The first shot is out the window of my computer room.  The second shot is of my back yard and was taken last February after a snow.  My back yard abuts a cemetery.  Those folks make the best neighbors you could wish for.   

4WD, I enjoyed your pictures.  My nephew is heading for Australia to play for the Springvale Lions, which I believe is near Melbourne.

About twelve years ago I started renting a permanent email address from some web company.  It was great, for ten bucks per year I could just give out that email address and have it automatically forwarded to my ISP address, no matter what that was.  I was on dial-up at the time and once I got AOL's hands from around my throat I tried out several ISPs for six months to make sure I didn't get stuck in an AOHell world again. 
The permanent address worked great for about five years and suddenly I started getting tons of spam. In the past I had merely created a new permanent address, kept the other up and running until I was sure all the folks who needed to know, had the new address and I would then delete the old one.  Usually it took almost a year before spam took over an account.  Five years ago the Spam built up once again so I created a new address and before I gave it out to anyone, it was full of spam.  The only thing that made sense was that either the company itself or an employee was selling addresses.  Unfortunately he had gotten too efficient and got my address to the spammers before I could use it.
Since then I have kept an online account at yahoo and hotmail and a gmail account.  I hadn't known that domain names were so cheap to get.  I will definitely try out Deozaan's excellent suggestion.