The End of "My Little Blog", or The Meta Post.

I haven't given it a lot of thought, being so busy and all this time of year and just trying to hang on, as it were, to what's left of my sanity, but as of this final post, the Braincrampery Blog is fini. This will be the Metapost.

Meta, from the Greek, to mean self, about, or after, is a prefix, usually to an adjective, that creates a concept that is an abstraction from another concept, the classic example being the making of a movie within a movie. The Urban Dictionary defines meta as "a term, especially in art, used to characterize something that is characteristically self-referential."

Ergo, the Metapost: the blog post about the blog.

I started out, just feeling my way in the dark, on January 3rd, 2011, by posting three times: a picture of Sandi and me in Cape May, a post about the blog, and a picture of a waterlily on Cape Cod. I originally thought I might post just a picture a day with a story and ended up posting 32 pictures in January, of all kinds of different people and things. In February, I posted 33 photos in a second month of odds and ends.

In March I did a month of pictures (59) from our many trips to Cape Cod, and in April, in honor of Spring, 55 pix from my Flora folder. I finally got really rolling in May, leaving any picture-a-day idea behind for good as I posted 90 pictures from our visits to the great Bloomsburg Fair.

In June I did our 2006 trip to Alaska (167 pix), in July our 2010 family reunion trip to Washington State (169 pix), and in August the infamous (and fan favorite!) Potty Pix (144). In September, I posted 193 photos from our trip to Nova Scotia, in October, 174 pictures from the many fine dining establishments we've had the privilege of patronizing, and in November, 153 photos of our cats and cats we have known.

Finally, just this month, I posted a record 217 photos to wrap up the year--all or almost all of those I couldn't fit in somehow elsewhere and just wanted to share.

After the initial day of three posts I neither missed a day nor posted more than once a day. Oddly enough, with no effort whatsoever on my part to do so, I posted, counting the single picture from today, exactly 1,500 images. There were perhaps ten or fifteen that I didn't take--maps and the like that illustrated a story-- and the thirty from the Glass and Hardin archives just a week or so ago--so around 99% of the photos were of my own creation. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting all the photos and the circumstances around their capture.

I saved a final picture, from a September vacation to the Cape. On the first day away from home we sometimes stay overnight in New London, Connecticut and visit Harkness State Park in nearby Waterford, right on Long Island Sound. The sun is out, the air is warm, the breeze from the Sound is up, the flowers are in bloom, and we are giddy with gratitude at not being at either Bloomingdale's or Doylestown Hospital. As ever, God is in His heaven and all's right with the world.

Bye-bye.