Everybody knows..

I love Apple..
I should go to work for them. I have ideas they haven't thought of yet, improvements they could make, and I can't say enough good about what they do already.

This is my new macbook, I bought the white one, and got mine before the new OS came out in October, so this one comes with the new OS. You get iphoto, the webs best way to organize your photos, and you can make web pages too, easily. You can share that with family, they can add photos and take photos off the site. It can be private or public.
Of course you get i tunes, but if you have a PC you can download itunes too for tunes and movies, and books. This book is complete with built in camcorder and mic, so you can call your friends and see them for free. It should be the official computer of the social world!

This computer isn't just about work, it's mostly about interaction, and entertainment, but serves business needs too.
I take it with me out of town, drop into a coffee shop, get my mail, connect with friends, have my music, photos, etc along. And at Starbucks you can download music they play at the store..I haven't done that yet. The starbucks I have been to in Edmonds is not online with wifi.

Hey, I wonder if Apple has a day of the week where they offer discounts to people over 50?
I asked yesterday at a Starbucks in a mall where Tuesday was seniors day, Starbucks doesn't, but should start, and apple really should too.

Anyway, I tell everybody about my macbook, and sooner or later, somebody I knew is gonna buy one, My Grandson is saving his money for one already. He likes garage band, and of course itunes..If all my friends had macbook, we could conference call, and three of us be on cam and mic together, or groups on together. Like I have a party each year with a few online group, and if any of them had macbook, we could watch each other open presents, etc.

I have a friend in The Netherlands and one in Italy I'm hoping to connect with, a a friend at Rutgers University I talk to sometimes. I also haver great ideas about how this could connect people in groups. Of course you can use a PC and a cam too, but apple is so user friendly, intuitive, and of course we are the intuitive age. PC's much you down with virus protection software, etc. And with a mac, you can also have a PC (with virtual PC) but no PC gives you apple.

I guess apple is making it's way into the heart of youth today, my Grandson was a PC kid, but he has been switching over to mac. His Dad, too, both musicians. The ipod has created attention, I think, for intutive products.

So, yeah, maybe I need to get a job at Apple computer.

You could say this macbook is my best friend, mostly cause it connects me easily, anywhere, wirelessly,to all my best friends.. 'Mollycoddle says', go ahead, spoil yourself, buy macbook...

Lets talk about The Big Apple.. ItunesU, Podcasts, (free stuff) and Macbook, ipods, more...

Christmas is around the corner already!
I usually post some of my favorite gifts, so here is probably my most favorite, anything by Apple Computer!

I took this photo with my macbook!



A perfect gift anytime:
One of the best gifts you can give anyone and everyone is an itunes gift certificate!

Just click below to go to itunes...for movies, and songs, and more...

{The Soundtrack and Audiobook for Into the Wild, the major motion picture based on the book by John Krakauer, and directed by Sean Penn. The movie soundtrack, released on September 18, 2007, features music from Eddie Vedder. It includes top songs, "Hard Sun" and "Rise."}

Check out Podcasts on itunes, like; Coffee Break Spanish, (15 minutes of Spanish a day on your latte break),"This American Life with Ira Glass," "Fresh Air with Terry Gross,".. Hey, cool, and these programs are free!


{KT Tunstall's newest album, Drastic Fantastic, was released on September 10th, 2007. This Scottish singer/songwriter is similar in sound to Dido and Fiona Apple, and has played shows supporting Joss Stone. Hit songs on this record include "Hold On" and "Hopeless."}

iTunes Essentials: are playlists of music designed to introduce you to a new genre or help you keep up-to-date on the latest tunes. A text link to iTunes Essentials is available in the interface. Check out iTunes Essentials yourself on iTunes.

Don't stop there!! Get macbook! I have a new macbook, one of the programs is photobooth, I can take a picture with my computer!

Remember those fun old booths you used to climb into with friends to take weirdo pics sticking out your tongue, etc?
Well now you can lug one around with you! Macbook Cooks! You gotta get a mac! Complete with builtin webcam and mic of course. How easy is that to talk to your best friends, and meet your cyber friends from France?

