This photo was taken at the Reader Rock Garden on 26 July 2013. Though the sun is shining this morning so far, we had more snow the last couple of days. Six months of so much white makes people desperate for colour. I'm not getting out with my camera, other than a walk a few days ago, when we saw the Long-tailed Weasel. I'm still not driving on those snow-covered backroads, though I'm really, really itching to get out there. It's -7C today, with a windchill of -14C.

What a slow day on Flickr - gee, I wonder if the new format has anything to do with that, ha. Only half to a third of the more normal number of total views. I'd rather think that lots of people are out enjoying themselves today, rather than completely baffled by the new Flickr!

Still sorting out my new computer and all the related mess, which is one of the main reasons I'm not getting out anywhere. The last thing to go "wrong" was when I bought yet another external hard drive a few days ago - a 3 TB Western Digital "My Book" . Before I went to the store, I had read a handful of forum comments on Google about Western Digital and most were positive. However, after I had bought the drive, and set it to do an automatic back-up, after two hours or so, it stopped working and I got the error code 0x8078002A. Googling it, I discovered that Windows 7 does not work with 3 TB external drives - need to do more research, as I'm not sure it works even with 2 TBs. Interesting that the sales guy encouraged me to buy the 3 TB one, as it was only a few dollars more expensive than the 2 TB. They have a no return policy on an opened box, which is really annoying. I've had so much trouble with external hard drives that I'm beginning to lose all confidence in them as a back-up!