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Xenzuu Commentary
Hello all, For a little while now, I have been on a #Facebook alternative site called #Xenzuu. I actually like it better than Facebook. I do there what I would typically do on any other social network, share status updates, share my #art and #photo
Working on taking more photos
Over the break I took the time to get out and take #photos while up in Spokane at Manito Park and then at the Arboretum here in Moscow. I need to really get back into getting my photos out there. Been reading up on tips on how to get more exposure. Been s
Just Sharing Some Random Thoughts…
I had another post planned, but I'm nixing it for my own reasons. I guess I’m just gonna ramble for now, and I’ll TRY to find some writing prompts/challenges for this week.I didn’t do much of anything on Saturday, at least not that I
Pic of The Day: Hugging John Cena
I think most of you know by now that I am a huge WWE fan, and I have mentioned favorites such as Shawn Michaels and Randy Orton. One of my other favorites is John Cena. Today is John Cena's 38th birthday, so my picture of the day is from the third time I m
Pic of The Day: NYC in Jan. of 2015.
I think once in a while I am going to do this "Pic of The Day" thing. It's pretty simple; I post a photo and discuss the memory attached to it. I snapped this selfie of myself back in January of 2015, when I took a day trip to New York City with my friend
Photo Issues On Persona Pages
I’m still struggling quite a bit with adding my new photos on articles submitted to Persona Pages. If I create an article and add a photo to it, then post it right away it is fine. Problems start when I add later articles or put articles wit
Thoughts on a Pier
There’s nothing like walking on a pier to make you realize there are two sides to everything. On most piers you can only look closely at one side at a time. This is Harford Pier in Port San Luis in Avila Beach, California. I suggest you open it in a
Which One Would You Choose?
I caught caught in the rain on my way from the Templeton house to the Paso house around five. I must have been driving under this dark cloud. After taking the photo above and a few others around the Templeton house, I wanted to get over to Castoro Cellars
Loading Photos
Since the recent changes in how photos are added to our Persona Papers pages I have found it impossible to add any of my own images to my features which is very frustrating. It just leaves the image out as if never submitted when I try. Today I tr
Birds Everywhere
Today it was cloudy and I was sure it would #rain. In fact, it had sprinkled a bit in the morning when I had gone to get something out of my car. But I know I need exercise, and in spite of my reluctance to go outside with such an ominous #sky, I went. I k
Mystery Photo Puzzle Solved: Bird on a Bridge to a Bridge
The cable the bird is perched upon is helping to support this pipe bridge over the Salinas River in Paso Robles. I liked the view of the bridge from this place, but I chose the wrong time of day to get the shot I really wanted. I kept getting sun spots in
Where is the Bird? A Photo Mystery Puzzle
Where is the bird? The bird is obviously perched on something in the air. So what's the mystery puzzle? The mystery has two parts. First, what exactly is the bird perched on and what is it attached to? Second, over what are the bird and its perch hanging?
Can You Find the Squirrel?
One thing you can say about #squirrels is that they move quickly. As I was walking down Oak Lane, the #rural road where the small farms near me are located, I first ran across the pig I saw last time I was there. I took a lot of #photos of her and wrote to
Scary Early Photo Challenge
I don't have access to my scanner tonight, so I'll have to draw from photos I have already scanned. The one you see here will prove that I loved books even before I could read. The man reading the book to me is my father's Uncle Ike. Uncle Ike missed a gre
Guess My Photo #1 Reveal
A couple of weeks ago I did my first Guess My Photo post and used the attached photo as my first challenge. Here's the original post: http://www.personapaper.com/article/20337-guess-my-photo I had a few good guesses, but only one person got kind of c
Be Careful Whom You Befriend
Tuesday I spent a lot of time on photo walks. One of the last places I walked was on a country road in Templeton. It had rained the night before and the world was fresh and green and the sky was amazing everywhere I looked. I parked in a church parking lot
Guess My Photo 2
Here is my second "Guess My Photo" post. I have not yet given the answer to my first Guess My Photo due to the lack of participation on it, so after you're done guessing this one please head on over to the first one: http://www.personapaper.com
What to Do With Old Family Photos
It's sad that each time an elderly person dies, their photos are left behind, often without anybody knowing who is in them. But these are a treasure you need to retain and share. Each time somebody dies, there are usually 2-3 children or family
Can People Handle Unhappy Stories?
Today I feel invisible on tsu. It's true I've been mostly here and blogging today, but what I chose to post on tsu today seemed to silence people instead of getting them talking. I got a couple of comments on the short and sweet posts with mostly links or
Are You a Sky Watcher?
Ever since I moved to San Luis Obispio County I've been a #sky watcher. It's not that I never noticed the sky before, but I usually wasn't out during #sunsets until I moved here. I have #photos of the Wyoming Big Sky taken when I was on vacation and a few
How Do I Price Them?
I debated whether or not to post this into Business or Pictures - business obviously won out :) I recently got prints and frames for some of my best photos (one of them is attached here on this post), obviously the prints do not have the large water
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jog
Today I drove my car for the first time since my surgery. I didn't want to, but we sold our Ventura building and the escrow people want a piece of paper we haven't needed since we bought the building in 1989. I suspsected that if we have it, it would be in
The Original Barrel Photo from Which the Puzzle Came
You saw the piece of this barrel, repeated in the photo at the top right, in Guess This Photo Puzzle 2. Most of you guessed this was a barrel. The other photo here is the photo it came from, taken on December 18. I was sure I had made a post about it somew
Can You Guess This Photo?
