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FOTD Tulips from Longwood Gardens

Cee Neuner posts a Flower of the Day Challenge. I have enough flower pictures in my archives to post every day for about three years, but I’ve never posted every day for an extended period of time, and seldom more than once a day. Since I have other projects in the works, I’m in a…

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Cee Neuner posts a Flower of the Day Challenge. I have enough flower pictures in my archives to post every day for about three years, but I’ve never posted every day for an extended period of time, and seldom more than once a day. Since I have other projects in the works, I’m in a quandary.

Cinquain by Willow Dot

Nature resplendent

Warm colours challenge the sun.
Glory to behold
FOTD tulips from Longwood Gardens

April is coming up and Becky B’s Bright Squares are coming up in two days.

So here’s my question, how do you feel about posting more than one post per day?

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62 responses to “FOTD Tulips from Longwood Gardens”

  1. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
    Cindy Georgakas

    Beautiful tulips Marsha!
    I post 3 times a week and that is the most I can keep up with. I will only like 1 or 2 posts for someone who posts all of the time with a time crunch. Too much to keep up!
    💖

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      I agree, it’s too much for me. I’m trying to get through all the participants of all the photo challenges I linked to in my post today. I think I visited 41 and have 56 to go. That was two day’s worth. That’s a lot to bite off, but I couldn’t do it if I posted every day. So I hear you. Even so, I will visit soon because I think of you often and miss it when I don’t! 🙂 Have a lovely rest of the week. 🙂

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      1. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
        Cindy Georgakas

        I know and that’s just from your contests and now you see why I don’t do them.. I’d love to though. No pressure but I always love seeing you when you have time. xoxoxo 💖💖💖

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          I don’t normally try to visit everyone who participates, but I wanted to challenge myself and support the hosts as well. Everyone works hard at creating a community, everyone in their own way. For now, this works for me, but when it doesn’t I will do something else. The good news for me is that I have been an active blogger and an inactive one. The people who have been my true friends have remained friends over the past nine years. There’s a lot of encouragement in that, don’t you think?

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          1. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
            Cindy Georgakas

            I know it’s tough and important to me to do the same as well. I think it’s so awesome and I love meeting your followers through your work which is so lovely. It’s awesome what you’re created. I miss the ones that drop off and always am sending them love through the eithers. It’s a special relationship to have friends for that long for sure!💖

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          2. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            We are so alike, Cindy. Relationships are so important to both of us. 🙂

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          3. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
            Cindy Georgakas

            Yes, it’s sooooo true Marsha!!! 💖

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          4. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            hearts and flowers. I don’t know how to do that on my computer. 🙂

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          5. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
            Cindy Georgakas

            your words and always hearts and flowers to me💖

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          6. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Awww and yours to me! 🙂

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          7. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
            Cindy Georgakas

            💖💖🙏🙏

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  2. Lisa Coleman Avatar
    Lisa Coleman

    I like to post every day. Sometimes 2 or 3 posts per day. They are mostly shorts, but of course I have my long posts on Friday for Bird Weekly and the roundup. Both of those take me a couple hours or more to complete. My stats go up exponentially when I post more than one per day. It is because I have so many interests that I can’t hone in on one thing. If I ever have to get a job again away from home, my blogging will go down to a few a week again. I won’t be happy with that. 🙂

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      It is fun to blog. When the weather gets super nice and we are out more often. I’ll probably blog less. But I blog in the night, too.

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      1. Lisa Coleman Avatar
        Lisa Coleman

        I’m having a blast! 🙂

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          Yay! You deserve to, Ms. three blog posts written in one day! 🙂

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          1. Lisa Coleman Avatar
            Lisa Coleman

            Just call me a triple threat. 😂😂😂

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          2. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            I will call you Super Blogger. 🙂

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          3. Lisa Coleman Avatar
            Lisa Coleman

            I’ll create a logo that is better than Superman. LOL! 🙂

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          4. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Super Birder! 🙂

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          5. Lisa Coleman Avatar
            Lisa Coleman

            I created the logo. I will email it to you tomorrow. LOL!

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          6. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Can’t wait to see it! 🙂

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          7. Lisa Coleman Avatar
            Lisa Coleman

            It is hilarious. 😊

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          8. Lisa Coleman Avatar
            Lisa Coleman

            I forgot to email it. Today was busy.

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          9. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Me too. We went on an 11 mile bike ride, then I walked another 3,000 steps today. Plus I worked on two posts. I think you’re going to love them.

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          10. Lisa Coleman Avatar
            Lisa Coleman

            That is awesome! I just saw the Valley of Fire and loved that! 🙂

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          11. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            It was so awesome. Here is another post with more pictures. https://tchistorygal.net/2020/02/28/another-fabulous-low-cost-trip-minutes-from-las-vegas/

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  3. Toonsarah Avatar
    Toonsarah

    I don’t think I would ever post more than once a day as I tend towards posts with a fair amount of content, not just a single photo with a caption. So I’ve deliberately not engaged with FOTD other than admiring some of the photos posted by bloggers I follow. I sometimes feel my own average of one most days is too much so I’m reassured that most of the people commenting here seem to aim for that. I have a feeling when the world reopens a bit and I can do more (visit galleries / eat out / travel) my own blogging rate will drop, maybe to only a few each week. Let’s see!

