Yesterday’s evening sun was a strange shade of intense orange, almost something you might expect to see in a Mark Rothko painting. (Like, for example, his “Orange and Yellow” canvas, found at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum: https://buffaloakg.org/artworks/k19568-orange-and-yellow.)
I tried to take a picture, but the sun didn’t show up at all on my phone’s screen. Which was kind of unsettling at first, to be looking right at it in real life but seeing only empty gray sky above that chimney on my screen.
The sun did show up when I tapped the screen, albeit in this weirdly two-toned pinkish orange, yellow-centered orb. The outer rim (pinkish orange) is the exact shade of last night’s sun. Beautiful, but eerie.
When all is said and done, I have to say that I really like the way my iPhone image turned out, even though it’s clearly some kind of error and patently false. The more I think about it, the more it feels like a Mark Rothko sun. And if that’s what the lens “saw,” well, who’s to say what was or wasn’t there?
An image is an image is an image, right?😀
(I actually wrote this post on Sunday. Today is Tuesday. After getting zero views since hitting “publish,” despite rechecking my stats hopefully every now and then, it finally occurred to me that maybe I should check on this post’s status. Could there be a technical issue? Or did people just really not like it. Like they disliked the preview so much they couldn’t even be bothered to open it up from the reader or email and view the actual post! Sure enough, it was a “technical” issue. So to speak. I wrote the post on my phone app instead of my laptop, and for whatever reason, when I pressed “publish,” it did NOT publish. It’s reassuring to know that the main reason I got zero views, comments, or likes is that this post was still in my drafts folder! Fingers crossed that people will respond to it at least a little bit more once I actually hit “publish,” L O L)
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Katherine Wikoff 
Hi Katherine- Hope you are doing well. I have received 2 WordPress notifications months in the past day alerting me to a this post from you, but when I click to view it tells me “You are not authorized to view this post.” So that is why you are not getting any views on it. I’m not sure why it displays that message because I am definitely still a subscriber to your blog? Have you changed your blog settings? Hoping this isn’t something thorny to sort out. Take care and stay cool out there!
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Oh my goodness, that’s really strange! I must have messed something up by trying to do that post on my phone. When I published it just now and then went to check that it showed up under my published posts tab, not my drafts folder, the date/time info showed it as having been published yesterday. Thank you so much for leaving a comment and letting me know! I was completely in the dark. Good grief, “not authorized”!
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You’re welcome, Katherine. I have learned the hard way that when I create a post on my phone as a draft, it uses that create date as the actual publication date even if I subsequently edit and finish and officially hit the Publish button using WP from my laptop. The first time I did it, the post showed up with a date that was 6 days earlier than when I actually published it and so it would appear way way down in people’s view of the reader. My takeaway is to never create a post on my phone in Jetpack, and always create from the real WordPress version on a computer. YMMV. Good luck! And I loved the post btw.
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