Random Green Stuff, Just Because

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1. Beautiful ❤

   1. Thank you!

      1. You’re welcome ❤🌹

2. Wonderful green subjects, Susan. As far as WordPress, I wish they would stop “fixing things” because it seems to be getting worse than better. And just when I learn where to go to do what I need to do, they move it. But it does feel good to have the energy to get frustrated with something as inconsequential as a platform. It used to be our government consumed all my energy – with the virus adding another layer.

   1. Very wise. It is a step forward. I once described WordPress tools being moved like someone sneaking in your house when you’re asleep and rearranging all your furniture to where they think it would be ‘better’ for it to go.

      1. LOL

3. These are wonderful, varied green shots! I enjoyed viewing your green eye.

   1. They seem to remind us green can be as bright and bold as anything.

4. Great post–love the fox! You must have seen my jillybeans blog today because when I posted it on Facebook I complained mightily about the new editor. I hate it! I knew how to get to classic editor but for some reason that post got switched over to block editor and I couldn’t fix it. ARRRGGHHH!

   Spring Production

   1. I don’t have a Facebook account. I tried it briefly and didn’t think it was for me. At least the post still looks good.

5. Great shots, I love the fox and the Scandinavian style folk art is very pretty but the green lady intrigues me – is that a recent shot or from some time ago? If recent, where is it? I’ve recently spent several hours in Manchester photographing street art for my blog but haven’t seen that one.

   1. I tried to locate it online before I posted it in the hope I could credit the artist, but couldn’t find it. I hadn’t noticed the signature half shown in the bottom corner when I was there – too busy looking at the painting. We’d been to Art of the Brick at the Great Northern Warehouse and I remember it being on the wall on the buildings to the left of an open area when coming out of there. I don’t know if it is still there.

      1. I’ve just done quite an extensive search for it myself but found nothing – strange that of all the many Manchester street art images on Google no-one seems to have photographed that one. Maybe yours will be the first if Google picks it up from this blog 🙂 A few of mine are on there from previous blog posts and I’m always surprised when I come across them.

6. WP does love to make changes! I noticed that my WPADMIN is now missing from the menu settings and that my media library had been changed, which was very annoying because I search a lot by date. Anyway if you go to your account settings (you need to be logged in): https://wordpress.com/me/account and scroll down you will see a dashboard appearance toggle. Set this on and you will have wpadmin menu settings once more. And can then access the classic editor from the drop down add new post at the TOP of the page (not the left menu)

   And I love your eclectic greens! Great fox doorknocker and lovely green lady!

   1. Just testing if I can reply to my comment, as Margaret says not.

   2. I have changed the account setting as you suggest and my fingers are crossed.

7. These greens are a joy to look at Susan! thank you.

   1. We need a slogan like ‘eat your greens’, but ‘see your greens’ doesn’t really do the trick.

8. My favourite was that lovely folk art, till I reached Pooh 🙂 🙂 And then I got useful advice from Jude, if I can remember it. Such rich lives we lead 🙂

   1. I like the folk art, though it is not the greenest picture, I ventured it anyway. The others are all super green to make up!

      1. 🤣💕

9. I will never understand why the whole world doesn’t abide by the wisdom in “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”! Thank you for the antidote to these improvements, Susan. And to HeyJude and jillybeans. It’s good to know I’m not the only one. These tributes to green are a classic example of the reasons we don’t want to miss anything in these blogs. Though I am blown away by Pooh Bear, I mostly want to ride in that green wagon — I bet those spokes make wonderful green circles as it goes along. It’s a beauty!

   1. We’re far from the only ones. It is an excellent wagon, though whether we could depend on it any more than on our site buttons to stay in one place is another question. A case of ‘even if it is broke, don’t fix it’, perhaps?

      1. Now that’s a whole different way of looking at it, and I must think about it. When I was very young and nimble, there was a broken-down milk wagon in an empty lot nearby. It was wonderful just to climb into and sit and pretend. I could do the same thing in the green wagon and be quite content, I think, to cogitate on the whole cosmic question of fixing the broken or the unbroken.

10. The wagon is my favourite.

    1. It is very desirable. That’s perhaps why it has wheel blocks – to stop people making off with it. 🙂

11. I love the door with the fox! As for WordPress… the less said, the better. 😉

    1. By some miracle, by grumbling about it my comment problem seems mysteriously to be fixed. I will have to try that more often 🙂

    2. I enjoyed the green stuff but hate WP “improvements”.

       1. Same!

       2. If the improvements worked, that would be one thing, but too often they don’t.

12. Extraordinary! I’ve just tried replying to Jude, and all I get is a ‘Cancel reply’ when I try to post. I guess WP doesn’t welcome criticism … But your ost is a great addition to Jude’s challenge!

    1. It should work if you are logged into your account. Otherwise it will ask you to log in. Alternatively if you click on your photo icon top right of WP (next to the notification bell) then it opens your site settings. Click on account settings and on the right hand side scroll down until you find desktop appearance and slide the toggle to the right. Hopefully that works.

    2. Also Susan mentioned that the ‘post comment button’ is missing on her blog, And put up a workaround. I’m replying to this using the Reader and I get a send button.

       1. It is something connected to the gravatar. It lets me answer one comment then promply forgets who I am when I move on to the next. Clicking to a new window and then back must be prompting a refresh/reset of sorts.
          I am deliberately using a completely unmodified WordPress-designed theme on the assumption that they will know to play nice with it, but it is true it isn’t one of the most modern ones. Perhaps when I switch over, I’ll try the latest theme, but ironically when they launched it, the theme showcase had evident errors using an up-to-date Safari, hardly a rare browser. That put me off it.

          1. They really don’t test their software changes on different devices or browsers. As I qualified as a software engineer (I know, sounds posh doesn’t it?) I was taught to test, test and test again! Obviously not the case now.

             1. It seems amazing to me that they would think that was OK. I understand that you might not want or be able to wait for everything to be ‘perfect’ to launch something new. I just don’t understand why the tolerance for inbuilt problems is so broad. But what do I know?

    3. It seems to be happy to allow a comment but not a reply. Or at least not to another person. I have tried a couple of browsers and only having two windows open then clickoing from one to the other will work.

       1. Grrr. I never used to join in these WP rants. But these days ….

          1. They used to have a team of seriously lovely, caring people who interacted publicly with users, but many of them have left.

             1. Exactly. I used to find the Happiness Engineers well named. No longer.

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