I congratulate those of you who faithfully add to your blogs day after day! It ain’t easy! I have written a thousand blog entries in my head since I started this blog in May! Very few of them have made it into WordPress.
I don’t like to write simple entries. The insatiably curious journalist in me will not leave well enough alone; if I start writing about something – say, the interesting color of the roc
ks in Copper Mountain, I want to know how they got that way. Was this town founded on mining copper? Do companies still excavate? How many tons of copper were lifted from the place at its peak? And as I observe the rocks seem to be more extraordinarily colorful and striated than other rocks I’ve seen throughout many hikes throughout Colorado, I want to know if that is merely my imagination, or if I have discovered a true gem of information.
See what I mean? I can’t leave it alone! Then I have to go out on the web, searching and searching till I find these answers. And, of course, in the process, I will discover many other nuggets (no pun intended!)
And, of couse I want YOU to know what I know, I so I add links to these websites. I also realize that if I were to actually write out all the information I find, my blog would be way too LONG – one of the cardinal sins of blogging. And besides, I’d like to give you the option of clicking on the link – or not. You may not care like I do!
Do I have the time to do that? It entails not simply downloading photos, but putting them in the computer and logging them in so I know where to find them later. And of course, uploading them into the blog; a blog entry without photos is a boring blog! No matter how fantastic the writing, people like pictures! Since I carry 
my camera around almost everywhere (got a huge purse for that very reason), taking the photos is not usually the problem. But taking the right photos, the photos that illustrate my blog points, now that takes some thinking! Or I have to write my blog around the photos I took. This takes some storytelling technique. Plus – and this is where I get hung up the most – do I know where my downloading cable is to download the photosrrect spot on my hard drive with the correct labels so I can find them later. (This is a photo I took yesterday while hiking with Chet in Copper Mountain. More about that later – if I can get around to it!)
And even though you may have the latest and greatest computer equipment and internet connection, it may still be painfully slow waiting for even one image to upload! You get tired of finding other things to do while you wait!
Phew! By now, no matter how many times I’ve written that blog entry in my head, the chances of it getting into my blog are very small!
Can you relate AT ALL???
Maybe not.
Which is why give those of you who actually complete a blog entry a CYBER STAR for your faithful blogging!
