#carousels

Whoa. Tonight I’m trying something new—Instagram via the desktop. Wild!      

I’ve been seeing stories about how the desktop version is rolling out  but I didn’t know if it would work for me. This is a long-wished for option.  I just opened Instagram on my browser and there was the “➕” at the top of my page on the Chrome browser. What does this mean for the average user?

Assuming it works, I think it will result in a more efficient workflow. ⏳

One thing won’t change—figuring out the visual content you’re going to share. ️ But that means working on a desktop where there is more control could result in better images.  When it comes to composing an extended caption, ⌨️ some of us like to check spelling✅ and keep an eye on the character count. That usually means writing in another app, like Word. 

Until now, it has been necessary to import the text into Instagram when it’s ready. I usually email it to myself, then copy and paste it into Instaspacer to clean up the copy. (Sometimes Instagram acknowledges line breaks, but not always.)  It’s not too much more work, but as we all try to squeeze every moment of productivity out of our time, ⏱️ being able to skip a step or two is great. ‍♀️

Since I’m just now going through the process, ‍♀️ maybe more discoveries will emerge. But for now, I’m going to get my pictures gathered  and see how it all comes together. I’m so excited! 

Have you tried Instagram using the desktop?️ What do you think? 
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PS. I ended up abandoning the desktop! It lets you apply filters, tags, captions, but allows only one photo per post—no #carousels. #backtothedrawingboard

#Instagramdesktop #instadesktopapp #Instagram #Newfeature
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Photos: #appletrees #spitzenbergapples #homemadeapplepie #seattlefall #goldenfall in front of @todayIsawdaily’s house; the last of my sister’s #homegrowntomatoes 
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A few days ago I returned from an Actual Week’s Vacation!  A bunch of friends and I rented a beach house on Long Beach Island, NJ (where I partly grew up and where my Mom lived until only a few years ago). I hadn’t been back since Mom moved to assisted living, and I missed it.  You can rent houses real cheap in October – but in fact we had PERFECT weather. Warm but not hot, the ocean itself was 70 F (which is as warm as it really gets on the Jersey Shore). 

I took So Many Pics.  So many that I’ll be doing a second post tomorrow.

Here:

Sunset on the first day, from the upper deck.  (I don’t even know what was up with that almost woven effect in the clouds but it was spectacular.)

Bear Mountain Carousel in Bear Mountain State Park, NY.  (We drove through on our way down, and the Carousel was open and working, so we stopped. It features a bunch of local animals, and the entire thing with all the paintings is just gorgeous.)

The view from the deck off the living room.  Wonderful place to sit and watch and listen to the ocean, while having a cup of tea in the morning.  Or any time, really.  (Signs on the dunes say: Stay Off the Dunes, and Don’t Feed the Seagulls, lol.)

Would it be a trip to the shore without mini-golf? I think not!  Sand Trap, the mini-golf course of my youth, my beloved.  (It’s been redone a bit since the time when I was REALLY small, but is still wonderfully familiar.)

Only subjecting you to one of eight billion pics I took for identification purposes of sandpipers.  Conclusion: either spotted sandpipers (in fall/winter plumage) or semi-palmated sandpipers; need to do more investigation. In the foreground, a laughing gull starting into winter plumage (i.e. losing the distinctive black head.)  And, a great black-backed gull in flight.

(To be perfectly honest, I was not as avid a birder in my youth, so I thought all of the big gulls were herring gulls.  And we DID have a ton of those.  But there were a LOT of great black-backed gulls mixed in, and now I’m wondering how many we had there when I was younger and I just didn’t notice.  The most obvious difference is the color of the feathers on top – the very dark for the black-backed, obviously, while the herring gulls have much lighter-grey wings.  Easy to tell apart, now that I know.  Was I just unobservant before?)

Still to come: more sunsets!  And a lighthouse!