Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM
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Mallard, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2011
A simple matter
It should be a simple matter to take this photo into Photoshop and remove the weed off this guy's bill, and I'm sure it is, but I'll be darned if I can do it without investing the time to learn to navigate that bloody obtuse program.
I find Adobe's software interfaces in general to be arrogantly obtuse to navigate and Photoshop is especially so. I use Adobe's Lightroom 3 to catalog my pictures and do most of my editing and I've gotten reasonably good at it, but I'll be darned if I can move over into Photoshop and get anything done. The interface is different and not intuitive enough for me to pick up on the fly. Why oh why must it be thus and so, after all they do come out of the same house? Bah!
Night camp
Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Click for Google street view
- Check the weather in San Antonio NM
Proficiency in Knowledge of the World
There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient, to our present purpose, to indicate three. One class lives to the utility of the symbol; esteeming health and wealth a final good. Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet, and artist, and the naturalist, and man of science. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are the wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception. Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale, and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty, and lastly, while he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon, reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
Essay VII, Prudence Ralph Waldo Emerson