Monday, August 5, 2013

USB Hub

I was walking this weekend on a perfect summer morning, almost clear skies, birds twittering.  I hear this car honking, and honking, so I came to a stop wondering if the driver was trying to get my attention.  Then along came a cute little girl on her bike, she couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old.  The dad came out of his car screaming something like 'Camille!'  'Camille!'  as he ushered her down the road, I guess to hurry home, he spoke a foreign language I didn't recognize, maybe Russian?  I think she must have gone for a long bike ride and didn't seem the least concerned!  The dad must've been driving around looking for her.

Here are some pretty 'weeds' I photographed on the weekend.  The wildflowers are at their best at this time of year, Queen Anne's lace, chickory,  pockets of white, purple and yellow everywhere.












So have you ever seen a USB Hub? It's the grey device in the photo. To some people it's old news but I had never noticed one before until I saw it plugged into my husband M's computer the other day. It has 2 USB drives plugged into it, so they will appear as 2 extra drives on your computer.



12 comments:

Valerie-Jael said...

Lovely photos of those wild flowers! Valerie

Optimistic Existentialist said...

You willl not BELIEVE the serendipity involved here. I have been looking for something that will give me an extra USB port for my computer and wow I see exactly what I'm looking for here in your blog post. Could you email me and tell me where you got it?

Anonymous said...

gorgeous flowers -
Mary x

Icy BC said...

I love wildflowers!
Luckily my laptop has 3 USB ports..

Adam said...

I haven't gotten one but I will get the stick-man shaped one eventually

Plowing Through Life (Martha) said...

That USB hub is really cool!

I love wildflowers, and they are at their best right now.

Anonymous said...

sounds like a frantic time for that Father, so glad it ended well. The wildflowers are in there best show right now aren`t they, soon things will die down, :(,,,,I have never saw this device but I am not very computer savvy!

Kay said...

I have a USB hub and use it all the time. It's wonderful! By the way, that middle photo is of a Bitter Nightshade. right? The berries are very poisonous.

Christine said...

Kay I had no idea, thanks for telling me!

Anonymous said...

It's scary that young kids roam so far from home. They could be kidnapped. Pretty flowers, Christine. Never saw a USB hub before.

Anonymous said...

Used USB hubs years ago when teaching, before computers came with lots of USB ports and still had floppy drives (remember THOSE?) School technology was always behind the most up to date stuff. Now, I store so much in the cloud that I use very little media storage.

Farida said...

The wildflowers look very pretty and first time for me to see such USB!