The fun projects, Monday Window and Thursday Doors, have been moved to Two Cameras – Two Views. This blog, on a self-hosted site, does not do well on WordPress Reader. Just three friends have succeeded in following this blog. They will not be forgotten. There will always be some ramblings here with links and information…… Continue reading Closing Doors and Windows
Author: LudwigKeck
Thursday Doors – 3
Elegant Home Today we visit an elegant home. The front door is carefully crafted with beveled glass and sculpted designs. As a special treat we get to see what the door looks like from the inside. Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos…… Continue reading Thursday Doors – 3
Monday Window – 2
Monday Window – Looking Up Sometimes when you look up at windows they seem to take on a different character. They seem to be looking out, far above, unconcerned with the goings-on below them. Then again, sometimes you can see in and just barely imagine what is happening there. .:. © 2016 Ludwig Keck
Thursday Doors – 2
A Simple Door For this Thursday Doors post my contribution is a simple door. Just about as simple as one can get. A simple glass double door. No adornments, just stark, rectangular panels. Even the door “handles” are simple rectangular metal bars. But surrounding the door are impressive, large windows reaching up to form a…… Continue reading Thursday Doors – 2
My Liebster Award
My blog Café Ludwig has been nominated for the Liebster Award by Irmgard Rahn, BOOKS OF REALITY. Irmgard was a fellow participant in Blogging 101. Since this blog was my “vehicle” for that course, I consider it appropriate that I involve it in the award process by fulfilling two of the requirements of the award…… Continue reading My Liebster Award
Monday Window – 1
Window on River Street So this is number one in my new series “Monday Window”. I took the advise of a respected sage “never start at the beginning”. This then is a window along River Street in Savannah, Georgia. The two photos here at first glance seem to show different windows. Yet it is one…… Continue reading Monday Window – 1
Monday Window – 0
Introducing “Monday Window” The final task in Blogging 101 is to create a regular feature. Just a couple of days ago I joined “Thursday Doors” by Norm 2.0. That is such a fun idea, posting a photo of a door once a week, that I decided to do something similar for a regular feature. My new…… Continue reading Monday Window – 0
My Brand
My Brand: My Name – My Logo Come we now to Blogging 101 Day Fourteen. The task: Extend your brand with one of the following: a custom site icon, a custom image widget, or a fan page. Well, I have done all these things many times over. So let me tell you a bit of my history,…… Continue reading My Brand
Doors Open
Thursday Doors: Coming In Over in Blogging 101 the Day Thirteen task encourages to “Try a Blogging Event”. I looked through the list and and noticed that “Thursday Doors” by Norman Frampton was on the list. I had come across his Norm 2.o site and found the idea of a weekly blog featuring doors intriguing.…… Continue reading Doors Open
Do I need a “prompt”? Do I need a prod?
Looking back at Day Eleven of Blogging 101 I find the topic “Make a Prompt Personal” – Publish a post based on your own, personalized take on a blogging prompt. Do I need to be prodded? Can’t I find inspiration and topics to blog about? Do I need such stimulation? Well the past three days were…… Continue reading Do I need a “prompt”? Do I need a prod?
If at first you don’t succeed …
… take up something else! … Besides there was the note “come by at two o’clock”. We had been waiting for the opening of Hog & Ale Smokehouse for over four months. Turning to good food has always been a great “plan B” strategy. Mmmm, their “piglets” are awesome! Now what were we talking about.…… Continue reading If at first you don’t succeed …
Searchers, Followers, and Friends
For Day Ten the Blogging 101 assignment is “Build a Better Blogroll”. This is the third day with emphasis on the social aspects of blogging. Building your community is certainly essential to blogging. For me it brings up some interesting problems. There are two sides to WordPress. There is WordPress.COM with free blogs for individual…… Continue reading Searchers, Followers, and Friends
Good Neighbor
Being a good neighbor and getting inspired by neighbors Participation in Blogging 101 has not only been fun and informative, it has allowed me to visit blogs that were quite new to me. I tried to visit as many of the blogs of my fellow participants as I could find time for. Some of the…… Continue reading Good Neighbor
Background
A little bit of Background Showing the background of a blog is a little bit like showing underwear, you want as little as possible seen. When it does show you want it to be pleasing and a nice complement to your personality. Well, for a blog maybe showing just a smidgen more is desirable. I have worked…… Continue reading Background
Headers
A bunch of headers Here is a collection of my headers. You can see that my preference is for wide but narrow “mastheads” like old-fashioned newspapers. I want visitors to see more than just the static id imagery. That seems to be against the current trend, but I want visitors to see content. Two of…… Continue reading Headers
All about About
A dozen About pages and counting My friends and followers know that I have a “cloud” of blogs and sites and thus a ton of About pages. For some months I have been slowly “rationalizing” them. Each one is a little different, not just in layout and appearance but also in what it tells. It’s…… Continue reading All about About
Themes Galore
Day Five: Love Your Theme This is day five of the Blogging 101 course and the assignment is: Try out at least three other themes — even if you’re happy with the one you first chose. Try one you’re drawn to, and one you would never use. This one I have taken it easy on.…… Continue reading Themes Galore
Hello Reader
Who are the readers of this blog? The assignment for today in the Blogging 101 course is this: Publish a post you’d like your ideal audience member to read, and include a new-to-you element in it. Ideal audience member? I cannot define an ideal reader any more than I could define a perfect friend. In friendship…… Continue reading Hello Reader
A little more of “why?”
Why would a long-time blogger join Blogging 101? “There is always more to learn.” — “Learning is fun.” — “Learning is living!” Then there is the Chinese proverb: “Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” Persuasive truisms these are; as Yodda would have said. “Anybody can learn, even little kids do it all…… Continue reading A little more of “why?”
Day 2 -It gets hard already
Blogging 101 – Day Two: Take Control of Your Title and Tagline One of my frequent laments is “why does everything turn into a learning experience?!” Now I did enter the Blogging 101 course with eyes wide open. I love to learn, have been doing it for over eighty years! I hope to be doing it for…… Continue reading Day 2 -It gets hard already