I never expected to have so many amazing icons entered. Landscapes are, I think, much harder than people icons. The crops are so much harder to find and there are so many more possibilities in coloring to consider when one isn't constrained by skin tones. Keeping faces recognizable and attractive definitely narrows down possible selections.

I thought, actually, we'd have a ton of skips, a bunch of "eh" entries, and a couple of stunning icons. I was totally wrong and I can't tell you how much that pleases me. :)

One of my favorite parts of LIMS is the alternates entry. It's really cool to see the icons people made, the variations they created while coming up with their entries, and which one was chosen for entering. (It's so easy to lose perspective.)

I really should have entered last week but I had an attack of nerves. I was away from home and the internet. I kept dithering over which icon to enter because there was something wrong with each of them. Since I couldn't sit there and stare at the icons and make a selection, I opted to just skip. *shrug* Live and learn.

I ended up not getting to add comments to my vote. :( The unfolding drama as each vote was cast of the vote ties, tie-breaker, another tie, etc. was time consuming. Beeej and I were trying to pick out Mods' Choices; both the identity and the number of Members' Choices determined our choices. It was an hour and a half of madness. :)