No Porch Photo Today

No photographs today of the screened-in porch. Once again, I’m stymied by technology. In your comments last week, several of you suggested how I might get the photographs from my cell phone to my computer. The process was to begin with my sending a cell-phone e-mail to myself that would include a photo. First, of course, I had to learn how to send an e-mail from my cell phone. Today’s posting explains the problem with that.

I feel like a waterfall plunging into the great lake of technology.

To begin:

I’ve had a cell phone since last Christmas. A friend gave it to me so that I could text her and her children and thus keep in daily touch. In February, my eldest niece taught me how to text. Yes . . . it took me two months to believe that using a cell phone wasn’t beyond my capabilities.

One April day, Sarah—who’s sixteen—sent me a photograph in her text. I could hardly make out what it was showing me. When I texted my problem to her, she taught me, via texting, how to enlarge the photo so that I could see it more easily. That was a step in the right direction.

Thus, by April, which was some three months after receiving this wonderful—but challenging for me—gift, I could send and receive a text and enlarge a photo sent to me within a text. (I’ve so enjoyed texting and receiving photographs from family and friends.)

In August, once the screened-in porch was complete, Sarah—my sixteen-year-old friend and teacher—asked me to text her a photograph of the porch. Panic! She then, once again via a text, taught me two things: where to look on the phone to take a photo and how to send it in the text. It’s a tribute to her teaching ability that I did both successfully. So a couple of more steps in the right direction.

We are now in late September. Last week’s comments suggested I e-mail the phone photographs to myself. Given that suggestion, I knew I had to learn how to e-mail from the phone. Yesterday I worked at that. It took me a half-hour of deliberation and trial and error to activate the e-mail function of the phone.

Finally, I set it up. Five e-mails from friends appeared. I tried to open them on the cell phone and couldn’t. I gave up on that and tried to figure out how to send myself an e-mail. Another half-hour passed. Finally, I sent one and then came to my computer to see if it showed up; it did. So another step forward.

Now here’s the latest glitch: I can’t find on the cell-phone mail application an icon that takes me to photographs. Nor do I see how to attach them to the e-mail I want to send. This morning, I sent a text to my niece and asked if she could come over some time in the near future and teach me how to use the e-mail function of the phone and how to attach a photo.

I’m hoping that next week, I’ll have taken the next step or two in this process of entering the 21^st century of cell-phone technology. I so hope that next week you’ll see a porch photo here.

Have a good week. Please know that I am grateful for your friendship. Your comments enlighten my day and shore up my spirits when they flag.

Peace.