Virginia Breeze

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

I was looking through some photos this evening and this one just reached out and hit me in the head.  I don’t know what to say about it.  But I feel it deserves to be seen at least as much as a political ad or a toothpaste commercial.  So here it is. And here’s something to go with it that I just downloaded  from Amazon MP3 Store.

Soul Ballet/ Lavish/ In the VIP

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I have been playing with Photoshop CS3 this afternoon.  I downloaded a free copy (for thirty days).  Do you know how much this thing costs if you buy it?  Over six hundred dollars!!   Can you imagine?  Do you know what I can get for that much money?

Why I can get a Woodrat for six hundred dollars!   And a Woodrat will make all kinds of wood joints for your latest wood project without much effort at all.

Here!  Just take a look!

Or I can get more than half of the new lens I want in order to take photos far, far away from the bird or person who is walking around UNAWARE that someone is drawing a bead on them!   I can do this from our balcony at Virginia Beach.  Or I can go down to the river and finally take a photo of that heron who sits out there and cusses out the ducks.

But six hundred dollars for a CD and some software?  It hardly seems right.  What is wrong with these  people?  You can almost get a whole computer for this much money!

So I downloaded it for free (for thirty days) and I have been trying to understand why it could possibly be worth this much money.  And since I am particularly dim witted in this area things have not been going well.  I can see where it is possibly worth fifty or sixty bucks.

So we have a long ways to go.  But the rain appears to have let up.  It’s still dark outside but things are no longer filling up with water.  And I have been looking at the faces in my Blog Catalog widget. Most of them I do not know.  And I wish that I did know them.  But every face on that widget represents a challenge about as big as Photoshop CS3 to me.  It is not easy figuring out most people.  At least it is not easy for me.  If you have a knack for it you are truly a gifted person and you have a valuable talent.

But, chances are that if you are at least as complicated as Photoshop CS3 I will never understand you. If I was twenty five and found you extremely sexy there is a chance (if you are/were a girl).   Or if you became my in-law through some cruel act of fate I might figure you out.  Or if you decided to embed yourself in my comment page and never leave until you made your point I might grow to understand and (dare I say it) be fond of and admire you.

And I would appreciate you too.  Because it would not cost six hundred dollars to reach this happy moment.  But, on the other hand, you would not be able to fix my photos. You could enjoy them after they have become presentable.  But you could not lighten certain parts of them (which is called “dodging” I have just learned) or darken other parts (which is called “burning” I have just . . . fallen asleep.)

You would be full of pluses and minuses and you would possibly continue to confuse me long after this storm has finally wiped out the US Open and headed out to sea.  But that’s alright.  Life is full of challenges.

Do you have a help page?  Please send it along next time your smiling face appears in my Blog Catalog widget.  I need all the help I can get at this point.  I’m like one of those solar panels that gradually becomes useless in cloudy weather.  The ones you can get for a lot less than six hundred dollars!

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are;
but you must approach each man by the right door.  ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

I was noticing that it is rather dark outside my little window this morning.  And I could hear hard rain hitting the roof.  But only when I received an email from someone in South America asking me if I was alright did I go to the Weather Channel and find THIS.

This storm is right on top of my house!   That’s not very nice.

THIS MAP IS PRETTY COOL.  It shows weather from all over the world and changes from day to day.