Once again, I’m at a place where I feel the need to change my posting schedule and themes.
Those who have been with me for a while will know by now that I do this every few months.
I think I maybe like to change with the seasons.
As summer ends and autumn approaches, I’m sensing the need to be less structured for a while and return to random posts.
My feature photo is one of the many bridges I cross on our city’s walking/biking trails.
Do you use photos to guide your posts?
Sometimes, a blogger will write that they’ve run out of ideas for a post, or that their writing well has run dry.
Something that always works for me is to review my thousands of photos.
There’s almost always an idea amongst them.
Yes, I take lots of photos. I’ve done that since I was a teenager and was gifted my first camera.
Photography to me is a magical hobby where I can explore the world either close up or from a distance. Looking for subjects while I’m out for my walks, while we’re out for a drive or on vacation, or even when I’m just hanging out in the house keeps me grounded in the present.
Almost all of my photos are time and date stamped, so they’re also the diary of my life.
Whenever I wonder about a future blog post, I just go to my Amazon photos and start browsing. Before too long, a photo or group of photos (from the over 8,000 I have stored there) will turn on a lightbulb and away I go.
My photo muses lead the way.
It seems that when I theme the days of my posts, I have an easier time coming up with ideas.
The Mon,Weds, Fri routine feels like a better fit than random posts as they pop into my head, because I can sometimes go a long time without a random idea (suitable for a post), and then other times, my brain is a randomness convention and I find I want to post too often.
So far, I haven’t decided on a firm Monday theme, but I have a few ideas, and will post the final decision after this weekend.
Wednesdays will be “Read My Sign” (my take on wordless Wednesday).
“Freestyling Fridays” will be random, because I need a bit of the unplanned and unexpected and maybe you do too.
My feature photo is our recent purchase.
Her name is Lily. She’s the first white vehicle either of us has ever owned, thus the name.
The truck was too difficult for me to handle because I couldn’t judge the length of it for parking and passing. In addition, it’s served its purpose, so we wanted something a bit more economical fuel-wise.