I have decide to join Angel's #guessthisphoto game. Those who have kept up with my posts here and at the other site have an advantage in guessing this one, and I'm hoping it won't be too terribly easy. I don't think it's as hard as Angel's last photo post
A Message to Persona Paper Newbies
It looks like Persona Paper is off to a good start for 2015. I noticed we have an influx of new members over the past few days. I'm not sure it's a Bubblews migration, but certainly some of our new members are from that other site. What's wonderful, though
Just Walkin' in the Rain
Getting soaking wet. But I really didn't know it would #rain when I left. I knew it was about time for the gardener to show up and I wanted to avoid the noise he would make. I knew it was cold out, though, and put a snow hat on under my sun hat. There was
Adventures in Detective Work
All of us are aware of the fact that some cheaters are posting #stolen #photos on #tsu. I'm sure that no honest people want to support that by sharing those stolen posts, but sometimes it's hard to be sure if work really belongs to someone. Yester
My First Photo Walk After Surgery
This is the milestone I've been waiting for. I've had cabin fever, but it was too rainy and cold to go for a real #walk before today. Since I was supposed to start small, I decided to make the two-block trek to the neighborhood mailbox and back. I was craz
The Vine Street Victorian Christmas Showcase in Paso Robles
Because I'm confined to the house after my recent surgery, I'm not doing what I would normally be doing tonight – walking through the #Victorian #Christmas Showcase on Vine Street in Downtown Paso Robles. Actually, what I would really be doing at thi
Rock City Christmas 2014: Set Three
This is the next set of photos from our Rock City trip this past weekend. The first photo is of a tree they had in a Frozen display. They have a few things from the movie, such as the guy I mentioned with the big tree in my second post. They also had a wom
How Many Birds Do You see in the Tree?
As I was looking through my bird #photos, I found this one I took down by the riverbed one January. As I watched, a block of small #birds descended on a tree. I tried to capture them. The top photo shows just one little piece of the whole photo blown up so
Editing My Photo Of Peachy Canyon Gazebo
Back in 2010 I started playing with a photo I had taken of the gazebo at the Peachy Canyon tasting room in Templeton, California. It is a scenic place, one of my favorites to photograph. I was experimenting with Photoshop Elements 8, trying out various e
This Has Been a Crazy Week
It all started on Monday. It seems my husband's #plumbing and the toilet plumbing in the hall bathroom don't work well together. This resuts in gallons of hot water being carried into the bathroom to try to dissolve what won't go down and several attempts
Changes in Using Photos from Photo Gallery
I noticed as I was preparing my latest post that our photos wider than 550 pixels are being cropped to that width. Since an important part of my photo was sliced off, I had to go back and delete my the photo from the gallery. Then I went back to my editor,
It's throwback Thursday again
It's Thursday once again and our social media profiles will be full once again with throwback Thursday photos. It is really fun sifting through my friends profiles on Facebook to find old pictures of themselves. It is fun to see how my recent friends look
Digitizing
Okay, I have decided to start this winter to get my old photos and my mothers old photos and digitize them. My mother also has old slides from when we were kids. That I don’t have a device to transfer them to a computer with. So I will have to send t
Fungus Among Us
We saw this stump on the side of the road while driving through Cade's Cove this past weekend. We had already spied a few but didn't see them in time to pull off. We saw this one in time though, thank goodness, because I just love fungus and mushrooms. Who
I Have a Plan to Encourage Activity Here on PersonaPaper
Whenever I greet a new sign-up, on one of those introductory type of posts, I request something of them. Not only do we all now have a chance to earn by commenting on something else, we also get the benefit of knowing they're human, right? Most of the peop
It Starts With The Photo
It starts with the photo. Or photos. Curious as to why I had this on 'writing' instead of 'pictures', so am I. LOL! My point is, pictures can serve as good writing prompts. Prior to me writing this post, I went through the recent and not so recent photos
A Beautiful End to a Beautiful Day
The weather was perfect for #travel today. The sky was clear and bright. We made good time except for the gas line at Costco in San Luis Obispo. It was hard to pass all those gorgeous beaches like Avila and Pismo, but we didn't have time to stop at any of
How to Watermark Your Photos on PicMonkey
While I have a Photoshop program that I am learning to use, I sometimes want to do something quick and easy with my photos. My go to tool for this is the online photo editor known as PicMonkey. They offer a variety of tools that are easy to use and give st
The Race Is Over
I think I tied the clock, but it wasn't easy. I had planned to go nowhere and do nothing until the work was finished. Then the phone rang. The Realtor had one more counter offer paper we needed to sign and fax to her today, and the only printer is at the o
How Do I Know Which Photos Are Safe to Use?
One of the questions I get asked most commonly as an experienced freelance #writer is “Which #photos can I use in my articles?” There’s much more to it than just doing a search. In fact, doing a search without knowing what to check for co
How To Use Images in Persona Paper?
&ashley and other moderators, Please teach me how to use images in personapaper’s posts properly. What I have learned from Bubblews you are only allowed to use images with Commercial Use license such as from Freedigitalphotos, Pixab
Freelance Writing: Tools and Requirements for Writers
Writers are like craftsmen who work with tools, here are some tools and requirements for writers in random order. Writing pad or digital notes devices for new ideas Spelling and Grammar checker – either a software program or online checker.&nb
