{"id":2879,"date":"2019-12-30T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T20:03:23","slug":"there-wont-be-anymore-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"There Won’t Be Anymore Mondays<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

As 2019 rapidly comes to a close (in less than 48 hours as of this posting), it’s time to briefly reflect and project about the year past and the year to come.<\/p>\n

2019 was a challenge for me as my life changed this past summer which in the long run did not allow me to take as many photos as I usually did. I also did not post to this blog very much this year, though in recent weeks I’ve been trying to amend that.<\/p>\n

For the most part, 2019 was OK. I survived. The blog survived and I was still able to pay the hosting fees. The Hawaii Files Channel<\/strong><\/a>, which is supposed to be the YouTube companion to this blog, mostly floundered this past year. Perhaps the new year will be better.<\/p>\n

Our old Flickr<\/strong><\/a> site was severely de-emphasized after the hosting fees for unlimited photos increased by 100%. Bad, bad Flickr. Can’t recommend them anymore. So what happened there was that more than 21,000 of my 22,000 photos I had posted there were removed after being recovered through back-up from Flickr. Image removal had dire consequences on the embedded Flickr files that were use on this blog and several others that I publish.<\/p>\n

Today the Flickr site is just a 1,000 image shell of its former self, and will hardly be updated in the future.<\/p>\n

My Thumblr site was updated and re-purposed as more of a photography site which will pick up on some of the stuff that used to be on Flickr. And this blog will continue with at least, I hope, two posts per month. I hope to do more with it in 2020. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

To the few readers who may stumble into this blog and any regulars I may have, here’s wishing you all the best for the new year, 2020.<\/p>\n

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The last Monday sunrise cloud of 2019. Taken from Magic Island, Ala Moana Park, Honolulu.<\/p>\n

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Ala Moana Beach Park has been in the news lately and will be in the coming year as the current mayor is planning on making changes even though a major one was thwarted by regular park users. I’ll post about that and the park in general sometime next month. Ala Moana Park remains a favorite place for people to walk, jog, run, swim and exercise every day, rain or shine.<\/p>\n

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Green space at Ala Moana Park and Magic Island is highly valued in the concrete and steel urban jungle of Honolulu.<\/p>\n

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Sunrises from Ala Moana Park \/ Magic Island are a special, daily treat.<\/p>\n

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The morning sun meanders through the shade trees on Magic Island.<\/p>\n

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