Love the butterflies, the lighthouses, the eagles and the little 'mommies' with their baby buggies! ;)

Nice set, and the sequel was great as well; "The Mommies Return" :-O

lol, Alex. :D

good old summertime....;O)

Several great lighthouse pictures today!

The picture ("THIS POLE WAS BURIED UNDER …") from 2004 caught my curiosity today; I didn't remember seeing that one before, so off to "This Week in History¹". From there I choose 2004 and scrolled down to the last picture on the page, and there it was: Sunday. July 25.

Well sure enough, I had seen it before, I just didn't recognize the close-up.
Once at "This Week in History", I also decided to re-visit Victoria Falls (the 4th picture).

It was a pleasure to see the pictures from "yesteryear" (11 years ago), but there was something more. I encourage you to follow my steps and (re-)visit both of those pages to see it for yourself.

When there, I was stunned by the difference between those pages and more recent ones.

What difference? The vibrant, enthusiastic conversations and contributions from so many regulars and visitors that were as enjoyable as the pictures, something that seems to be missing these days. Now we seem to only have a handful of regulars here each day; where did everyone else go? Have we done something to drive them away?

Here's just one snippet from a visitor's comment on the Victoria Falls page:

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Quote:

"… I have to say I love the wonderful attitude of all the folks at this site! Everyone seems so friendly …"

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FRNash, you are so right! I went back into those earlier years, and there's a night and day difference in the number of folks commenting daily. And the conversations were so lively and interesting, on all sorts of different subjects. I spent a lot more time than I should have reading and reading. So many times I've wondered what happened to a lot of the regulars. There used to be a gentleman who was a wizard with words - can't remember his name, a very interesting person.

I too wonder, what happened to so many of the old regulars.

Greta Jones (Urbanescapees):
"… There used to be a gentleman who was a wizard with words - can't remember his name, a very interesting person."

I'll betcha you were thinking of (click →) Mr. Wheatman! 😉 Has he really been MIA since 2009?

yeah, frnash and greta, i remember the old days
also. wish the old days would return as i thought
the discussions were entertaining.

Welcome to the world of Facebook!
The only constant in the universe is change.

Love the butterflies, the lighthouses, the
bridge, the eagles, the sky, the beaches...guess
I love them all.

Yep, for sure I've noticed the decline for quite
some time now. It's sad. We used to have such a
great time on this site. I still love coming to
look at the pictures and see the wonderful
creations that come from all of the
photographers. But it will never be like it used
to be. We can only wonder why, I guess.

I'm wondering where Charlotte has been. I've
sent her e-mails and don't get a response. It's
been quite a while now since I've heard from her
and am wondering if all is okay with her. And of
course, Gene passed away nearly 2 years ago
already. He sure loved to converse. I also miss
his e-mails but I at least get to talk with his
wife. I've met some great people on this site.
I hope it never goes away.

I second that Deb. Perhaps this site flows like the economy, with its peaks and valleys. It must deal with the infusion of new technologies and communications.

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

All I know is that I love tuning in, checking out the pix and chiming in.

FRNash...Amen!!

Yes FRNash, everyone back then added a spark to the conversation.

Some have tried to add a bit of interest lately but those posts were all ignored. It seems the focus now is commenting on the pictures.

From my observance over the years coming to Pasty Cam, the commenting on the pictures is a way out from nasty and rude comments on postings posted. Charlie & Mary don't have all the time in the world to be Pasty Policing. Just saying.

Exactly, Janie. There got to be so many problems
for Mary having to be the pasty police, that
people just started going away. That is also my
opinion...I just didn't quite know how to say it.
I'm pretty sure we all know about this. Some of
us just stuck it out because we love the site so
much.

I have experienced rude comments about what I posted. A lot of times, I know I do not use capital letters where needed....I was told about that from a certain person. If I use all capital letters at one time, because I was having trouble with my eyes, I was told about that, too. It was not from the pasty police either. I was told I could not say this and that, so I just started commenting on the pictures.

I am just saying.

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection", Nobody is perfect and that makes us special.

Been a bit toasty in Ontonagon today, 80°. My brother in Florida and my sister in Arizona think that's perfect.

The bears have been on the move. It's that time where mom kicks the kids out of the "house" looking for a mate...again. Had a young bear in our backyard this morning. It was better than watching the nature channel

Put your feeders up at night, we can't even find our bird feeder that the bear got two days ago. Stinkers!

Have a beautiful Sunday, wish you were all here in the YOOP!

I came across a story about a bear that got ahold of a 20 pound bag of dog food, ate all of it, then went into a food coma for about a half an hour. The home owner posted a picture of the bear on it's back passed out.

FRNash - Bingo!! Yes, it was Mr. Wheatman. Wasn't he an entertaining and enlightening person?
Learned a lot of new words from that gentleman.
George Piker - yes those conversations were not only entertaining, but also informative on a lot of various subjects, such as the Finnish language, food etc.
I'm not going to speculate on why so many people left the site. Sure was fun back then though.

FRNash - Bingo!! Yes, it was Mr. Wheatman. Wasn't he an entertaining and enlightening person?
Learned a lot of new words from that gentleman.
George Piker - yes those conversations were not only entertaining, but also informative on a lot of various subjects, such as the Finnish language, food etc.
I'm not going to speculate on why so many people left the site. Sure was fun back then though.

Please forgive the double post. I waited a few minutes for it to post - didn't - so I naturally thought it was my absent mind at the moment. :)
This computer has been stubborn as a mule today!:(