Of Spring, and colors, and birds bickering... :-)

All photos enlarge, if you click on them

All photos enlarge if you click on them

Why do I put different colors on diff words, above?

{But first, the photo above is the latest pic, of a tree to the west. It keeps leafing out, more and more, each day. It happens so quickly, that if you don't notice and take pics, it almost surprises you. :-) ~~ And now back to the topic at hand...}

Because I have fun with colors. But, I also know from experience, that people can't read each and every soft color, on their own monitors. I've never seen a true Yellow {Yellow}, which is easy to read, for instance. So when I "play in my color box," with words, I wonder who can read them and who can not? Plus, I know from experience, that one gets tired of trying to read print, in too soft/pale a color. Soooo, I guess, I'm opening up another one of those topics on which you can give your opinion,
if you wish to.

Blog typing in soft colors ~
How do you react to seeing blogger's words in color? ~
It's not only a personal preference ~
It also depends on how they look, on our individual computer screens ~
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Lookie! Hosta is leafing out!!!

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.Our flowering Nantick Cherry bush is starting to flower!!! And smells delicious, already.
.But I can't as yet, get a close-up of a blossom. :-( The weird thing about this photo is ~ If I wanted a soft close flower and a clear background, I got it. But I wanted it, the other way too! Who wants clear dirt and bottom of fence?!? -moan- ,-))))

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.The little old bird house on neighbor's house, is getting some action again. But will it be short lived, like other years?
.In previous years, I've noticed birds flying in and out, obviously making a nest in there. Then. Nothing. It's as if they come by ~ think maybe it's cool ~ work on it a little ~ decide nope, they want to move on and find another place. Odd...
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Did anyone ever hear that the male of some little bird species {it's a little hole}, comes north first? He goes around and tries to find a good spot. He begins making a nest. Then she comes north and makes the final decision. Is that so? If so, I'll bet that's what happens! ,-)
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Every year, some male picks this house. And he starts fixing it up. Every year, a female comes and probably hollers at him for being sooooo stuuuuupid, as to pick this *dilapidated* old wreck of a bird house! And trying to foist it off on her, as their nesting place for the season! -giggles- Can't you just *hear it*? Hehhhhhh...
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And he's not about to argue with her. Especially in the spring time! She's very edgy and hormonal as is, and he's not going to argue about that old bird house, if she doesn't like it! So off they go, in search of a spot which will meet with her *exacting standards.* :-)))
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So now ~ next time you hear birds seeming to bicker back and forth, in the trees, they may really be bickering. Why not? I think all that little scenario above, is quite plausible. :-))))

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Parler du fait de remarquer

I wrote the Title in French, because I thought, if I used English, everyone might run away. >,-) This way, I might tweak some people's curiosity enough, that they'll read a bit. And maybe even read all. So, to come clean ~ the Title means 'To speak of commenting.' And if you got this far, hopefully you won't bolt now. Hopefully, you stick around. See if I came up with anything new and different on the topic, for a change. :-)

The Dictionary calls commenting..."A written note intended as an explanation, illustration, or criticism of a passage in a book or other writing; an annotation." We in Blog Land call it ~ {maybe} the life blood of blogging. {Maybe} the most troublesome thing, about blogging. {Maybe} many things. But never, never, never do we say, it's a simple topic.

I have so much trouble with it, that I keep links to Net sites, which discuss it. So I suppose I can just give you links to these, and let it go at that. But, you *know* I *can't* just do that! ,-) Gotta' say something myself. :-) But first, the links...

Do you hope or do you...

On feeling obligated to...

Choosing between...

How not to...

Maybe the one which catches my eye the most is the "Do you hope or do you expect..." one. That one seems to "hit the nail on the head," so to speak. The $64,000 Question, as they say. Getting comments ~ do you expect your readers to comment on your blog? Or do you hope your readers will comment on your blog? When I fully figure that one out, it may solve all my blogging questions/issues. Especially the *biggie* of ~ feeling very, very obligated to comment in the blog, of each and everyone person, who comments in mine.

