Photo of the Week: Lapland Longspur, Winter Visitor

Small brown sparrow-like bird with rusty nape, and white-tipped rufous wings forages in the snow covered stubble of a harvested cornfield.

After more than two months of searching, I was finally able to find one Lapland Longspur in our area this weekend.

Time to celebrate!

Along with Snow Buntings, the Lapland Longspur is a winter visitor to our state of Michigan. Both birds breed in the far north Arctic in Canada and Alaska.

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February 18, 2022 Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn about the benefits of UX writers and technical writers teaming up, find six options for WordPress search, discover a whistle-stop tour of four CSS color features, and more.

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Seven Years of Asking: I’m Still Waiting for WordPress.com to Publish Captioned Videos

Hosted WordPress dot com home page as of February 2022, highlighting everything you need to build your website with WordPress with a call to action button to start your website..

I’m writing a post I didn’t think I would ever write. It’s about a multi-million dollar company where I’m a 10+ year customer.

And whose services I’ve advocated for years.

Which makes this post even harder to write.

In the past, I’ve contacted organizations and businesses about the inaccessibility of the content they’ve published on the web.

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