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To: Ilaine who wrote (43634)	12/17/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'm here! Re: Lights... I put a couple of strings of all white lights up in the maple and apple trees in the front yard. Makes it nice when walking around with the dogs in the evening. Also reminds me so much of going downtown Montreal before Christmas to walk around in Agringnon Park (I think it is gone now..think they built the Olympic Stadium there). The trees were covered with thousands of little white lights and it was magical looking. There was a carillon there with someone playing carols. We always seemed to go when there was at least a few inches of snow on the ground and on nights when the snowflakes were coming down. They had deer in yards around the place... It is a favourite memory from my early teenage years... Anyhow, I put up those lights and we cut a funny little "double" spruce tree (one "half" of a pair that were growing together from the same roots out in the field). I put the tree in the screened-in porch on the other side of a large sliding-glass door from my desk and decorated it with coloured lights. Darkness bothers me terribly at this time of the year, so it's great to look up and see the tree out there. I may leave it decorated with lights for much of the winter... Now... you had asked about the Crocodile lady. I made it by scanning a photograph of a Roman statue of a nymph with a satyr. I changed the background to black and the grey tones to green tones. I drew a Crocodile head and scanned that and sized it to fit onto the nymph's neck. Then I "painted" the colouring onto the statue using my WACOM pen and Photoshop's airbrush paint tools. I drew the dress freehand using the pen and coloured it in. I really enjoy doing stuff like this... it's great fun... ;-}>