Mountain Muses

     My mother-in-law has just mailed us three videotapes. One is of old home movies and the other two are slides. Music has been added. They sit on my side table. I have a great project for the next rainy day! Right now, spring has dressed up the landscape in Easter egg colors.

     At a local discount store I bought this gadget that will run your VCR into your computer. You can make DVDs and it is simple enough for me to use it! Already I've put about 10 of our videotapes on DVDs. Last week I did all the sports ones I could. Before that I put our daughter's high school drama performance of Smoke on the Mountain on DVDs, for us and another cast member.

   The media calls it migrating. I guess you have to change formats for these precious memories every so often. I'm so glad I scrapbooked about all of our kids pictures. Nothing beats an honest to God photo. I had our slides made into pictures.

  Our daughter got one of those LED photo albums from her husband. It looked great on her desk at work. I have a zillion photos saved into my computer and make back-up discs often. As a nation, we have become hooked on digital photography. I'm sure I will take many more this weekend. Now as an artist, I can paint based on many of these photos, even the older ones. They migrate onto canvases as well!