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La Conner

The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is the perfect place

for a tulipolic to find artistic inspiration…

Bloggaversary

Machu Picchu

 

Today, May 19th, marks the One Year Anniversary of thechangingpalette. 

Happy Birthday to me!

I started blogging one year ago as a complete novice with machupicchucountdownin preparation for our trek to Machu Picchu, the adventure of a lifetime .  With this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art, my recent painting of this archeological wonder seems to be the perfect way to celebrate the occasion.

Thank you to WordPress who make it all possible, to the great people at The Daily Post who have made me a better blogger (I hope), and to all of you who have been gracious enough to follow me on my journey. Over the year I have met so many of you in the blogosphere and have enjoyed your company as we have travelled together to distant lands and shared new adventures.

I look forward to Year Two of the thechangingpalette and very much hope that you will continue to join me on my journey.  With best wishes…Andrew

Easter Monday Bouquet: April 21

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I thought I would post this Monday bouquet early for dear friends and followers across the other side of the world for whom Easter Monday is almost over.

Today’s Blogging 201 assignment is to integrate features to draw traffic to older content on our blogs. I have added a top posts and pages widget in my sidebar and a related posts feature at the end of the page with images.  Hope you like these additions. Let me know what you think.

 Happy Easter weekend  🙂    

Confessions of a Tulipolic


All right! I confess. I am a tulipolic.

Now I think this needs a little explanation. For the next two weeks I have joined the “Blogging University” at The Daily Post in a course entitled Blogging 201: Branding and Growth. Today we have been asked to audit our blogs, and one of the assignments is to add or update our taglines to give more context to our various titles. Now, since I don’t have a tagline and haven’t had one since I started blogging almost a year ago, this seemed to be the perfect time to finally put pen to paper and write one.

Nothing concentrates the mind more than to explain in one short sentence the “meaning of the life”, which leads me to today’s task.

For those of you who have been following my blog, and let me say I love you all, my use of the word Tulipolic will be very clear. If you are visiting for the first time I think the gallery of photos is all that is necessary together with a visit to my Monday Bouquet. The arts in the tagline of course refers to photography, painting, writing and anything else that inspires the creative spirit residing in all of us and which is forever changing.

So there you have it, a tagline together with an accompanying new header image and the completion of today’s assignment.  Do I hear a drum role?…

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