Catalogs? Folders? Collections? vs. Aperture Projects

Forgive my denseness. I'm an Aperture user who is looking at Lightroom 4.
One of the features that I like best about Aperture is the very simple Project paradigm. I'm an advanced amateur (I don't market my stuff, but once in a while a publication will stumble across one of my pics and license it. Like this one <http://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/5829530628/sizes/o/in/photostream/>, which appeared in a nature guide recently). I photograph a wide variety of things--from tiny creepy-crawlies to birds to architecture to astrophotography to garden-variety family snapshots.
TMI there. My point is that I like the uncluttered list of Projects in Aperture's left column; it could hardly be simpler. Projects: Arachnids. Chicago Astro-Imaging Seminar. Product photos for Mr. NNNN....
Catalogs? Folders? Collections? Which of these, if any, is the equivalent of Aperture's simple list of Projects?
This one little bit of info will get me off to a good start. Thanks!
David Illig

Thanks again for your time.
I'm not certain that we are working very differently from each other, you in LR and me in Aperture (and in LR if I decide to stay with it), but you have nonetheless added to my understanding of LR. The answer to your question is keywords. I will find all of my snow photos that way, if I want. But a Collection might save me a bit of time if I remember that our historic two-meter snowfall occurred in 2010—and I if I forget that I will probably have also forgotten how to make a photograph by that time and it won't matter. It seems to make sense for me to have Collections in addition to keywords for other singular or rare events—my trip to Chicago for a seminar at the Adler Planetarium on a particular astro-image processing application, for example—and, apparently, you do the same thing. The Collection is named Adler Trip and the photos also have the keywords Chicago, Adler, Planetarium, Pixinsight... It's just a matter of having more than one way of performing a task, I think.
I also have a smart collection (or the Aperture equivalent at this early stage of using Lightroom) of my five-star photos. I'm somewhat fickle, however, and I sometimes look at a five-star photo and decide it's not as good as I once thought, and I demote it.
I should also confess that I'm a browser and a dawdler. I have that luxury by virtue of being retired. If I'm looking for pics of the fascinating and beautiful spider Neoscona crucifera, for example, I might prefer to take a detour through my Arachnids Collection instead of using the keyword. One may stumble across half-forgotten treasures that way. That luxury derives from not having a client breathing down my neck waiting for a photo.
I'll bet that you don't have the keyword stung to identify individual wasps that have stung you while you were trying to photograph them .
Many thanks,
David
Neoscona crucifera <http://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/6064379518/sizes/o/in/photostream/>

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