A promise of things to come

As I have been clearing things in my garden today I thought this would be a lovely reminder of what has gone and a promise of things to come

angst + featureyo
I had the procedure done for my stomach and hopefully everything will be okay .  For anyone who remembers all my complaining about it .
Also, I've been checking DDs every day, and it's really sad how much less attention they get now.  I looked at today's just an hour ago and half of them hadn't broken the 200 fave mark ><.  It's not any specific member's fault, I think it's just that the DDs (and journals) aren't in the footer anymore and so they're forgotten.  Or, they have a computer like mine that takes ages to load any of the tabs, especially if you have it set to go right to the Today page ><. 
At first, I thought the DDs were the only things really negatively affected (besides members' feelings of control of their profiles and work), but now I'm noticing how. . . dead it's getting around here.  There are still a lot of people here, etc., but I think a lot of the 'old guard' have packed up and left.  The only work that