Pictures are worth a thousand hits

I have heard pictures are worth a thousand words. I don't know if it is true but I know they are worth their weight in website hits. I know this because I can write a blog worthy of a Pulitzer Prize and I get a handful of hits but if I post a picture of Brooklyn Decker or Ana Ivanovic and ClubHusband's page counter lights up like a pinball machine.

Could it be because my visitors are illiterate? No way, anyone smarter enough to read me must obviously be able to read. Could it be because my readers like pictures of hot tennis players like Ashley Harkleroad, better than they like the merits of mowing a lawn in a north, south pattern versus east, west? My guess would be yes.

Imagine that? Men and some women, would rather look at taut young athletic bodies than reading about short green plants that masquerade as my lawn.

I could say I don't understand it but I am also one of those people. It is so much easier to look at Maria Sharapova than it is to follow my drivel before a third cup of morning coffee. Maria has long legs and blonde hair which make her easy on the eyes. My pontifications take some thinking to be appreciated even by me and I write this literary litter.

So I post pictures and hope while you are here, you will take the time to read my utterly fascinating posts on fire pit building or prime rib cooking, before you surf away in search of more Playboy pictures of Ashley Harkleroad or candid shots of Andy Roddick's girlfriend, Brooklyn Decker.

My posts may not have long legs and blonde hair but after four cups of coffee you may find them amusing.

I know I do.