Over the past year, I’ve been updating this website by paring down and consolidating but also elaborating on blog topics, mostly in the context of what was available or happening around the time of their publication. Sometimes I added a quick update, but sometimes I overhauled it. And so I have a lot more visitors than before (still modest, though), because it’s good to enjoy the simple stuff.

Now that I’ve combed through my content history and brought it up to a certain standard, I’m ready to redirect my attention to what else this little Big City, Little Homestead website could do. (I am having trouble coming up with a new name, or even a reason to change it. I do not want to become a content mill; posting to the socials is just not something I’m naturally inclined to do, nor am I particularly good at it.) I expect to continue making 4 to 6 blog posts a year, projects to build and observations I make about nature or whatever. But that’s just holding a pattern, and I’m looking to shake something up. I have an upcoming new-roof project, and last October, I changed up the basic configuration of my front yard so I have some new ideas to update the landscaping. I’ll blog about both of these when they’re underway. But I want to do something else, something more.

A photo archive-and-use project

So for now, I’ll introduce a new project that’s an extension of an effort I began during the pandemic. That’s when I began organizing, harmonizing, and sometimes publicizing my photos and other resources  – and I did so exhaustively. It continued on a monthly basis, for years, because I was going through 20+ years of digital and scanned photographs.