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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=826154" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03fb9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <div> <B>Who I am </b></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>K.de Jong</b></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="K.de Jong"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>About Me</b><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poetry"><U>Poetry</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 2"><U>Page 2</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 3"><U>Page 3</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 4"><U>Page 4</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 5"><U>Page 5</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="page 6"><U>page 6</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 7 "><U>Page 7 </U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="page 8"><U>page 8</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 9 "><U>Page 9 </U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 10"><U>Page 10</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page11"><U>Page11</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album"><U>Photo Album</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Page 2"><U>  Page 2</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 3"><U>Page 3</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Page 4"><U>Page 4</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thoughts "><U>Thoughts </U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Scenes from the Rocky Mountains / Jasper"><U>Scenes from the Rocky Mountains / Jasper</U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HooDoos "><U>HooDoos </U></A><B>   |   </b><A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" More HooDoos"><U> More HooDoos</U></A></div> <div> About Me</div> <bR> <bR> <div>                                     <IMG SRC="0959de80.jpg" border=0 width="413" height="232" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>           <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" >I was raised in  small  town  rural  Saskatchewan   drawn   to the  bright lights of the  nearest city.as a teen   and  I still reside in the city.   I have  not forgotten  my  rural roots , the smell of the land after a  summer rain  nor  the fragrance  of  fresh  cut  hay.    </FONT></div> <bR> <div>       Saskatchewan, as flat as it may be, does have its pools of beauty  and although  I  haven't  traveled  all   the  province  I  have  seen  enough  to know that  the  saying " you  have to be crazy to live here" can easily be changed  to      " you have to be crazy to leave".</div> <bR> <div>        Where else  can  the  fires  of  dawn burn  so bright and the  painted  sky  at  sunset so vivid?   </div> <div>       Where else , on  a  clear summer  night  will  thousands  of  stars  jockey  for position  to  hear the  choir  of  frogs?  </div> <div>          Where  but here  can  the  meadowlarks   song be  heard  drifting  on  the wind.  </div> <div>          Yes , we have  winter but its blended with all  four seasons  . We  can  watch  the  green  hue  of spring darken  to  the  full fledge d  foliage  of summer , change  yet again  to the  golden  red colors  of autumn  and finally</div> <div>  the  angelic  white wrap of winter</div> <bR> <div>         </div> <div>        </div> <bR> <div>    K de  Jong</div> </td> </tr></table></body>