Seventeen Years of Blogging

On this day in 2005, I started this blog. My first entry began like this:

I don't recall exactly why I started blogging, except that I was already maintaining a couple of websites and doing them in HTML and Dreamweaver took a lot of time. Blogspot sounded easier and indeed it is.

In June of 2005, we were living in Montross. High-speed internet had not reached our neighborhood and I was using dial-up over old telephone lines. I could literally click on a link, go to the kitchen for coffee, and return before the page finished loading. So I did not blog every day, but instead prepared some photos and waited to post them until I could take my laptop to the library in town, which did have fast internet. 

That was not the only reason I was anxious to move back to Bryce Resort. We had long drives to go shopping, even longer than the half-hour drive from Bryce to Walmart. So after three months, we moved back and rented out the Montross house.

Thus I was back in Shenandoah County. I decided that the mountain and valley region of Virginia would be a main focus of my blog. After all, it is photogenic and rich in history.

Shenandoah Valley, the rivers, and the surrounding mountains remain the most popular topics of my posts. Right now I have 1858 posts tagged Shenandoah and I could tag many more that way.

This region is incredibly beautiful. I hope I have been able to convey that photographically.

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