Seven Sisters, Massachusetts - part 2

Since I have quite a few posts and photographs about different hiking spots, I thought this blog/website might be a good resource for others. Two days ago, I painstakingly went through 515 blog posts since 5/28/07 and added labels to many of them. Now, down the right hand column of the site, entries can be viewed by category (museum, aquarium, hiking, wildlife photos...). One thing I realized was that I spent a lot more time preparing for and writing about presenting than actually presenting. This is something I really need to work on. I couldn't help but categorize two short posts under the title "asylum."

Here are three more photographs of the Seven Sisters. I find it entertaining to encounter trail markers that lead a hiker through a vernal pool. Nice try, but not goin' that way! In the second photograph, note the rope hanging from the cliff. Two guys went down that way. The bottom photograph is where they climbed to. The horse caves are under the overhang.

Blogger has a nifty new feature where it can display a collection of blog photographs all at once.
Here's a look at the snapshot option which I really like:

http://lindazajac.blogspot.com/view/snapshot#!/

On the upper right portion of the screen there is a drop-down button where you can choose other display options like mosaic, flipcard, sidebar, and timeslide. Check it out!

To enable my blog to be displayed in these formats, I had to change a few settings:

The blog feed had to be fully enabled. In the Settings | Site feed tab, enable either Full or Jump Break for the Post Feed.

I had to enable dynamic views. In the Setting | Formatting tab, the option for Enable Dynamic Views is set to Yes.

This feature only works for public blogs where the reader doesn't need to sign in.

Aside from those unexpected finagling with settings this morning, I've been working on a chemistry article. It's coming along well, but needs to be at least five times bigger than it is.

I'm still waiting on a number of things--a clip, an opportunity, and approval. It would be nice if all three came through.

A fox trotted through our front yard this morning. The only thing I saw were the tracks.

It's ironic that my efforts to save the eggs contributed to their demise by luring a predator to the nest. Now doesn't that figure?

I signed up for sitemeter to keep track of blog activity. But when the reports listed zero visitors even though I'd been on my own blog, I knew something was wrong. Yesterday, I figured it out. Now if you scroll all the way to the end of the posts you'll find a little sitemeter icon that I was sorely missing. It made all the difference in the world. The reports don't identify the person, but it does identify how they got to the site, where they live, and how long they were visiting. Good stuff to know.

So far, today's visitors are from CT (that would be me), TX, AZ, LA, CA, Quebec, and the U.K.