It was delivered today!

No, not our grandson, but my birthday camera!  I took it outside for a few quick shots before opening up the "how-to" manual and was quite pleased with the results!

Tomorrow I'll test drive it around town.  It's "Doors Open Milwaukee" weekend!  More photos to come.

UPDATE!  Click on this link to see the Doors Open photos.  I had a lot of blurry photos, due to my learning curve with the new camera.  And, I wore my cool boots while walking around today - resulting in a nasty blister after three hours.  Only hit four places so I'll be returning next year wearing my walking shoes!

Name Guessing

Three and half weeks to our grandson's due date and I've been thinking hard what his parents will name him. Albert seems to run in both sides of the family, but I doubt they'll use that one.  But there are lots of variations, like Alan, Alberto, Alfie and my favorite Alistair.

On the other hand, "J"'s seem to be popular for our grandchildren...we already have a Julia and a Jacob so perhaps Jameson, Jesse, or Joshua?  

Royally; William, Harry or George could work.  I do like Anthony too - having a "Tony" in the family would be a lot of fun!  Cooper is fun to say, but I think the kids at school will probably give him a nickname that rhymes with that one.

Whatever his name is, I know I'm going to love it!

PS:  Too bad "Gilbert" is already taken.

Happy Birth Season!

It's that time of the year again - close enough to my birthday to begin celebrating.  It is also time to upgrade my camera and couldn't be happier with this selection by sweetie. He spent a lot of time researching my next camera.  This one is definitely ahead of the curve in the camera innovation market.  Only downside is it is coming from Japan, so will take about 6 weeks to arrive.

Check it out!  The reviews are fantastic.

FUJIFILM X100S | Fujifilm Global

http://www.masonmarsh.com/blog/2013/6/fujix100s

SPAM

Do you have a special folder for SPAM emails?  I do. Yahoo does a pretty good job of filtering these junk messages for me.

Daily I select "all" and delete them permanently. However, I've noticed myself doing this more than once a day so I decided to let them accumulate for a week to see just how many show up. This past week 150 emails showed up in my SPAM folder. That is more than 20 a day for crying out loud!

Today I sorted this list by "sender" to see if this was being caused by only a few senders. It turns out there are 70 different "senders".  But...that is only what it looks like.  Actually what appears to be duplicate senders are not - the spammers use a slightly different address each time they send a message. What a pain!

Yahoo allows me to BLOCK 500 addresses from even getting into the Spam folder.  I'm up to 126 after this week.

2013 State Fair Winning Photos

1st Place
Tropical Flowers

1st Place
Wisconsin Landscape

2nd Place
Fruit & Vegetables

2nd Place
Apples

2nd Place
Weather, Snow

2nd Place
B&W Seeds

3rd Place
Eyes

4th Place
Weather, Fog

4th Place
Forks

2013 State Fair Winning Photos, a set on Flickr.

If you're visiting the 2013 Wisconsin State Fair, these will be displayed in the Horticultural Building, but I'm never sure quite where...its a scavenger hunt!