Playing with textures

Bee and Pansy

            Found in my flower bed last Fall

Mofongo!

I'm still picking through Picasa. I thought I would look for pictures of my hometown, which led me to search for Puertorrican food, which eventually led me to this. It may look gross but, trust me, it's sublime!

#6 Picking through Picasa

Christensen Agate marbles are some of the most beautiful machine made marbles. They are hard to find in the wild and pretty hard to find in Picasa too, apparently :-). Here's a site with lots more pictures of these beauties: The Marblelairium

Hmmm... Though I'll keep exploring Picasa, I think I like Flickr much better.

7 1/2 Habits

I would say that #s 5 ("create your own learning toolbox") and 6 ("use technology to your advantage") are the easiest and most fun for me, as witnessed by my previous post, and #4 the most difficult - I have to work on that confidence thing.

TCCL's 28 Things

Okay, I am very excited about doing this. Technology wows me - I am an unabashed geek. I remember the thrill when my mom took me to the store to buy my very first transistor radio (yes, I am that old).  And, having caught Beatlemania several years after the Beatles had disbanded, I remember patiently recording "A Hard Day's Night" on my cassette recorder when it showed on tv, grateful to capture just the sound but thinking: "Wouldn't it be fantastic if I had some sort of cassette that would also get the video... Nah! Like that would ever happen in *my* lifetime!" Well.

Fast forward (with blazing speed!) to today. I become interested in photography so I buy a camera, I read books, I join a club AND I also take advantage of the many tutorials on YouTube. I subscribe to the "Photoshop User TV" podcast and download it to my iphone. How's that for a learning toolkit?

I  feel spoiled by how easy it is to instantly find information about anything that spikes my curiosity. So I want to know the name of that song playing on the radio? I can hold my phone up to it and find out. Would I like to find other people who also collect marbles and like to talk about it? Well, there's a forum for that!

I'm looking forward to going through 28 things. I love the way it's been put together and, though I've already used many of these sites and technologies, I can't wait to explore them in more depth. Should learning be this much fun? Yes, indeed!  Segue into the next post...