Bird vs. Fish

Jay Cooke State Park

It’s a beautiful day in the high 70’s (!!!) in northern Minnesota today! I’ve been in Duluth for the weekend and it’s the first sign of spring here. These are the warmest temps of the year so far. I parked across Hwy 23 from a trail head and took a long walk on Spruce Trail. […]

WI Rare Birds: 3rd Week April

yellow rail: YERA is now returning to breeding territories long-billed curlew

WI Rare Birds: 2nd Week of April

black-throated sparrow

Service Bar “inactive”

In WordPress, the row of icons I like is often called the service bar, though it has other names too. Oftentimes, they’re built in as “font awesome” icons, which are great. Since the icons are so friendly, I like the idea of clicking them as buttons themselves. I also need the flexibility to specify whatever […]

No Preview Available

Here it continues: one of the hardest parts about picking a theme is that, as I mentioned in a prior post, the “live preview” is often not helpful. You need to have your site setup just the right way, and even so, there still may be settings to change before you get a sense of […]

WI Rare Birds: 1st Week of April

These are some rare species that have been found historically in the state during the first week of April. ancient murrelet Very rare but possible feeder birds… black-throated sparrow

Too Much Banner

I don’t want a banner or slider that takes up the whole front page. I want visitors to see content and not just a pretty picture dominating the screen when they first visit my site. So, some themes I might otherwise like aren’t quite what I’m looking for… Pinnacle Dispatch Personal Portfolio Innovation Lite

Themes That Match My “Wants”

Right now, I’m rocking health-center-lite, which matches the basics of what I’m looking for. Yet, using it has revealed a few strange features (or lack thereof). For example, it is not responsive (nor even really adaptive?) as far as I can tell. Enigma-parallax looks nice. Is Advertica too flashy? All of these (and Invert Lite, […]

The Task of Picking a Theme

So, now I have this fancy WordPress-powered site to up my professional game, but let me tell ya: picking a theme is way harder than I thought! I need a webpage that, for now, showcases me as I look for a job post-graduation. First off, I’m not a designer, so it took me quite a bit […]

Say’s Phoebe

We were lucky to dart out this evening in time to find a Say’s phoebe that had been reported in Verona, WI.