81 of 100: Instagram six-packs

I haven't been spending much time on Facebook lately. It's become too ad-heavy, too laden with groups "I might like," steered by an algorithm outside my control and druthers—and posts I might actually want to see don't seem to appear in my feed. I'm considering bagging FB, although it does offer a particular way of communicating that IG and Bluesky don't. So... we'll see.

Lately I've been posting a bit more on Instagram. I use IG and FB differently. Today, for example, I posted four shots of our white kitty Luna-ban on FB, a little chronicle (complete with mugshots):

I might post one of those on Instagram (probably the top one), but not all four. For IG, I seek out shots that I find personally meaningful or aesthetically pleasing. And I like a mix of looks or styles: close-up vs. distance, nature vs. built, local vs. somewhere on my travels. I may search back through phone shots, or lift one from years ago on Flickr, to create diversity, eclecticism. 

Here are my latest collections of six that I've featured on FB. They remind me of what a great life I have.

Norway in 2015 and the Cannery Row Dock Ricketts
statue (left); right four: Carmel River State Beach,
including on the far right the annual breaching of
the river (bottom) and the flowing river the next day

Top: grouse eggs, Ravi kitty, and window covering
(first and last from my Coast to Coast trek in May)
Bottom: Cannery Row statue and worker shack,
and construction on neighborhood bike path

Images from my birthday getaway in Murphys, CA,
plus, lower left, the Monterey Christmas tree

Homely imagery, with a Galapagos booby and
an Antarctic penguin thrown in for spice

Top left: a performance of David's recent composition
for string quartet; bottom left: termite wings;
bottom right, Fishermans Wharf Monterey

All the eyes: Lascaux, France; cats keeping a sick David
company; and Madagascar: a tenrec, a Satan's gecko,
a chameleon, and lemurs

I am toying with the idea of another Project 365—a photo a day—and reviving my fairly moribund Flickr stream, though I'd probably also post to IG. But I do seem to be wandering away from FB these days. It's not a bad thing.