Barney Lerten, a Bend, Oregon resident, has been a professional journalist for 30-plus years. The views he expresses here are entirely his own and do not reflect that of his employers, past, present or future - but hopefully, some of them find favor with you.

Is the name of a Windows bitmap image included with Microsoft Windows XP, produced from a photograph of a landscape in Sonoma County. California, southeast of Sonoma Valley near the site of the old Clover Stornetta Inc. The image contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the Luna theme of Windows XP. Bliss as seen in a clean Windows XP desktop.

Sunday, August 23, 2009. After spending a couple of days in Winston-Salem we traveled to Kitty Hawk and spent 5 days in a beach house. It was amazing! Riding the Merry-Go-Round that is in the mall. Seriously it could take 3 days to walk thru this mall, its huge. Unfortunately all the the guys were with us so we werent able to spend as much time there as we may have wanted. North Carolina is so in.

Thursday, August 6, 2009. Monday, July 21, 2008. The Blanchards just returned from many weeks of baseball with the Southeast Regional Championship! Ethan had a great year of baseball at short stop. I am glad to have a break and enjoy the rest of the summer relaxing. Thursday, June 19, 2008. The Blanchards are busy with summer activities.

Join us on the adventure we call life. Monday, October 19, 2009. Below are a few pictures of Kailey and Anna. I think this was actually an easier recovery than with Kailey, I really only had pain where my epidural was. Wednesday, October 07, 2009.