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      You do have a lot of interesting and meaningful content. Mine can be depending on what I’m trying to accomplish with the post. I haven’t done many quick posts, but I’m planning to participate in Becky B’s squares for the first time in April (as a regular thing) I interviewed her, and I like to support the ones I interview. It is easier for me than with the writing challenges, which are not my comfortable style. I’m more of a journalist, teacher, and poet. Short stories take more time. 🙂

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  4. Norah Avatar
    Norah

    I have never posted that often. Twice a week is usually enough for me. I often unfollow bloggers who post more often than that as it clogs up my inbox and I don’t have time to read that many posts by one person.

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Yikes! don’t unfollow me! If I do it’s just Becky’s squares for a month. But I might rethink it and combine several.

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      1. Norah Avatar
        Norah

        That’s just me, Marsha. Sometimes I unfollow. Sometimes I have a quick look and read the posts that interest me. Other times I just ignore them until something pops out. You, I’d never unfollow, but I may not read all your posts. I’ll be selective. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          I don’t mind. I can’t read all of everyone’s posts. You and I have a relationship that transcends daily commenting. Once you speak on the phone and email , and in some cases, our blogging friends move into a higher level. which doesn’t preclude daily comments, but doesn’t depend on them to keep the friendship going. However, if a close friend like you are unfollowed me, I would worry that I had done something terribly wrong when in fact it might be a glitch.

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          1. Norah Avatar
            Norah

            If I unfollow you, Marsha, it’s definitely a glitch. Our friendship transcends temporary silences. 🙂

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          2. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Agreed. It’s way more important that a million posts! 🙂

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  5. BeckyB Avatar
    BeckyB

    I think anyone who does more than 1 post a day is amazing – as a reader though i find it is a challenge to read every post of every blogger i follow even when they only post every few days, so it does mean I sometimes I can miss out on multiple posts by someone. Makes me sad when I can’t keep up, but I have to be realistic about what I can read

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      That’s true for me too. I have set a goal to read all the posts by all the people who participated in the photo challenges that I participated in with my quote challenge. I got through 26 today so far. I like what it does for the community, but, like you say, it’s hard to keep up. I was thinking of doing your post every day for April, but it sounds like you advise against that. 🙂

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      1. BeckyB Avatar
        BeckyB

        Glad not just me!!

        Ahhh only as a host I say be cautious. So go for daily April, remember as a participant you don’t have to visit everyone else every day just post your square!!!

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          And yet you will be reading everyone’s post, Becky. You’re going to have a busy month. I’ve heard lots of buzz about people getting their posts ready. Happy Thursday tomorrow and Have a beautiful and bright Easter.

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          1. BeckyB Avatar
            BeckyB

            Thanks Marsha 🥰

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  6. willowdot21 Avatar
    willowdot21

    Beautiful Tulips 💜💜

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Thanks. I should have written a poem.

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      1. willowdot21 Avatar
        willowdot21

        Nature resplendent
        Warm colours challenge the sun.
        Glory to behold 💜💜

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  7. restlessjo Avatar
    restlessjo

    Irene’s right! Do what works for you. Posting daily runs me ragged, especially on a challenge as popular as Becky’s. I feel I have to visit everyone and there’s no time left for just living. 🙂 🙂 Nice tulips!

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      I have one picture ready per day and not many words. I can schedule them. I can’t get every one visited, though.

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      1. restlessjo Avatar
        restlessjo

        And respond to all the comments! It’s a major undertaking and I have to really want to do it. 🤔💕

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          Yes, that is huge.

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  8. Jim Borden Avatar
    Jim Borden

    Longwood Gardens is a great place to visit – nice to see it featured.

    I sometimes find it hard to keep up with bloggers who post just once a day; posting more than once makes it even more difficult…

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      I’m not sure you can keep it up!

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      1. Jim Borden Avatar
        Jim Borden

        for some of the people I follow who make more than one post a day, I just pick one of them to read and comment on…

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          You can’t read everything everyone writes. But you get several people , or maybe only one where you commit to read everything or a lot of posts. I do that when I interview people. I delve deeply into their blog and get to know them. But I don’t do that with everyone. I can’t. 🙂

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          1. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            I agree; there just is not enough time in the day to read all the blogs you would like to. So you have to make some choices…

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          2. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            That you do. Also people tend to go in spurts. You read for a while, then you both drop off for a while. It takes work just like with any other relationship. 🙂 and I get up with comment boxes and then don’t go back and visit for a while.

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          3. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            blogging does take work, that is for sure. but it is work I enjoy…

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          4. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Me too! 🙂

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          5. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            👍

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  9. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Beautiful tulips, Marsha. I try to post at least once a day but occasionally post twice and sometimes miss a day completely. I think the most important thing is to keep the fun in blogging. Decide what is comfortable for you, post consistently, and enjoy the interaction.

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Nice response and great advice.

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  10. Cee Neuner Avatar
    Cee Neuner

    Oh I adore this tulip photos of yours 😀 😀

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Thanks, Cee. I love flowers. I just needed to get organized.

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  11. Sadje Avatar
    Sadje

    I post 3-4 times a day. 😜

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Well if you can, I guess I’m not out of line.

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      1. Sadje Avatar
        Sadje

        Not at all! 👍👍👍

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