I have been so busy with my consulting work and design of the River House that I failed to pause last month to note the 17th anniversary of this blog. According to my Dashboard, I have added 8,257 posts during that time (in the early days, I would treat each image as a stand-alone post which explains why the number is higher than 17 x 365 = 6,205). It is hard to believe so much time has passed since I started. It is also sobering to realize just how much time I have invested in creating the content which appears here. Assuming 20 minutes per day to capture a photograph, import it, edit it, post it and compose the text entry that equates to a total of 2,068 hours or 52 work weeks of effort. Was it worth it? In some ways, that is not for me to judge. What keeps me going, however, is knowing how many people look in from time to time. Over the course of a year, the number is roughly 325,000 which works out to an average of about 900 visits per day. To all of you, I am grateful for the inspiration you provide.

Over the coming days, I will be migrating the blog to a new hosting company. My current provider is prone to hacker attacks of which I was a recent victim (for about the fourth time). The transition to a more intrinsically secure provider should be seamless but if the site goes dark for a few days, that will be the reason for it.