Maybe, if I figure out "My Personal Philosophy" about how I really feel about comments... Then that may spill over onto how I do comments. If I can finally feel super-comfy with my own views, about comments I get, then why not deal with everyone else, in the same way? This really seems the logical way to do it.

If I decide that I have to have lots of comments... If I decide that I am totally focused on the number of comments I get... If I feel my blogging life is worthless, without lots and lots of comments... Then I'd better figure everyone else feels the same. And act thus. Otherwise, I want one standard for me, and a different standard, for everyone else. Which seems kind of un-fair, from the "get-go."


What is my ideal? What would I like to decide, is my over-all commenting philosophy? What do I really, really want to zero in on?



Well, since I always seem to be trying to find simplicity ~ at least I'm always reading about it! :-) ~ Then simplicity should guide me. So, what's the simplest way {for me} to deal with the total issue of commenting?



To hope to get comments. Not to expect them, for any reason. Not to need them. Not to gauge my personal value/worth, or the value/worth of my blogging, on the number of them. Wow, but that sounds wonderful and freeing and super-duper, to me!!!! Wow! -happy sigh-


So logic says, to hope everyone else, feels the same way. And to not worry, if they don't. Because the only one I am in charge of, is me. And the only one I have any power over, is me. And the only one I should concern myself about, is me. In Blog Land, that is! Blog Land isn't family or duty or necessary or life threatening, or etc. 'Tis totally discretionary. So everyone in Blog Land has to handle their own self, in regard to what's important to them, and how they doooooooo Blog Land.

But this is one of those freeing views, which are so, so, so hard to come by. Funny how many freeing things, are so hard to make part of us, hu? Really funny. Do humans want to make life difficult, for some reason? Do we want to give ourselves as many problems as is possible? Weird. But ~ that is a topic for another day. :-)

Soooooooo ~ I rattled on, about my thoughts and my {hopeful} decision, on this blogging issue of comments. Which issue/comments seems dear to a lot of our hearts. :-) Now it's your turn to chime in. I am one voice. I am one blogger. Doing my own thing. I'd love to hear everyone's voice, on this. Agree. Disagree. Shocked. Hopeful. Turned off by my view. Maybe like part of my view. Everyone's personal views, on blogging. Blogging can be this...a kind of a 'brain storming' of ideas. I say my *something,* in an entry. And then you say your *something,* in a comment. Does that sound great?

We are individuals! We each are free to come to our own conclusions. To me, this is true on everything. But even if you don't agree, that far.... Seems that what each of us does, in Blogging, simply has to be our own decision. I will admit... I hope for lots of chiming in, on this entry. :-))))

Image Source

Where do I find the pictures, I post?

Source for this picture, is Bella Pink

I've been asked, where I find the pretty pictures I put in my blog. I give a click-able link to where I get my pictures, in my entries. See above, in smaller print, under the top picture? It says "Source for this picture, is Bella Pink." And those words are in a different color, than the rest of the words in my entry.

Photo Source

To me, the 'different color' looks like a maroon-ish-red. But I never know what it looks like, on your computer screen. But anyway, it's a different color that all the rest of the entry.

Source

So look for a word or words, in different color... Words which say something like... "Picture Source" or "Source" or etc. And click on those diff color word/words. And you'll be taken to the Net place, where I got the pics.
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I feel it's OK to use them, if I give the source, because that way, I'm not trying to make believe that they are mine. Plus, some Net sites {in some techy way} make it so you can not 'grab' their pics. So, they don't want them to be grabbed, at all. And they take care of this.

Source

If I get all the pics I use in one entry, from one Net place, I put the click-able link to it, at the bottom of my entry. I did that, in my last entry. But today, since I'm using pics from different Net places, I am putting the click-able source link, under each pic.
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And naturally, anyone can tell my own photos, when I use them! They are not the high photographic quality of the ones I grab. Nor do I expect them to be. I'm am an amateur. They are professionals. Which is fine. I'm able to just have fun!!! :-)

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