No Kings! No MAGA! No Domestic Terrorists! Minnesota will not Stand Down & will not Stand for this insane immoral inhumane sickness.

For weeks been landscaping, over weekend up and down stairs and ladders to ready a garage sale, yesterday did regular workout with stretching and elliptical. But, this morning could barely crawl outa bed. At 72 the old Lumbago on the decompressed lumbar is back. There goes my back for a few days.

Micro-clover in our turf makes a beautiful carpet, all natural with just Corn Gluten for both anti-weed pre-emergent & slow-release fertilizer. You can have emerald green, I like clover green!

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This little leaf branching out on our big ol' Red Maple on a rainy Spring day.

Once again, a public library book oddly dropped into our Little Free Library. Checked out from a St. Paul location, due May 27. Will return in person and inform Librarian. Coulda been lost—whatever—but mark over id tag, Really? Our little corner stand ain’t no big ol' Library! Read all the things…

Perennial columbine blooms brightly in our wildflower bed.

Our Norway Red Maple is turning from red to green, showing crimson from lessening burgundy in the sun while glowing yellow from underneath as leaves develop. Nature does such colors.

More than a hundred Latino dancers with fantastic moves & colors in the Minneapolis May Day Parade on the way to Powderhorn Park. A long-standing community celebration of People Power & Worker/Human Rights.

Southside Battletrain belches fire in the Minneapolis May Day Parade on the way to Powderhorn Park. A long-standing community celebration of People Power & Worker/Human Rights.

Our first Dandelion of Spring, so May Day is just around the corner.

Today’s MN Star Tribune newspaper headlines are mind-boggling! UnitedHealth Group stock dropped 22% due to the annual profit estimate lowered from over $27 billion to just $24 billion. Meanwhile, hospitals are failing due to staffing costs. Why pay doctors and nurses, instead of massive profits?

Gigging the Long Tail

Picked up a fave black tea at United Noodles in Minneapolis. Chinese Lichee adds a pleasant fruit flavor—almost as nice as the incredible Currant Black Tea from Grand Fete in Hudson, Wisconsin. Good alternatives to swigging my morning coffee.

Encountered this discarded sign outside a bus stop along Minnehaha & East Lake near our abandoned Minneapolis Police station. Didn’t pay off?

Spring Equinox Sunset over East Lake Street, Minneapolis looking straight West. A bit stratified on horizon — clearer years, I capture a Yellow Ball hitting the pavements

Nine inches of heavy snow atop freezing rain in Minneapolis makes for lots of icicles and snow shelves.

“Remove trust and the ecosystems start to collapse,” writes Thomas Friedman in yesterday’s NYT. Seems so true of many areas of our world. From WordPress turning on it’s community to trade wars between partnering countries. We are losing our grasp on Sustainability, where we need to focus.

Commercial book publishing is such a tight industry, nice to see a little change. Blurbing on the backs of books is “an incestuous and unmeritocratic literary ecosystem that often rewards connections over talent.” So says Simon & Schuster publisher Sean Manning.[^1]: Publishers Weekly

Drupal 11 was an easy install on Cloudways. Will play in the demo app for a while, then eventually load the new CMS on top. Been a while since using Drupal. Hoping for the ideal UXs for both admin & users. Could be a sweet off-ramp from WordPress drama.

THE WORDPRESS MORPH

The WordPress Morph is a WordPress Advisory 2025 for my consulting clients. WordPress enters 2025 disrupting the global ecosystem powering 42% of the web. Users need options for safe and continuing web services. Word & Image explores options: wordimage.com/blog/wordpress-advisory/

Just saying No to #WPdrama and yes to #DrupalCMS ‘cause FLOSS & AX both really matter.

After being sick much of November, putting an old cat to rest, getting stomach flu from Thanksgiving, and worrying about where Health Care is headed in this country, hoping to get back to some normal business this month.

RIP Chloe circa 2008—2024 She was a shelter cat with history, but a fun companion with lotsa spunk. Let the hole in my heart fill with sweet memories. Chloe’s Adoption Note

Attending “The Chicago Manual of Style Principal Reviser” talk at Open Book in Minneapolis today. CMOS 18 approves of Singular They. About Time! 40 years ago my work partner was finishing a Phd with studies of common use of the gender-neutral form, including text. Common practice for me.