To name a thumb-drive: Bring up the "My Computer" panel. All the connected drives and storage devices should show. Right click on the thumb drive, and then click on properties. At the top of the properties panel is a box for the name of that device. It will be blank if the device has never been named. Type in the name you wish to use and then click "apply". This name is written to the storage device. Thus, when a thumb drive is removed from one computer to another, its name goes with it. A name can be changed or removed by using the steps above. To remove a name, merely delete all the characters in the name box and click "Apply". This procedure also applies to floppy disks. This precedure should work for rewritable CDs and DVDs as well. I'm not sure how it works for for "write-once CDs".

Carol, great shot! You captured it well. Valerie, thanks for the info. One never thinks about all the hard work that goes into the making of some things.

aliska, it's a Gulf Fritallary. They were all over the place last year but I decided I didn't want the chrysalises hanging all over the house this year so I pulled up all the - well, the name of the plant they like escapes my mind right now.

Wow, I can almost smell it!!