A blogger friend of mine recently asked if I was still blogging, because I haven't posted in a really really long time, about 6 months.� It was a good wake-up call for me.� I've had a lot going on...

A blogger friend of mine recently asked if I was still blogging, because I haven't posted in a really really long time, about 6 months.� It was a good wake-up call for me.� I've had a lot going on in my life (some good, some not-so-good; it all balances out somehow and just takes up time; maybe I'll share some of it down the road) and somehow the blog fell to the bottom of my 'things to do' list.� There's a bunch of other stuff on the to-do list I haven't done either.� Anyhow, I don't suppose I can totally catch up for 1/2 year of missing posts, but I'm gonna try.

I thought for fun I'd start with a quickie post of a few things that annoy me lately, to let you know I'm still the same old snarky blogger I was 6 months ago.� (I think this great blue heron was pretty annoyed that this fish didn't fit in his mouth, and I think the fish was pretty upset that the heron repeatedly picked him up and tossed him around.)� *By the way, all photos in this post are mine exclusively.� So here goes:

1) Crooked horizons on photos, unless intentional for a specific reason.
�It only takes a moment, whether on your phone, tablet, laptop, or whatever, to straighten your horizon, as I've done in the photo above.� You don't need Photoshop to fix it.� Also crooked horizons on paintings.� I have an artist friend who does lovely plein air landscape paintings.� Here horizons are always slightly off-kilter and she doesn't realize it and I don't dare tell her (she doesn't respond well to critique of any kind).� Having one of her paintings in my home would be like having a painting hanging crooked on the wall; it would drive me bananas!� I wish she would notice it on her own.

2) Boomerang videos.�
Why do you think I want to see the same jittery movement over and over and over again?� I don't.�� They give me headaches.� Please stop.

3) Instagram stories.�
I mean, I admit I do look at them sometimes (particularly those by 1bike1world; if you've never� heard of him, check him out.� He's a lovely young Scottish man traveling the world on a bike, who rescued a kitten he found who now is his traveling companion). But anyhow, they annoy me so much when there's text and the image flips before I finish reading it and then I can't get it back again to finish reading it.� Or I have to watch the whole damn story again to see the one part with the text I didn't finish.� Ugh.

4) Over-saturated colors on autumn photos.�
Autumn colors are beautiful on their own.� I can understand someone giving the colors a little saturation to pump them up, or even warming the color balance a little, but dramatically over-saturating the colors make them look fake, not beautiful.� The pic above is straight from the camera, unedited.�

5) Profile photos with Snapchat filters.� I don't have a lot to say about this.� The cutesy stuff simply gives me the creeps.

That's enough for now.� Next post will be back to art education stuff, including the finished projects I was posting about last April, and what my students are working on now.� By the way, here's a link to two other posts where I've previously written about pet peeves of various sorts: PET PEEVES POSTS.

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