About your blog (Day 1) - 20 Days of Chill

Well, here we are again.  It's January and time for P.J.'s annual 20 Day of Chill blogging challenge.  Today's theme is "About your blog."  

The title of the blog is a Photo a Day, but I think the real deal with this blog is "Best Intentions not Realized."  Last year is a perfect example of what I mean.  I posted 23 times with this blog, but 20 of those posts were done in January (Can you Say 20 Days of Chill?  Very good.  I knew you could.).  My last post of 2016 was in June.  You'd think that I could have posted more since I was in the middle of summer vacation.  But as I've stated above, this blog is all about best intentions but there's no follow through.  And yes, I could say, it's going to change this year.  Maybe, maybe not.

So here we go again.  My photo for the day is one I took on the 1st at a memorial while I was out geocaching.  I have been at this particular memorial more than once, mainly because there have been more than one geocache to find here over the past 15 years.  I think the photo serves as a reminder that we need to remember that the freedoms we enjoy have always come at a price.

Now, back to the blog at hand.  I always cross post this to my Facebook page.  I tend to get more comments there than I ever get here, although I think I'd like to have people comment on the actual blog.  I think that would give me a sense of who are actually reading it.  I pretty much know who's reading it on Facebook.  I think that might be part of my problem.  I like to read other's comments and will usually respond back.  Sometimes those comments prompt me to write about other things down the road.  When people comment on Facebook, I'll end up commenting there, but that's about where it ends.

So who knows where this goes?  I'm not sure, but I now I'll probably do this for the 20 days in January and then we'll see where it goes from there.  Thanks for reading and as always comments are always welcome.  I won't bite.

The End

And here we arrive at the end.  Through the encouragement of several different people, I was able to carry through on my end and meet the different prompts each and every day.  But this is the end.

I'm not saying I won't write again, but I know my history.  I've been very good in the past, when challenged to keep on a writing schedule and keep this blog fresh.  But the stats speak for themselves.

2012 - 28 total posts, 6 in January, none after August
2013 - 75 total posts, 12 in January, 10 in February
2014 - 25 total posts, evenly distributed throughout the year
2015 - 34 total posts, 23 in January, none after July
2016 - This is the 20th post

Are you seeing a trend here?  I am and I keep telling people and keep saying to myself that it's going to change, but it probably won't.  I get busy with other things in my life and this falls by the wayside.

But look at the sign above.  We are so used to driving on pavement and our roads take us everywhere.  What do we do when the pavement ends?  Well, for me, I'll keep going.  I have to think that way.  If I become pessimistic about this blog, I know it will never happen.  I posted that sign, because it represents an entire new world out there.  And as Calvin said to Hobbes in their very last Sunday strip,  "Let's go exploring."