Merry Everything.... Christmas too. Greetings from the island of Vaca Key... well really we are part of Fox Key but Vaca Key, is larger and might show up on a map search and the small island I am on probably will not.

The photo was taken by a dear friend of mine. Thank you snoozer... you know who you are. ( He would not want his name in print. It is the way of the Keys....)

Also a special thank you and hugs to Sandy and John in Michigan who through modern Photo Shop skills touched up the photo. I am much better looking than the photo. They thought it a good idea to tone it down a little!! He he

The boat lettering is new... part of the logic of the photo. I just had to show it off. I spent months searcing for the font I wanted. The local boat lettering store, there is only one, could not offer me anything I liked. Thus I went to the internet and found some thing called p22 Alpha Roman. They purchased the font and now I can have more items lettered.

Why that font, it is as close as I could find to the printing that is on the Empress Taro card by Rider Waite. The deck served as inspriation, a symbol that helped name her. To me the boat is like the Empress card... part of her is initiative & action. Along with many other mother earth type skills.

For the boaters the anchor is a stern anchor , a Fortress tx 37 with chain rode. It is there as a break in case I need to stop in an emergency. The upright the anchor is attached to is part of the davits. In fact I am sitting on part of the chain... the mizzen pushed off to the side.