I teach digital photography to seniors at a local junior college and a separate class on Picasa. The last class I had to tell them that I had good news and bad news. Good news: Picasa had been acquired by Google. Bad news: Picasa had been acquired by Google to eliminate competition for their own new cloud-based photo editing venture. BTW, Picasa works well with my Windows 10 computer. There are several free-trial packages in the market, but none that have impressed me. I'll try Affinity. The real problem is that a high percentage of seniors want a program like Picasa that will handle most of their editing needs without a steep learning curve -- and that is free or truly low cost.

Got up this morning and looked out the window only to discover that it was going to be a beautiful day. Like most pretty days I decided to head to the lake to take some pictures. I loaded the kayak on the truck, gathered up my camera gear and told the wife goodbye and I will see you later. I called in a country ham, egg and cheese sandwich at my local restaurant and stopped by on the way to pick it up. I had a 45 minute drive to the lake so I had plenty of time to eat it on the way. Got to the lake and unloaded the kayak, loaded up the camera gear and shoved off. I decided to check the camera to make sure I had it set the way I wanted it to take BIF pictures. Turned it on to take a test shot and "nothing". I charged the battery before leaving home but this is where the senior moment comes in. I left it in the charger. Well I am now 45 minutes away from home, sitting in my kayak with no battery for my camera. As much as I hated to do it I called my wife to see if she would bring me the battery because it would take me twice as long to travel both ways to go get it. I knew it would cost me but that was quicker than me going home and back. I got the battery, my wife now has a new pair of shoes and two new outfits. Getting old sure is expensive.