In The Light Of Spring

When Thoughtful Words Mattered

"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, 

such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and 

clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I read a short article in my email today, from 

http://www.ehn.org/, about the woman who’s name

 adorns many places in Florida, (Including a high school 

that is now the starting point for sane laws regarding firearms).

Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who survived

 a preventable massacre are currently being vilified in the 

predominantly right wing biased mass media. 

They will not be pushed aside of talked down to. I support them 

and all those who will vote for the restoration and future of 

our democracy.

Treehouse squirrel snacking

This quote was in my email feed from Finimize and I liked it. 

I removed the cookies so you could freely enjoy Eleanor Roosevelt’s thoughtful observation. 

(click the link if you want to visit a modern financial news site)

Spring Is Still Busting Out All Over

The cactus that never quits

Some of the applications and programs that I have been using 

for years are changing in unfortunate ways. Some are changing 

to subscription services, some have been bought by other 

companies and some are making poorly considered changes 

just for the sake of changing.

Stunning iris in Dottie’s garden

Even this blogger site is “modernizing” its way toward 

uselessness and will soon be unusable for writers and bloggers 

who prefer to create from their own minds, rather than be 

trapped in a collection of cut and paste stickers, templates 

and other border walls.

I originally designed my Phil’s Place page layout to provide 

just the right balance of white space, shapes and blocks of 

text that would visually convey the spirit of my musings. 

That worked for a few years. Only small adjustments have 

been required. Like redesigning the masthead and changing 

the size of images and trying to keep text from being converted 

to something ugly, (like Arial).

Happy hummingbird baby

I think where Apple, and now Google are going in 

the wrong direction is by trying to combine smartphone 

apps with real computer programs. At least that is my 

experience with photography, music recording, video 

production and graphic design.

The latest updated, redesigned, unusable or abandoned 

Apple programs like GarageBand, iMovie, iWebs and iPhoto 

are perfect examples of planned obsolescence and bad judgement. 

The iPhone versions are cute and that is nice on iPhones. 

I am using older versions of the Mac applications because 

the new versions lack the controls needed for original works.

Magic iris tests million colors retina displays

That’s my excuse for not writing this blog for awhile. 

The last time I published it, everything was reshaped and 

rearranged to where things got all squished together and text 

ran off the page. It was horrifying to see this carefully crafted 

blog discombobulated and trashed by poorly written code.*

I suspect that something weird will happen here, too.

*It did happen and I have had to chop up the text to fit this mobile 

App format. I think it looks like shit. I apologize.

Today’s Video;

Peace