Contestant,

Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that one of your photographs was selected as one of this week’s Editors’ Picks on Smithsonian.com. Each week our photo editors choose the best entries submitted so far to the Smithsonian Photo Contest. We share these photographs with our readers on our Editors’ Picks page.

Please visit http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/editors-picks/ to see your entry among this week’s selections. You'll have to go to the week of June 21st to view the photo, or you may see it here http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/editors-picks/?c=y&date=06/22/2010 I highly recommend entering - it's a weekly contest and it's free. I thought it might be fun just to enter and see what would happen... Totally wasn't expecting this.

Happy Belated 4th of July

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood