Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Those of you who have been following my blog or who have dropped by at all and remember what it has looked like for more than five years will see a drastic change in it the past couple of days.  As I suspected, a lot of my readers and followers are just like me and very resistant to change.

Well . . . this turns out to be a change-in-progress as not only can I not please myself, but also all of my readers.  Thus, I’m enlisting your help here today – whoever you are and however you happened to have come by here.

This page is the second theme I’ve chosen in the past two days and the third photo across the top.  The first photo I had, along with a multitude of sidebar widgets I had showing, just because they were there to play with, seemed to many of you – along with me after about the third time looking at all of it myself – way too busy and distracting from what I write and want to talk about.   (I’ll show it to you in a moment below.)

The second photo was of a road/path, which reflects the theme of my blog – Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles – but Tom thought was too seasonal and too southwest looking.  It was of a road in Santa Fe, New Mexico taken during a Christmas season.  Thus, Mr. Andrews – my number one guide and editor in all things written and photographic – nixed it and he – as he is 99.9% of the time – correct.

Moving on to photo number three – the current one.  It was taken by none other than Mr. Andrews, himself, nearby over in Pass Christian, Mississippi, at sunset, along the coast highway (you have to look closely at the photo to see the road in it, plus the photo is greatly cropped), a couple of years before Katrina hit us all, taking most of that tree with it, along with all of the old stately homes along that road.

I, with Tom’s highest pleasure, have now decided that I want to keep this photo on here for a while and keep this them, at least for the time being, if and until I can find one that serves as well or better.  The photo is local – south Mississippi – taken by my beloved – Tom – and offers a serene look at why we love living here so much.

So . . . here are the three choices for you to look at and see what you think.  Number 3 – the current one – first:

Now, the Santa Fe, New Mexico photo:

Last, but first on this blog the other day (I know – all of this is backwards), the graphic I started out with:

I guess I’m like Goldilocks and the three bears.  First the photo is too busy.  Second the photo was too seasonal and distant from us (New Mexico – remember that sad saga of our “dream” vacation turned nightmare?).  Finally – third time’s the charm (I hope y’all will agree with me) – I’ve gotten the photo – and cleaner look on my page, sans 57 widgets! – that I like, although I DO terribly miss the way my blog page looked before.  I agree with JoAnn Glock – the MistyLook theme and photo and layout were outstanding.  It was just very outdated and wouldn’t allow me to do much with it. Mainly, I had to give it up because it got hacked and was spewing a lot of spam email out to people.  I hope you didn’t get any of it.

You will note at the top of the page here I have a special place set up now where you can privately contact me, if you do not wish to publicly comment, although I wish you would.  (To comment, you now have to go to the top of each post – see above under the headline – and click on the word comments.  Thanks.)

Hope y’all are having a blessed weekend.  It’s stormin’ here.  Big time.  Very dark, thundery and stormy.  Love it.  Dee