My Favorite Pond

I've been here many times before. As a matter of fact, this pond is in one of the very first nature parks I ever traveled as The Everyday Adventurer. I fell in love with this place because of its solitude. And to this very day I can come to this pond and be all alone, the only person in the whole park.

When I came to the park this time I went in behind a woman and her children. I waited for them to get far ahead of me so they wouldn't be afraid. It's not fun having a stranger walking closely behind you. About a third of the way through the park I greeted them as we passed each other on the trail. They were already leaving. I don't blame them because it's a long walk. But I was finally all alone.

Now that I had this park all to myself I could walk around at my leisure, examining everything around me. I could go on and off the trail. The presence of other people doesn't really matter that much, but I sometimes like my alone time, and I don't like to reveal my secret places.

Okay, I'm going to change the subject for a few short seconds. I've been giving Blogger tips here in the middle of my posts, and I'm going to give you another. This is an easy one.

Do you see the picture of my Ratty mouse face in the title bar at the top of your browser? It's called a "favicon". Usually there is an orange and white Blogger "B" there. Would you like to know how I changed that? Blogger has finally decided to make that a very simple thing for all of us.

To change that B to a picture of your own go to the Layout section in your Blogger dashboard. There you will see right at the top of your Page Elements section an extra block called Favicon. Click the Edit link and it will bring you to a window from where you can upload a good picture from your own computer that you can use as your very own favicon.

A little update: It sometimes takes about a day before your favicon appears in the top of your browser. I had forgotten about this last important part.

Here's a link to Blogger's post with more details about it: Latest Updates, August 1st
And here's another post about it from Icy BC: How To Install a Favicon On Your Blog

Let's get back to nature.

You know, I went to this park thinking that I would only see animals clear at the back where the pond sits always waiting for me. It turned out that the pond was one of the few places where I saw no animals.

Actually that's not totally true. I saw a small family of ducks that quickly hid in the weeds as soon as I emerged from the forest. I also found some butterflies flitting around. Butterflies are usually much too fast to catch on camera, so I only try when they are obviously very slow.

I still stayed back there at that pond for quite awhile looking out at the landscape. I enjoyed my alone time, and I enjoyed being at the pod, one of my favorite places.


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