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STRANGERS IN THE BOX

Come, look with me inside this drawer,
in this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, and serene.

I wish I knew the people,
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories,
Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like,
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time,
To tell, who, what, where, and when,
These faces of my heritage,
Would come to life again.

Could this become the fate,
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories,
Someday to be passed away?

Take time to save your stories,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours,
Could be strangers in the box.
Author Unknown

No need for u to read this Big Tel

Buckingham Palace and the other Royal Palaces (nearby St James’s Palace and Clarence House) are guarded by five Regiments of Foot Guards.

These are: The Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards.

You can tell which Regiment a soldier belongs to with a click glance at the buttons on his tunic and the colour of the plume on his hat.

The Grenadier Guards buttons are in a single line, and the plumes on their hats are white.
The Coldstream Guards have a red plume and buttons in groupings of two.
The Scots Guards buttons are in threes and they don’t wear a plume.
The Buttons on an Irish Guards tunic will be in threes, their plumes will be blue.
The Welsh guards have a white and green plume and their tunic buttons in two groups of five.

so the pic in the gallery is of a scots guardsman, but bigtel new that

just thought i would share a little tip, to help with the anoying times when you are working on a picture and run out of one colour.
Get the image of the picture you are going to use to upload the colours. open it in Photoshop, then use a pen and draw on a small area of the image with a colour u know u are not going to use, [ lets say red]. then upload it to broth.

Then b4 u start yr pic, move the 50 or so red tiles to a corner. if u get to a point u are running out of a colour, go to yr image in photoshop or most other photo programs,

use eye dropper tool to get the correct colour u need and paint over the red area u made earlier.

when u re upload the image back to broth only the red tiles u tucked in a corner will have changed. so no need to redo any of your artwork.

I hope this tip is of some help and save u time and trouble