Spring is in the air and the blogs are blooming
2008 April 26
Update: The madness continues. See the Meta-Morph below.
A couple of friends have revamped the design torn down the walls and started over on their blogs:
- ElShaddai Edwards dumped that eye-popping trombone picture on his blog and replaced it with a dramatic picture of…a sprout. We all liked it, kinda. But in the end he brought back that bold red image and even added a touch of red here and there. It’s nice. Go check it out: He is sufficient.
- Peter Kirk removed the mountain and cast it into a sea of lovely green grass. His blog is now as blue and green as that most exotic and treasured thing: a sunny day in England. Wander in the fields of green: Gentle Wisdom.
- JK Gayle tweaked this and that on his blog. Didn’t it used to be black? Well, I’m a contributor now so maybe I can put a big fat hippo in the sidebar.
- Jim West who you might know likes to change his blog theme on a daily basis recently changed his blog to the most revolting color of green. Go see it quick before it changes: Jim West. [Update: Too late. It changed.]
- And the whole blog world is abuzz with news that Eclexia is going to blow up the bridge on her blog. That chilly scene is going to be exchanged for an image of malaria induced blood cells bursting.
- Doug Chaplin just wiped out everything on his blog and reappeared as a crisp corporate Zen post-thingy kind of blog with little plants hanging in the lobby. Dang, that is gorgeous. See Meta-Catholic. [Update: It's gone! Please bring it back.]
- What next, my friends? Will Better Bibles Blog convert to WordPress? I have the key to the staff entrance now. I might just do it myself. How about the Banana theme?
Speaking of hippos, I made a few changes around here today as well. I reverted to the blue hippo again. It’s just so wild and weird. I dumped “Donate” at the top and changed it to “Contribute.” And I also got rid of a few of the links up there. I also added “Cyber-Psalms” you can click there and see the latest and always growing list of what have been called by one well-known blogger “weird and irrelevant” poems, prayers and songs.
Thanks for the “well-known blogger” plug. But I was trying to be nice about your cyber-psalms! Actually I meant to point out that the spring theme of your latest one, even if it is only “a spiritual Spring”, is much more seasonal here than it must be for you in the Southern Hemisphere.
My sea of green grass is by no means English. Tim Chesterton, who should know, suggested it is a Canadian prairie. But we do get green and blue days like that here in England occasionally. Today was one, and I have just been struggling to get rid of green weeds sprouting quickly under a blue sky. For spring is indeed in the air.
PS I’m not going to change my main blog back to my old theme. But the mountain is still alive and well on my second blog, which has been dormant since November but may yet be revived. With nine views so far this month it is doing rather better than in March, when it received only two views in the whole month.
A second blog. How extravagant (I sent another visit your way). And yes we are heading into winter. We’re all wearing layers and I just saw Hilary in a knit cap. The nice thing about winter here is that the poinsettas are all turning red. Some of them are more than 10 feet tall!
The hippo is always welcome; why in the margins? Black? Female?