Leafy Northern Lights
Terri Webster Schrandt

Wordless Wednesday: Looking Back on Autumns Past

For Wordless Wednesday, let your images tell the story.

autumn colors at Freestone Inn
Freestone Inn, Mazama, Washington
Leafy Northern Lights
Leafy Aurora, Winthrop, Washington
October Aurora
October Aurora, North Cascades, Washington

“I’m so glad to live in a world where there are Octobers.” Anne of Green Gables

pumpkin display

Sharing for Lens-Artists: Looking Back into Autumns Past, Dawn’s Festival of Leaves, and Wednesday Quotes: Autumn.

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  3. These are stunning pictures Terri, especially the one paired with the Aurora! I like how the gourds are in these cubbyholes – it makes for a fun picture. (I was having issues with WP last night and finally gave up on it and left – the site either froze in place or kept saying “duplicate – you’ve already said that!”)

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      • October is my favorite month of the year – the beauty, the cooler air – you can’t beat it. I logged on here around 7:00ish and the “Comments” area was blank and my blog homepage was just the flowered background and nothing else. I logged out and in again and it’s fine now. Maybe that is the solution going forward.

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      • I think it is too much AI Terri to be honest. Now when I’m writing a comment, AI is trying to help me out grammatically! It is bad enough with MS Office Word sometimes butting in! 🙂 I hope I don’t need to change my blog theme anytime soon. I know it is inevitable, but I’ll be like Scarlet O’Hara and think about it another day. Hopefully, not until I’m forced into it when I run out of media space and have to upgrade to the Business Plan like a few fellow bloggers have had to do. Despite my picture-laden posts, I have only used 1.5 GB out of 13 GB upload limit (12%).

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      • Oh, I have to look into that because that is something new and I’m assuming it is a new WP feature and not the overall Windows 11 updates I did the other day as I leave them to ensure there are no issues like happened to me back in April or May with a bad Windows update. I didn’t know it was that easy to change themes. I used the simplest theme when I created my blog in 2011. I size my photos to about 675 X 675 and my header image at 700 X 700. I do a screenshot of my photos to ensure I keep them at that size if at all possible. I was happy about that too – I do have to see if there is a way to tell how much storage space the rest of the blog takes up since I write such long posts.

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      • Its only the media files that take up space, not words. You must comment on a laptop or computer? I have all that windows software but it doesn’t translate onto the Jetpack app if used on your phone. I had AI while working on my PC in WP, but I disabled it. I use grammarly too, which actually helps!

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      • Okay, that’s good to know Terri. I couldn’t see how they would have a separate amount of “space” for text too. I only comment on a laptop as I don’t use a smartphone for WP. I think I will disable it too, especially in Word where I draft my posts as AI has a bugaboo about doing two spaces following a period. I know that is the trend now – one space following a period, but for decades I’ve done it the other way, so … but, when I transfer my text to a new WP post, it changes it to one space, so I just let it go. No words sometimes. AI also wants to put a comma before a quotation too and before the word “and” something I’ve not ever done. I think I tried out Grammarly once – we disagreed on some things. 🙂

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    • Thank you, Janis! I walked on the local trail today, but only yellows were present. Another week for the red maples. I remember visiting San Diego near Christmas time and seeing liquid ambers in their autumn glory. Too bad the eucalyptus don’t change colors 😉

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  30. So pretty. We’re still mostly green around here, though some maples are turning. I went up north last week and it’s a couple of hours driving north before you start to see significant color. I remember that October aurora. It was spectacular.

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      • I don’t know where you live, but there are predicted more aurora this week, if you’re above the 45th parrelel for sure. I know I spelled that wrong, but I’m in a hurry. I was in northern Michigan these past 7 days and I saw them 2x. Not as brilliant as that year with the crazy lights, but still there. I think they were out almost every night to a lesser degree, but I only went out 2 nights. I hope you see them!

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