Just clicking the shutter

 

Last week the market was rather calm at times, then really crowded. 

Then suddenly the iPhone camera started doing this.  I have no idea what it's called. The people seem to float away from the background! (I had commented that I liked how one woman was dancing the samba with her dog, so they let me take their photo!)

Then the camera started giving me the breeds of dogs when I pushed the little "i" button after taking a shot. Wow, I thought, this is neat. But wow also, how did I keep it from focusing mainly on one dog or another? I found the icon which had no name at the top of my camera, and turned it off. Now I have no idea how to turn it back on again!

May I introduce "Bailey" the Burmese Mountain Dog.  A bit itchy, her owners said, all the time.

Cool app that's right in the camera to identify dogs' breeds! But the highlighting thing comes and goes apparently. Wonder how to turn it  on again!

Isn't technology fun?

Now I need to go water plants before another day goes by with rain predicted that never comes. (she said Mon. morning.)

Today's quote:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein 

"Missie Lain Eus"

 Some photos that just wanted to be shared...for no particular reason!

Gnomes to greet sick people

A fabric remnant to share cheer!

Neighborhood's latest house is almost finished.

One day when my laptop wouldn't open a link from Facebook, this greeted me. Fortunately after a reboot, it was gone. Whew.

Matt Morris in Waterloo Canada thought Easter Island sculptures were the thing to do.

A chart of all the ages...literally. So you have reference to the eons of time. Or eras perhaps. 

With the low angle of the sun reflecting off the opposite wall, I suddenly saw all this black stuff growing in the louvers of the mini-split heating unit. The maintenance man has cleaned out the inside, and we both keep the filters clean, but I'm responsible to clean this outside area. So I got my rubber gloves, put cardboard on the carpet underneath, took off my slacks so I wouldn't splatter on them, got a bowl of 20% bleach solution and a little rag, and bent over (wearing a mask too) and went at the mold!

It's not perfect, but at least most of it is gone. Whew! Didn't have that planned for the day!

Printmaker, Bertha Lum, Wise Men

UPSETTING:

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, saying in a post on X Wednesday that he was "ashamed" of presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania for their response to antisemitism on campus. The university leaders were criticized following their testimony at a House hearing this week. In their remarks, none explicitly said that calling for the genocide of Jews would necessarily violate their code of conduct. Instead, they explained it would depend on the circumstances.

I was glad to hear the congresswoman say back to them on the Thursday evening news "you should all be fired for not saying any of that was intolerable conduct!

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On a brighter note: 

Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform Fairytale of New York at Shane MacGowan’s funeral in Nenagh

Today's quote:

Life is a gift that is given and will be taken. How we choose to spend our time here is our gift to life. It is our way of saying “thank you life” for the gift.

IMUETINYAN UGIAGBE NOTE: "Missie Lain EUs" is Miscellaneous This is the fourth night of hanukkah

The Apple and the PC

 I just spent hours trying to upload my usual iPhone photos from the iCloud to my PC, so they could then go onto the blog. Nada.

I checked that the PC's photos app was working.

I just had had an update on the iPhone...so I called their customer service.

They finally got me using iTunes program on the PC, and importing with a physical cable to get my photos off the phone into the PC.

ARGH!

I haven't had to do that for years. And I told the CSR the same.

Somehow iCloud no longer is downloading to my PC at all. No more whatever wi-fi is for, or blue tooth or whatever...I'm back to a USB to phone cable. 

I'm not just a little peeved. Once they are downloaded one by one, I have to then open them to edit them, and again photos on the computer is being hesitant.

But hey, I'm an industrious user of several devices...there ought to be a modern woman name for that!

I happened to pick up my mini iPad, which won't update any more because it's so old, but when I pushed the photos icon, there were yesterday's photos. So 

I edited them in iPhotos on the iPad. When I restarted the computer, the edited photos were there, ready to find, through yet another link in the maze of PC files, and I could get to them from blogger.

Whew. I'm ready for lunch...it's already 1:22 pm and I started doing this around 10 am.

Yep, you can read all about it, or just skip it...like this day was supposed to be a skip day for me.

On the lookout platform at Mt. Mitchell

 On a clear day (which we had) you can see for miles.

 Those are the feldspar mines in Spruce Pine, NC., the strip mining that shows this far away. (Above and below)

Lest we bemoan the mines as environmentally toxic, remember that we support their very being, because the silicon that comes from them is the finest for use in technological devices like phones and computers...which I'm using right now.

 The last 100 feet (I guess) up the ramp to the lookout platform.

 When 20 or so people are milling around, taking turns taking photos at various parts, it's a fluid experience.

Autumn colors

This is not my photo...and unfortunately when I saved it, I forgot to put the artist's name on it.  But it's too beautiful to leave sitting in my computer.  Hope he/she doesn't mind...and if they see it, will comment so I can give credit. Actually I think that's the Burnett Reservoir over to the far left, and this is from Craggy Gardens, looking down toward Black Mountain NC from the Blue Ridge Parkway.