After spending THREE HOURS on the phone with a nice man in India who works for Dell, I then spent another two hours installing (and in some cases, uninstalling and reinstalling) software and updates. Yeesh.
When all was done, what is the FIRST thing I did? Uploaded pictures. :) Just a few, because I am dead tired, but still.. a few.
Including this one. I took pics of this little girl on Friday afternoon at the beach, as another adventure in photography experimentation. I got some pictures I'm really happy with... mostly just ones I critique in my head. But I definitely felt like I learned something. Also, I discovered that this brown fleece blanket I bought on clearance at Target also happens to be the EXACT color of sand. It's like an invisible blanket. Excellent.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
