Thanks to you all for the very warm welcome, and the wonderful advice and encouragement! I have waited almost 3 years to get a "real" camera that would give me some control over what I was doing and am having a marvelous time with it - I have so many things I want to do ("when I get my camera, I can....." has been my mantra), and then do again, and then redo, and then try this, and that and the other - my imagination truly is the only limit, and since I have a very vivid imagination, I see no limits at all! :-)