Awwww ...time for a group hug!! Thanks guys, it is very, very much appreciated!! BTW - My lunch date cancelled if anyone is available!

@ Joel - That is absolutely thrilling news that she is going to be born on my birthday! What an honor!!

@ Steve - Sorry but the hat has been retired to the "Good Ol' Days Hall of Fame"!

FYI -

Professional Photographers born on July 25th ...

Justice Howard - I won't say what she photographed (I'll make you guys research that) but hey, she is a photographer!

Thomas Eakins - In 1882, Eakins is named director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and shapes the institution into the most progressive art school in the world, incorporating photography and dissection (WHAT!) into the painting curriculum. Eakins makes his own sequential photographs of moving humans and animals to improve his students' understanding of locomotion. He uses his students as models and assistants in experiments of his own that record multiple images on a single negative.

That is your history lesson for today! Thanks again for the birthday wishes and Happy Birthday Lily!!