We sometimes get lovely e-mails from people outside West Virginia's borders for whom the photographs especially resonate as they used to live here. A devoted DowntownWV fan now living in Orlando, Fl., sent a couple of nice notes, excerpted below (to preserve her privacy, she asks we use only her initials). Send yours to us, as comments to a blogpost or as an e-mail to gazz@wvgazette.com and it will get back to me:

LSC WRITES:
"I just wanted to contact to let you know just how much I enjoy your photoblog. I live in Orlando FL. (21 years now) but grew up in South Charleston, I actually lived and worked downtown Charleston the last 5 years that I was in WV. I read the Gazzette online every day and find myself looking forward to anything that you might add to your blog. You have brought back so many fond memories for me and I really appreciate it. You're doing a great job and your point of view is right on target with mine. Often I would walk around and take in the architectual details of all the cool old buildings. I love the fact that I can show my husband (a Floridian) Charleston the way that I saw it."

LSC sent a note today which I found especially sweet. She and some of her family who remain in the Charleston area make enterprising use of thegazz.com "gazzcam" in front of Taylor Books in downtown Charleston:

"Every now and then I can convince members of my family to go to Taylor's webcam and call me on their cell phone. We chat and I feel closer to home while viewing them on the street in Charleston. Isn't that cool?"

Cool indeed, LSC!

~ Walker DeVille