Talk to Mom, and Dad? (boring), ok, but maybe introduce Dad to your new boyfriend online,,hey that's pretty safe!
Watch the Grandkids take their first steps, say 'Gamma' for the first time, and throw you cookie kisses!

My newest photobooth shots: Join my fun! Go Mac!

Led Zepplin,others added to itunes..

Wow, Zepplin, and just in time for Christmas.. nice to have them on itunes now. Look you can get this complete Led Zeppelin remastered set is available to download for $99.99
It's a 165-track digital box set of the group's 13 legendary albums. You can't go wrong with a gift like this!
I'll be giving itunes gift cards for Christmas again, it's always a hit with my family. My kids love love shopping for music.
It's amazingly entertaining to sit down at my computer in itunes for an evening or for 5 minutes to get a new song, or a list of songs to burn on a Cd or upload to your ipod.
I do a Christmas CD every year, but haven't started it yet. It's nice to have special Christmas music in the car or especially for Christmas dinner.
My last years CD had some nice piano, and celtic music. I will add that list when I am on my desktop. I still have not synched my two computers. lol
Link to Zepplin...
Here is the link for the gift certificates, remember come Dec 24th, still no gift for some last minute person,, I always count on itunes! Send straight to their email address the night before Christmas:



I have Christmas cards to make, and I am planning on making a few Christmas Skirts, in red, for lounging Mrs Santa's. Worn with cozy loose fitting tan and red wool socks, ahh, put my feet up by the fire and get toasty warm while watching a movie from itunes too. I love making holidays into relaxed lazy days with family or alone by the fire..munchin' on brownies, and sippin' eggnog. Last night I watched the movie The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and got a surprise phone call, too, good news...
Here is a link to Ratatouille
I could just curl up with my Grandson Jeremy and watch this if I were in Austin, but since I'm not, I can send it as a gift to my daughter so she can curl up with him, and the kids at home.

This link is nice to get last years music favs..


Here is the list of my Christmas music last year. Click to enlarge:
Here is my CD I put together last year fror Christmas from itunes..

Red products save lives...

(PRODUCT) RED Special Edition iPod models and Apple gives a portion of the purchase price to fight AIDS in Africa. This is a gift that when you give it, you give to yourself.....it's in the spirit of Christmas...

Make your gift even more memorable with our signature gift wrapping and free laser engraving.



also red itunes gift cards.

Finally, I, who conceptualizer and have my idea to Apple computer via a CS rep , for the illuminated keyboard, now owns the illuminated keyboard which I wanted on Apple computers for the past 10 years. So Happy to have this now!

Goethe

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!" 

Holiday Music Time (iTunes is Free you know)

I'm a little puzzled that so many PC'ers haven't downloaded iTunes yet..??
I was at a friends last week who didn't have iTunes or a good photo program on his computer, so I downloaded iTunes for him on his laptop, and got him the google free photo program , Picasa, and immediatly he had his photos in order, and had access to podcasts (like Coffee break Spanish, 15 minutes of Spanish (Spain style, per day) . Both are totally free, and also iTunes University, (free lectures from universities all over the country on every topic you can think of.

AND.. you can buy music for 99 cents per song. The itunes library organizes your music and you can make albums to burn, or upload on your ipod.
Seriously everyone, Itunes is a must have these days. It takes 5 minutes to download, and it's fREE.

One of my favorite gifts to give is a gift certificate to Itunes for Christmas, birthdays, my family, (Grandkids and kids, and friends) iTunes Gift card online, and it is a last minute gift that gets there just in time..online..Oh, and of course, you can get movies, too and baseball series, your favorite TV shows, etc.
It's truly amazing what they offer.



I know all my friends say I should be selling MacIntosh, yeah I love Apple Computer.

Here's a link for Christmas Music: Get started now, have one done for Christmas season, and make a special one for Christmas Dinner.

Have fun, click the link below.
The iTunes Holiday Gift Guide – Give the Gift of Music

Apple of my Eye

I refer to my computer, of course!

Springs, sprung!

