Showing posts with label Wild Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild Flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"Say hello to my little friend"

I'm a very happy girl now.  I have my new toy to play with - my iMAC!  Not bragging ladies, just sharing my happiness with you.   But let me also share my frustration with my old computer.  It was just not cutting it any more.  I literally had to turn it on, walk away, let it load up and then return in 10 minutes.  My husband tried everything but could not get it to run any better.  It all happened after I saw that popular commercial promising that your computer would run faster and  better after you did x,y and z.  Don't believe it, it's a bunch of crock.  It messed everything up, it hid files, slowed it even more, crashed, blocked us from accessing anything literally, and kept finding a gazillion errors and viruses- all fake.  He called the so called company and of course, they tried to sell him a program to clean it up and to maintain it.  They helped, supposedly delete their download, but it just would not work.  He finally started researching on going to different blogs and found that it was all a scheme to sign you up for their service.  

If you happen to get in the same mess I did, I suggest you go to thisbleepingcomputer.com.  They provided us with information to be able to restore the computer to a workable state.  However it was not the same.  At least they gave us resources to be able to retrieve all our information and thousands of family treasured photos.  We probably could have taken it in to clean up even more, but we decided it was time to upgrade. I've been a Mac fan for years - that's what I use at work - but my husband has slowly converted. 


"Say hello to my little friend"


I hope to you don't ever experience this.  You can't believe the anxiety I experienced when I thought I had lost everything. The moral of this story is don't download shtuff you don't know anything about, k ladies?  Has anyone else experienced this?  Hugs to all of you.


Jenny

Friday, April 1, 2011

All The Wild Flowers

Yesterday my husband and I went for a short drive into the foothills near our home.  We drove probably about 30 miles up going towards Yosemite.  Normally there are many more flowers but not this year.  Maybe we went too late.  We saw purple lupine, baby blue-eyes or flax, common moneky flower or mustard flower (can't tell which is which), catalina ironwood and of course the ever popular state flower, the California poppy.  You'll see some random pictures of some gorgeous trees and Pine Flat Dam.

Hope you enjoy seeing a little bit of the central California foothills.







 Pine Flat Dam


The Catalina Ironwood is my favorite - it looks like a blanket of snow huh?


 Purple Lupine



 Mustard Flower or Common Monkey Flower


 California Poppies on the side of the road.

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

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