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Musings

Slowly trying to catch up on things. And there are so many things to catch up on… Seems December was a blur… And now we are starting the 2nd week of January. I had planned on starting my catch up yesterday, however, life seemed to have a different take on that issue as we woke up to ice on everything. It was beautiful to see. Such beauty and yet so much danger in something so simple as ice.

All of the elementary schools for our town were closed due to downed electrical wires and trees. There were reports of a couple trees on fire from hitting power lines. Then there is the ice itself on the roads…

Today it keeps fluctuating between sunny then storm clouds and a bit of snow followed by a bit of sun… the weather has yet to make up its mind.

Moments ago, we got a strange snow flurry – looked like hundreds of little styrofoam balls flying through the air.

Here is a shot of the actual little balls as they sat on my deck moments after the shot above was taken…

It was a great little break in my day to grab the camera and take a shot. I’ve actually been doing pretty good on keeping up with the photo a day this year so far… of course it has only been 8 days so far and now that I’ve mentioned it I have probably doomed it… but let’s not dwell on that yet…

I’ve been cleaning out my inbox in an attempt to get things organized so I can get back to work… Some of the items in the inbox are from so long ago… from net friends I had every intention of getting back to but never found the time to actually sit down and write out replies… if you are one of those and you are by chance reading this, I apologize… again, I’m very behind on many things…. including the email from my husband reminding me we have to write up our Christmas 2008 letter… yep, still haven’t done that… How about Happy Groundhog’s Day cards??

Design Query: Why can’t one place a RAW image from Bridge into Contribute??? It would make life a little simpler…

Photo a Day 10 Nov 2008

Only a few flowers left outside with the temperatures dropping to right around the freezing mark at night. Here is one of the last of the mums..

Last of the Mums

I also posted an image from our trip to the orchard on the 1st. It was the last weekend to pick apples at the orchard and we managed to get Cameo, Rome and Ida Reds. Love just eating the Cameos. This tree is a Rome. I thought it was interesting with the bulge at the bottom. Looks like it has been grafted.

Apples

Photo a Day

Back in January I made a New Year’s resolution to try to keep up with the photo-a-day on pBase… I didn’t make it too far… Figured I’d start trying again in hopes I can keep it up while Mike has to travel next year…

This is one of the last leaves on our weeping cherry tree out front. I love the colors these leaves turn.

Weeping Cherry Tree Leaf

Interesting observation from saving this in Photoshop CS4 – the Save for Web is supposed to give you options as to how much metadata you want left on the image – no mater what I chose, it stripped it all so apparently there is a bug there somewhere.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

Finally have our first spring flowers a few crocuses around the yard.

Other news would be that I finally broke down and bought a new laptop. I’ve been complementation getting one for the past year as my old Toshiba Pentium 3 from 2001 just wasn’t cutting it anymore. With desktop computers I build my own… not an option with a laptop so I now have my first Dell.

Owned it less than 24 hrs before formatting the harddrive and doing a clean install within a retail version of Vista Ultimate. Once I realized I needed the AHCI Intel SATA driver during the install things went pretty well. I’m writing this on it right now using the Wacom Tablet and handwriting recognition. Very nice for there laptop- but not sure it is something I’d ever use on any main computer since tin a very efficient typer. Benefit of having to take typing and having wpm drills in high school.