Direct marketing excesses sometimes annoy or offend consumers. Most of us dislike direct response TV commercials that are too loud and too insistent. Our mailboxes fill up with unwanted junk mail, our e-mailboxes bulge with unwanted spam and our computers screens flash with unwanted banner or pop under ads. Should credit card companies be allow to make data on their millions of cardholders worldwide available to merchants who accept their cards? In their drives to build databases, companies sometimes get.

Chilling while watching the sunrise. This bird is watching the sunrise at Shoreline. A duck just dived, so I got the ripples on the fall trees reflection. is for Joe my brother who inspired me to start sailing. Shoreline lake is so still and makes a lovely shot of the sunrise.