I usually start off these things with my age, sex & location; I’m 46, female and live in New York.

I’ve been blogging here and there online for about seven years now. That line totally amazes me. Seven years already?

I can’t tell you the exact day I learned about blogs, but I do remember soon after I started one over at Xanga. It was fun joining groups and commenting on each other’s posts. Guess I stayed there about a year and a half before I moved over to angelfire.

The digital camera came into my life while working as an estimator for a custom-made business fixtures company. One day I took a couple of pictures of street scenes and posted them. People began leaving positive feedback, and that was like - wow!

The next thing you know my charge plate was being handed over to a clerk at Circuit City. My Sony 5.0 went everywhere with me, and digital photography became a big part of my blogging life. Eventually that led to a my taking an Introduction to Photoshop course.

For reasons I can’t recall I left Xanga for angelfire, then headed over to SquareSpace before finally landing at Blogger. All those stops added up to just about four and half years. And now I’ve come to play here at WordPress.

I can’t wait to see what will happen.

Re: The Header

The four pictures that make up my header are all from my personal collection.

The Shoes were neatly abandoned in Union Square Park by persons or person unknown to me. Don’t they look like they have a story?

The Horses are in memory of my late brother Joseph. As a child he always loved to pretend to ride them. They live in a recreation area near my home, and I always think of him whenever I see them.

The Basket was sitting out on the sidewalk in front of the building that was my first home. We lived there until my brother was born, and my mother took ill. After that we went to live with my grandmother. I noticed the address on my birth certificate last summer, and decided to go have a look at it. The basket and I were all alone on that street. It’s one of my favorites. Just something about it.

Snowy Beach was snapped while on break from the gaming tables at Bally’s Wild West Casino in Atlantic City.