While living in Yankton does have its charms and benefits for our family, being near major museums and such definitely is not one of them. It would be fabulous to live close enough to make a day of going to, say, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Right now there's an exhibit there about the beginnings of paper photography. My actual experience developing photographs is limited to one semester my sophomore year of college where I took a photography class as part of my journalism requirements. I wasn't terribly gifted at it, but I suppose with additional practice I could have managed fairly well. Thankfully I never had to make use of those primitive skills during my time at various small newspapers. If I ever would go back to journalism - and I'm not sure that I would - I have a feeling that those skills are even less in demand now that there's much more use of digital photography than there was more than eight years ago when I was actually employed with a newspaper.

Time to get everyone ready for storytime.