It is sooo beautiful here now, days are either crisp and cool, or sunny and warm, unusual combination for us here in early March. I am hoping for a mild summer, not warmer than 80 degrees! I have put my order in! These are apple trees in bloom at the farm where I used to live and where I visit freinds often. I found this in A Course in Miracles, today, I love it, it is divine."There is a light in you that cannot die: whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you. All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground so that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks deep to a whisper round your holy head. The light in you is what the universe longs to behold.All living things are still before you, for they recognize who walks with you. The light you carry is their own. And thus they see in you their holiness Itself, saluting you as savior and as God. Accept their reverence because it is due to holiness itself, which walks with you, transforming in It's gentle Light all things unto it's Likeness, and it's purity.
From, A Course in Miracles..... lesson # 156

My word!!!

( An Aside, artwork by Daisy...
...when the tough go shopping?)

I am a Mac User! I have worked with PC’s, a few years ago now, didn’t care for them at all. I was the one who had to get the computers up and running, fix problems, etc. Not to mention use the programs. So 3 years ago when I got a new computer, this G4, I didn’t get any msft. programs! None! I have been using Apple works for processing, and didn’t care what else there was, because I had experienced msft. Programs as being unfriendly, and not designed for creative people.

A dear friend gave me a copy of Word recently, and guess what? I love it! Microsoft is coming along. I like being able to mail a document directly from word to my apple mail program that I also love. I am grateful for this gift, and for the new challenges in learning that I have now… along with my new Adobe software for writing. I think I will just keep my word!

Summertime

Mt Shuksan, Thursday 

..and Mt Baker

Cosmos

Hydrangeas in one of my sculptural vases...

..and just out of the oven a few hours ago, 

Rhubarb apple pie...yes very tasty..

mac book air?

I gave them my idea for the illuminated keyboard.
Now I almost wish I had waited for this version, but it starts at about 1799.00.
.Worth every penny I'm sure.
The illuminated keyboard itself is worth a pretty price ( to me).
How many years ago did I begin bugging them about illuminated keyboards? And every store I went into.
Too bad I'm inventive but don't know how to put these deals together.
Oh well, maybe in my next life I'll pair up with a business genius.

Until then, I'm just a receiver ( another) for the great ideas floating around the universe)

One among many...

Isn't this cool tho? Looks maybe 1/4 inch thick?

It's Pumpkin and Spider Time, Mushroom and Apple Cider Time and Time for Shakti to pay Another Visit Time

My dear friend from Italy, Shakti. 

She was here in the fall some years ago. 

We had so much fun. 

What a beautiful woman she is and such a nice photo. 

Shakti teaches meditation and non duality in Italy and other places. 

I miss you, come back!!

A Jewelers suzani. 

From the Silk Road. 

A pacific giant pumpkin. 

It didn't become giant though!

And a few shrooms in the yard. I think deer have been eating them. 

Thank you Shakti for the lovely pic

And sending you big hugs. 

My Beautiful Crab Apple.

Tulip fields are beautiful in the Skagit Valley, Corona Virus requirements not being honored

Soon peonies will be blooming. This year I must get a coral charm peony. 

They’re absolutely beautiful they turn apricot! 

This pink one is very fragrant though. 

Blossoms

Above are photos of home below tulip fields then my neighbors beautiful trees, shrubs that I thank them for every year when the color pops in spring. 

Flower people are the best people! 

Tulips

Dried hydrangeas grow roots. 

I keep them year round 

I love watching dried flowers rooting in a jar! 

Wash the roots weekly with warm water and freshen their water. 

Further down, my dried peony petals on the bookcase. 

And cut tulips from another year. 

I didn’t get out of my car on this trip except to snap a photo of a few apple blossoms. 

No drive into Laconner either. 

It would have been tempting to eat out but I know I wouldn’t, I don’t want anyone else preparing my food during this viral challenge. 

I have to say that if you’re worried or alone or fearful for yourself, there’s always someone else in worse shape with needs not met. It’s good

To think about them and not panic. 

Military personnel, prisoners, children separated from parents, those dying alone and those caring for them. Think about others. 

I pray it all just goes away now forevermore! 

Peanut the squirrels names, all of them I call Peanut.

They find me now when I’m outside, ..Lined up behind me waiting for their peanut. 

I carry them in my pocket now that the hunter has become the hunted.