Fragments Lives!
Squint your eyes a little, let go disbelief, and this dew-covered foxtail spike becomes a city-scape at night (and with a little Photoshopping of the foreground) complete with waterfront reflections.
Goofy picture for a giddy state of mind. All the woes and wonderings about where the blog would go next in its continuing vagabondage have been answered, due to the kindness of friends. I slept well last night, knowing that, in a few weeks, blogging will be about sharing words and pixels, not fretting over the mechanics of stuff under the hood.
I can't say for certain, but it is looking like I might transition to Word Press for the blogging tool. This will necessitate moving to another server, because my present server doesn't do WP for technical reasons. I'm hoping to have comments remain intact for the present FFF which will remain accessible as archives and linked to the new blogsite. But that file is getting huge, what with more than 3000 entries and 10K comments, plus all the images over the years. I'll start off lean and clean (and probably pretty bare-bones) and grow again--Fragments 2. Will I rename the new blog? Not if I can help it. It will hopefully redirect page visits from the old url to the new one, seamlessly. Stay tuned.
So thanks to longsuffering Doug Thompson for his care-giving in the continuously-declining health of FFF over the past year and a half. His help and encouragement has been invaluable. I'll be moving just up the road, and you, the reader, should not notice too awful much of a ripple in the pond.
I had some other snippets, but was displaced to the laptop once again (she has 18 new reunion-related emails this morning at 4:30) so this may be the only post for the day. But Fragments lives on, and to those of you who wrote yesterday to offer suggestions or encouragement, your words were so helpful in this rocky transition. I do appreciate knowing you're out there, and are still stopping by for a few minutes on the FFF front porch.
So...my choices at the moment seem to be between Blogger hosted at my own server space, or Word Press. Any experience among readers with WP? Any warnings, praise, or further ideas for FFF's future?