How do I get an email when my friends post new pictures to flickr?
The answer is simple but a little tricky to find. In your account setup on Flickr go to the Email section and in the "Receiving activity notifications email" and check "When your friends and family upload pictures"
See below.
[So you also need to make sure that the people you want emails for are marked as friends or family and not just a regular contact!] That's done by marking as a friend or family in the 'Edit contact' page when viewing contacts
Enjoyed a nice weekend starting on Friday. Had the day off and took my mom to look at an apt and enjoy a deaf senior citizens BBQ party. She saw friends she hadn't seen in decades and got caught up on all the gossip.Saturday, I had an impromptu trip into the city to check out the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I hadn't been there in over 5 years and forgot how nice it is. It's hard to take a bad picture there. The draw for me was the exhibit of mandalas they had. All lovely and well worth the rainy afternoon trip in. The reward for the trip was a home cooked puerto rican meal made by a friends mother. Mouth watering is how I'd describe it.
Sunday, I attended the NJ Deaf Fest. It's a country fair kind of thing for deaf families and friends. The exhibits and entertainment are targeted towards deaf folks and I volunteered some time to sit at the Children of Deaf Adults table to hand out information and tell about the organization. All in all a great weekend. Happy Monday!
View Larger Map I've been taking a lot of pictures lately haven't I? I'm reading a guide for photography that says you need to take pictures every day when possible and practice every function on the camera at least three times. Makes sense to me..I"m a big fan of overlearning.I took these today at the Great Swamp National Refuge which is one of my favorite places to be. I'm so lucky lucky that it's local to me which means I can go any time I want to without feeling guilty about wasting gas.Enjoy the pics!
Yesterday afternoon, I made a little trip to a local cemetery that I drive past every day. Hillside Cemetery is a cemetery founded in the late 1800's and is the final resting place of a number of historical figures and a celebrity or two. Dudley Moore from Arthur fame was laid to rest here after a long illness. He spent his final days in my town at the home of a beloved friend and after reading about his burial in 2002, it was nice to finally see his grave siteI have to say I was touched by the size of the cemetery and the stillness. I am sure I will be going back to take some more pictures. Here are the shots from yesterday, if you scroll down the page, and hover over the black space, more pics should be added. If you have a problem seeing the pictures, they are here. Enjoy!
View Larger MapAfter a rainy camping trip with very little opportunity to take photos, I took a quick side trip to the Deserted Village at Watchung Reservation here in Central NJ. The light was good and I got to spend some time learning my new camera. Here are the pictures. Enjoy!
My mom and I had a nice little trip to Staten Island NY which is the quietest borough out of all of the boroughs of New York City. I love being surprised and boy were we pleasantly surprised to find a beautiful garden tucked away within the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. The center is a historic maritime site that was converted to a public park. I'd been before but didn't know they also had a beautiful formal Chinese garden. Here are the pics. I am still learning my way around my birthday present to myself [e.g. a Nikon D5000 camera] so hopefully the pictures do the garden justice.Enjoy!
After having a terrific Rosh Hashannah dinner with friends on Saturday, Sunday was the day to work it all off. I met up with two friends and like Japanese tourists, the three of us took our cameras on a photo walk. We started on Riverside Drive at 79th street to see the new addition to the Riverside Park. This stretch between 79th and 57th street is very nicely done and faces mostly Trump properties on the land side so you know no expense was spared. The best parts were where they preserved the old ship yard details and commemorated the work that was done previously on that shore.
Next we went over to the new Highline Park which is a public park built on top of old elevated train lines. The park itself is kind of like a highway but instead of road for cars, it's a walk way for pedestrians with wild flowers and grasses on both sides. There was lots to see as it stretches from the Chelsea to the Meat packing district. It was also very popular as the narrow walk way was filled with lots of people enjoying the sun and sights. We spotted a few celebrities [actually I did] and were very glad that the park was not closed as it does get so full that they no longer allow people up the stairs onto the walk.All in all a great weekend. Here are the pictures from the Hudson river and Highline Park walk. Enjoy. [note: if you don't see a wall of photos below, then be sad and click here to see the set page at flickr.]
This past weekend was great. It started with helping Rob move his things to his new apt on Friday. He's moved in the same town I am in so that will be nice to have someone who can dogsit and water the plants while I"m away.
After that relatively painless move, I high tailed it to IKEA to pick up a sofabed and some other items. Of course no visit to IKEA would be complete without a swedish meatball and gravalax lunch. These foods alone make me want to go to Sweden. On Saturday morning I drove up to the Catskills region of NY. I got to spend some time with an old friend from high school and her lovely wife. She got us the weekend home of a celebrity friend to stay at which of course is much nicer than staying in a hotel. It was picture perfect and in the adirondack style that I love so much.
We enjoyed the scenery of the Catskills region of NY and by Saturday night we were ready for the reunion. It was quite a time warp sensation for me as it was my 25th year reunion and my first. Some of the faces hadn't changed at all! Everyone looked great and was happy to see everyone else. Sunday was a day of travel back home and also redecorating as I now have the house to myself again. It'll be quite an adjustment but I'm looking forward to having more space and time to do the creative things that I neglected recently. That and getting in better shape! :)
Lately, I've been tracking my happiness on https://www.trackyourhappiness.org It's an interesting system. A few times a day you get an email that prompts you to fill out a brief survey. Things like how well did you sleep, how long did you sleep, what are you doing now?, are you talking with others now? etc. The survey responses are collected and then graphed so that over time you get a picture of what you're doing when you're happiest. It's interesting in that not only is the data interesting, but the things you realize answering the questions are as well!Here's a little graphic of what has been making me happiest lately. No surprises there huh?
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