How about some changes!

When I first started this blog, I thought I'd be very diligent and post a writing at least once a week. Well, I did one, and then another 5 years later. Hardly consistent or reflecting any kind of diligence.

So, like lots of folks let's reinvent this blog. My interests in technology and social media haven't waned. In fact they've grown. But along the way, I've learned a lot and have decided to get out in the front and create some stuff. It's nice to work on a big commercial site and see work that you've done appear. Or, more accurately ...work that you had a very, tiny, tiny role in creating. It's much riskier to create your own page with text and images and put that out there.I guess I've never been that confident to take those risks. Now, I feel comfortable putting my own work out there. Just as the nike slogan goes, "Just Do It. "


As part of this new risk taker image I've launched my gardening web site. It's still very tiny with just a few pages, but in time it will grow. You can view it at urban saratoga gardening. It's a site devoted to one of my life-long hobbies: gardening. Since I've taken web development and Dreamweaver classes, I can now create my own site. And to help me develop good content and reasonable art work for that site, I'm taking a class in Photoshop this summer. The instructor wants us to post assignments into a blog. So, I'll be using this blog for that.


The photo that appears at the top of this blog is a "before" photoshop. This is probably my most favorite plant: a lavender rhododendron. Despite objections from my gardener I bought it in Home Depot for about half what it would have cost at a "professional" nursery. I put in a shady corner of my front yard and it has just bloomed away every year. It never disappoints me. Last year I got very brave and did some trimming to shape the plant a bit. I didn't want it getting just tall, but rather to be shorter in the front and taller in the back. It survived my clippers and put on a nice show this spring. Maybe I'll find a way to use the photo in one of my assignments.