Picture Post: Ideal and Reality

The difficulties I had uploading pictures to my Photobucket account cleared up one day, and I stored the images I'd thought about building an experimental post around, but by that point I might have been thinking of "saving them for later." A post on another subject has been going pretty slowly, though, so the time to use the pictures seems now. So as to not to place a big footprint on the friends lists of others, I'm putting the pictures behind a cut.
( Ideal and reality )