Congratulations, sorry for the delay, and a self portrait [View all]

I was happy to show up in the winning photos with my Kayak, disturbing the water's Autumn color reflections in Salem Lake. Thank you for your votes, it was a tough, hard fight.

I congratulate Grumpy and mnhtnbb for their beautiful, worthy winning photographs, and there were so many others utterly fabulous.
And I very much thank George McGovern for a flawless first in hosting.

I'm only now piping in because I was in the ER for 9 hours today, where they diagnosed the fall I had the day before yesterday as having broken a vertebra; no wonder I hurt hard and did not get better.

The photo is of me, OK, it's my left foot, in the room between X-rays and a CT scan, and so forth.

I will be glued back together soon with some glue. I have had that before with another break, and it solves the problem.

So, don't cry for me.
Be grateful with me it was not worse.

Now for the self-portrait, I took the photo as I was lying in the dreary Room at the ER -and it was funny - but the post-images are not working for me tonight, and I need to rest.