August 27, 2023

Apple Blossom Festival

Well, this is a bit awkward…. Completed missed this opportunity to yapp about a wonderful experience. H’mmm, “old-timers” disease perhaps? Well, we’ll leave that discussion for another day. As part of my retirement celebration, the kids and I decided to visit the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, VA. It’s kind of an odd thing, as this is held at the same time as the Wine Festival in Winchester. The difference is the Apple Blossom Festival is free to enter while the Wine Festival is a paid entry. It made for an interesting situation getting around in Winchester, and it definitely wasn’t an ideal situation. Hopefully the Winchester folks can see…

August 25, 2023

Whew

So, I called 1and1 again this morning. The issue was there were two versions of the database for the site and the tech on Tuesday had restored the older, obsolete one. So, Rod (which I’m certain is his real name… ) dug in, and restored the newer database! Woo hoo! Saved from my own stupidity. I lost two updates, and those were easy peasy to redo. Geeze. Anyway, next time, we’ll probably queue up the “wayback” machine and look at some pictures from when we were in New Orleans. stay tuned, and thanks for your patience.

August 25, 2023

Sigh…

Good intentions. I was playing around with the site on Tuesday after posting the previous message. Several themes had been downloaded, and played around with. To the point that I realized I was doing more damage than not. So, I got this wild hair that I would reset the theme settings. Doing some innerweb spelunking, the WordPress add-in WP Reset is recommended for this tasking. Obviously, I didn’t thoroughly read the documentation as WP Reset not only resets themes settings, it resets EVERYTHING, including deleting all the media on the website. Luckily, I had done a site backup, but that was basically just the text, and all the links, no…

August 18, 2023

All things WordPress

So, some time back, I stumbled across the template that I’m using for this site is Photo-Diary by Mark Sitco. If you’ve been following along, firstly my apologies, but secondly you will have noticed that I’ve tried some other themes, but eventually gave up and came back to Photo Diary. The downside to all this is Photo-Diary has been abandoned and it’s been over 2 years since it was updated. And it’s beginning to show. For good or for bad, WordPress is evolving and Photo Diary is becoming less and less compatible. Sigh. Amongst the other things going on in my life right now, I REALLY didn’t want to add…

August 16, 2023

Fairfax Cemetery

A couple of weeks ago, I grabbed the Fuji X100f and headed out for a walk to the Fairfax Cemetery. I’ve walked through the cemetery a couple of times before, but this trip was solely for photographic purposes. It prolly wasn’t the ideal day for photography as it was very bright and sunny that day. I’m fond of dark, contrasty imagery, and that can be a challenge in the bright sunlight. Oh well. The cemetery is about a mile away on the other side of the Fairfax Courthouse. An interesting factoid about the Fairfax Courthouse is this is where the infamous Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial was conducted. Don’t ask me…

August 6, 2023

Udvar-Hazy

One of the amazing benefits of living in the WMA (Washington Metropolitan Area) is the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. We’ve been to the center a couple of times, but it has been a number of years since our last visit. Jourdan and Stefani were in town for the 4th of July holiday, and seeing as it will be the last time that we will see them up here in the WMA, Jourdan and I decided to visit the center. It was a busy 3rd of July at the center as most folks had the day off in advance of Independence Day. There wasn’t…