Ads

I kept getting recommendations to include advertisements on my blog. I do get a fair number of hits per day, so it seemed logical that I try to generate some money from all of the essays and photos that I post here. I figured the ads wouldn't be that intrusive, and some of my favorite blogs have them.

So I added them.

Then I saw a couple of ads for items that not only wouldn't I buy, but things that are offensive to me.

So I killed off the ads.

Don't worry. They won't be coming back.

So what if I don't make any money from my essays? I don't care. Every now and again I will get inquiries about rights to use some of my photos and I have earned some money from the blog that way. And I often use this place as a writing exercise for works that I later sell. That's payment enough for me. I can do without ads for obnoxious things--some of them downright vile.

From here on out...just the essays and the photos and occasional jots of works-in-progress.

Brilliant color in Kumbrabow State Forest in West Virginia in October of 2011.