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[mxcatmoon]

First photo is of a rare snowy Christmas in Georgia. I drove up to the mountains to enjoy the treat.



Second photo was taken at one of the many small towns I drove through on one of my rides. It was heartening to see small town Georgia promoting mask wearing and voting (there was even a Democrat election sign along the street).



Third photo is a rare selfie. I normally hate photos of myself, but I loved the waterfall in the background and felt it made a perfect selfie.

Looking through my photos for this post didn't take long. It's been a rough few years, and I haven't been out with my camera as much as I used to. I miss it and hope to remedy that in 2021.

I'd write more, but I'm having a devil's time getting this to post correctly. One of the reasons I'm not big on using DW for a photography platform.

Comments

[wherdafux_d_cat]

Great trio of pics, frames 2020 nicely. Snow in GA, how 2020! I really like the colors in the second pic and your waterfall selfie is definitely one to show off. Happy 2021!

[mxcatmoon]

Thanks! Happy 2021 to you, too! Hopefully the light at the end of the tunnel is coming (and not a train!)

[wherdafux_d_cat]

Fingers crossed!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Ooh, pretty!!

[mxcatmoon]

Thanks!

[yourlibrarian]

I drove up to the mountains to enjoy the treat.

I can see why! It reminds me of an approach to a park in California I drove one time. Have you lived in the area long?

And yes, heartening indeed. Logically, I'd think that small towns would be more vigilant than large ones because any transmittable disease could not only spread quickly in a small population, but chances are high people would know of one another. Not that there's been a lot of logic going around in recent years. But perhaps a sign of things to come in this month's election 🙂

The waterfall looks very nice. I'm very fond of them myself but there are none in our area. I am at this moment looking at the waterfall calendar next to my computer!

Sorry to hear about the posting problems! Is there something in particular that kept happening?

[mxcatmoon]

I've lived in a suburb of Atlanta for about 15 years. Every few years we may get a slight dusting of snow that's gone in a few hours. The mountains sometimes see more, like this year.

Ah, but this is small town Georgia, where Trump is God and Covid is a hoax. I take a lot of drives to more rural areas, and definitely see less mask use. It was also before the wonderful turning of Georgia blue, which hasn't happened since Carter. Yes, it looks like the tide is starting to turn here now though, thankfully.

Sorry you have no waterfalls close by. There are tons of them around here, the biggest issue I have is whether or not they are accessible to me with my mobility issues.

DW is often screwy when I want to do certain formatting things. First it wouldn't place everything behind a cut, just the first paragraph. I went in and moved the end cut twice and it returned to the middle again. Then there's the issue of posting the photos in the first place, Rich Text didn't work so I pasted the url in html. I rarely post photos (that's part of why). I remember I did figure out a trick to get them to post when I'm using Rich Text but it was awhile ago and I've forgotten it. I'm only passible with html, only the basics.

[yourlibrarian]

I was wondering if you'd seen a change in your weather patterns. We've been in Illinois now for about 18 years and we're definitely seeing milder winters and much less snow. For example we've technically gotten snow about 10-12 times but it's such a light dusting that it's often gone by 10 AM and nothing has yet lasted past 24 hours.

Well hopefully baby steps but still steps!

Ah, of course. What you said just explained to me why someone else who has often complained about image posting here is also wrestling with it. I do all posts in HTML and haven't run into an issue but with phones in particular, Rich Text is a lot easier to do, and of course that's generally how people are taking and storing them as well, on phones. So it's apparently some bug on the Rich Text posting form.

[mxcatmoon]

Well, the summers seem to be hotter (or maybe I'm just older, not sure). Mild winters are our normal, although we see cold spells too. It's been in the 30's in the mornings, which is cold for us. Can't say I see a pattern in it.

I find html to be a pain in the a** for anything more than short simple things, because if I accidently type one little thing different/wrong it won't work and I have to go searching for what I need to correct. Just not my cup of tea, especially with my older eyes. But the Rich Text here at DW has always been buggy, making it necessary a lot of the time. It used to be worse though -- for a long time I was unable to do a cut at all with RT. I end up using a combo of both, switching between them when there's something I can't do in Rich Text. It's a pain.

Hmmm... could these kinds of issues be part of why fandom isn't big on DW? I'm not on Tumblr or Discord, so I have no idea what all is involved in formatting things there (well, technically I have a Tumblr account, but once in a blue moon do I ever visit it).

[yourlibrarian]

I do think that the HTML issues affect participation on DW generally. I joined LJ at a time when knowing at least a few HTML codes were a must. But many younger fans don't use anything that doesn't have a dedicated app, much less something without a Rich Text interface. I always use the HTML tab but if your experience is common it certainly explains why posting can be a trial.