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# Last Christmas . . . 
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Looking back over my blog today I was somewhat amused to see this post from almost a year ago . . .

> Here is the Christmas Wreath I made, which is now hanging on our front door. I thought it was perfect for my first Thursday Green post.

> Looking forward to posting all the other colours.

[![christmas wreath.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/640x480/https://steemitimages.com/DQmTe3xJPUnKLZeEyybk6RWzUv8DYbJnpGh9UrvGGjZqhg6/Christmas%20Wreath.jpg)](https://steemitimages.com/640x480/https://steemitimages.com/DQmTe3xJPUnKLZeEyybk6RWzUv8DYbJnpGh9UrvGGjZqhg6/Christmas%20Wreath.jpg)

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It was my first day on Steemit and my second post.

I got one comment and 2 upvotes. The person who commented hasn't posted herself for 4 months and, in that month only posted twice. She hasn't powered down her 600 odd Steem though.

When I started I had no idea how much I'd get into the #colorchallenge. I know a lot of people pooh pooh it for not being "proper" content but it was a big factor in keeping me posting for most of my time here.

It changed the way I looked at the world and, for a time, I thoroughly enjoyed going out and about looking for photographic subjects that I could use in a post.

This was obviously not one of my better ones since it was just a single photograph with 2 sentences but I improved as time went on.

I even learned to do collages as a result of the challenge. In fact, maybe I'll do a post about that sometime.

Months ago @madlenfox suggested I make a post containing all my colour collages but I never got around to it.

In fact, there are many posts I never got around to writing. There was the mother's day one, the last one from my Gozo trip, the #wednesdaywalk snail trail, Steemfest, lightning from a plane. I could on. &#128514;

Sadly, the challenge appears to be another casualty of the slow down on Steemit but it was good fun while it lasted.

Thank you @kalemandra for creating and running it and thank you to all the people who engaged with me as a result of it. &#128153;

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