It's been a long time, we know: excuses count for naught, but fresh enthusiasm does, so enjoy the old picture galleries and please drop us a line. You all know we miss you and think about you, and if you happen to make it to San Antonio for a spell you know we'll pick up right where we left off... so here's some news and snapshots to get you ready.

I tried an image gallery system that was a little different than before - the photo sets are arranged like subdirectories with a single thumbnail representing either entire albums or whole sets of albums.Currently there is a four-album set labeled 1995 to get everyone caught up through the second half of that year, starting with right after Hanna's first birthday.

Next there is a 2006 album that has but a single set of pictures so far, but a lot has happened since then, of course.. Using this embedded photo manager was supposed to make it easy to add fresh pictures in a timely fashion, allowing us to concentrate on selecting and touching up the best of the best instead of having to generate all sorts of web pages to display them.

These galleries have navigation in the upper right, with a nifty Javascript powered slideshow option that will go through all the pictures full screen if you want to see them that way. It might be worth it to go through them individually if you like to read the little captions or if you want to leave comments on a picture.