Realty Bites

If you don’t know, I like to take pictures. As a kid, I tooled around with my all-manual Minolta SRT-201 and thought I was hot stuff. Until, that is, my brother Steve picked up a camera. It was instantly clear that he was the one with creative talent, so I dropped the hobby and didn’t take another photo for decades. Four years ago, a good friend who loves electronic gadgets and knew I was leaving for a month-long trip to Europe gave me a lovely gift — a digital camera that could fit in my pocket. I’ve been having fun with it ever since, without a trace of sibling rivalry, of course.

I know this has nothing to do with real estate, but I thought you might enjoy seeing some wildlife pictures I took recently on an extended trip to Florida.

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Eastern Lubber Grasshopper

I came across an old post on my friend Laura Koehne’s blog this week. It’s from last year (all right, all right, I’m behind in my reading — aren’t you?), but it’s still fresh and relevant today. Laura is a gifted career coach, and she writes movingly about social networking in the modern age. For those of us who, say, write real estate blogs or spend hours on Facebook and Twitter, so much of our time is consumed by electronic interactions that we neglect the people around us. That’s right, people. Remember them? In the old days, social networking was accomplished by getting together for dinner with your family, going bowling with your friends, having coffee or cocktails with your colleagues — you get the idea. What happened to those days? I’m following Laura’s lead and making most of my interactions with other people in person or at least by telephone. I hope you’ll do the same.

Here’s a link to Laura’s post: Why I’m Not Hiding Any More