RUMI NATION’S Acceptance “Speech”

RUMI NATION and the Versatile Blogger Award

Your Likes

Finally, finally those bloggers who like the VBA posts are showing up! Yay!

A Sampling of Nations

A sampling of visitors from around the world. The VBA winners represent our world very well. 

Country	Views
United Kingdom	54
United States	40
Spain	16
Canada	14
Italy	13
Philippines	9
Germany	9
Pakistan	8
Australia	4
Greece	4
Netherlands	3
Brazil	3
France	3

 

PORTRAITS IN AFRICA- THEN AND NOW / Young Gallery – (redif) – www.belafrikamedia.com – WEBTV

Portraits in Africa – Then and Now ( Young Gallery ) – video.

Happy Anniversary VBA

I just noticed quite by accident that I started the VBA blog exactly one year ago today! I’m totally surprised as I had no idea this little site has been up and running a full 365+ days.

Thank you one and all for your continued support of your fellow bloggers out there in the blogosphere. Each one of you is unique and worth reading.

Here’s to the Versatile Blogger Award and each one of you, my fellow VBA winners!

A great “acceptance speech” for the VBA…

A Frame Around Infinity

Blogging has changed since the last time I did it during the dark ages of the internet in 2006.

Today we have the integrated blog stats that WordPress so thoughtfully provides us all, informing me at a glance how many clicks I’ve received per day and what the clickers were clicking on and where the clickers came from, both geographically and via the internet.

We have “Likes”, which on all but the most popular blogs have replaced the standard comments of yesteryear.  There were no such thing as Likes in 2006.  If you liked something someone wrote, you would tell them by leaving a comment and let them know what exactly you liked about it.

(Not that I’m at all complaining: the world is a much busier place than it was in 2006, and comments take time to compose while Likes are quick and dirty.  I’m grateful to know at…

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Yum! Yum! Cupcakes Made With Nutella

Nutella cupcakes? Yes…

Take a look at the photographs of the birds in this post! Very nice!

Wind Against Current

By Vladimir Brezina

In February, we spent a few days kayaking on the Gulf Coast of Florida, in the St. Petersburg area. While Johna was edging into artistry at the Sweetwater Kayak Symposium, I rented a kayak and paddled around taking photos of birds.

There were birds everywhere. And while not exactly tame, they were not shy at all. In fact, they had clearly found that in some ways living beak-to-cheek with humans was to their advantage.

While some of the birds still did their own fishing in the old-fashioned way…

… others had found that there was a better way. Every human fisherman—and there were many—had at least one or two birds looking over his shoulder. Of course, it’s possible that they were just being friendly…

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A Short Preview of my novel: METAL MAN WALKING

At the suggestion of a reader, I’m posting a short preview of my novel, METAL MAN WALKING.

Thanks for Your Patience

Yes, yes, yes — I am way way way behind on adding new winners to the VBA Blogroll.