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Kate, of two great blogs, Chronicles of a Country Girl and Kate's Picture A Day, has graciously bestowed an award on my blog. Thank you, Kate!! It happened a few days ago.......it takes me awhile to get my act together and act apon things! When I finally decided to socialize in the blog world a few months ago, and after getting DSL which allowed me to upload photos, Chronicles of a Country Girl was one of the very first blogs I wandered into. I'm trying to remember how I got there.........I think from a comment Kate had left on Nannykim's blog. The "Country Girl" in Kate's blog title drew me in, and how grateful I've been for that happening. I had been searching for rural blogs without much success; most likely I just didn't know how to search.
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Kate's photography is absolutely excellent, and due to reading her blog, I found out that photos actually can be spruced up, and that there was photo-editing software bundled on my own computer. Yeah.......I was and remain pretty darn ignorant about photography. Kate is a superb story-teller, too, and along with her great photography, its a smashing combination!! I could go on and on........just go visit Kate's blogs!!!
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Ok, the rules of this particular blog award are:
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-----Show the award on your blog, and explain the rules.
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-----Designate this award to go on to 7 blogs which you admire and visit frequently. List those 7 blogs, providing a link to each.
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-----Visit those 7 blogs and tell them in a comment that you have given them an award.
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I feel honored that these 7 bloggers stop in at my blog. Truly, ALL readers are welcome and appreciated, whether they leave comments or not!
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Okie-dokie.........here we go, in alphabetical order.......the blogs I have chosen:
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1. A Feather Adrift - The author is Sherry, an Iowa resident and former attorney. I became acquainted with her blog and Russell's (Iowa Grasslands) at about the same time I discovered Kate's. Sherry's writing is great, and she delves into a wide variety of topics, and posts intriguing artwork accompanied by her commentary. She causes me to think......which I need to do! And, on my first visit to Sherry's blog, I picked up a stupendously delicious brownie recipe!
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2. An Arkansas Stamper - This is Pat's blog, and obviously, she's from Arkansas and has a stamping hobby. I'm grateful to Pat for introducing me to SkyWatch Friday! (By the way, how many SkyWatch sites did you visit this week, Pat?) Pat is around 70, I think, and I admire her positive outlook and her enthusiasm for blogging and life in general! Not that I consider 70 to be old......no way......it is looking younger and younger to me all the time!
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3. Confessions of a Midlife Trucker's Wife - This is Treasia's blog, and she also hails from Arkansas. She's in the throes of midlife, too, and offers good commentary on that subject in her posts. I really like her sidebar "Hot Flash" photo.......go check it out! It will give you a fresh perspective on midlife!
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4. Iowa Grasslands - This is Russell's turf. He's a former attorney, now teaching at an Iowa community college. Russell is a small town/farm boy at heart......I like that! His often nostalgic posts strike a common chord in my mind, and are always a pleasure to read! The first time I surfed to Russell's blog, he had just put up a great post about Buddy Holly and the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. He posts nice photos and artwork, too.
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5. Ruth's Visions & Revisions - Ruth is from Illinois and her blog is synonymous with the Brillante Weblog Award icon.......a GEM!! She is a textbook writer by trade, which is fascinating to me. Compassion permeates Ruth's blog, and her posts are a joy to read, filled with inspirational insights and poetry, and lovely photos!
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6. Rhymeswithplague - The author of this very witty blog is Bob Brague from Georgia. Hence, his clever blog title! And, if you admire CLEVER, undergirded by DECENT, then you'll enjoy his blog!! I'm trying now to recall where I first saw that very unique and odd cyber-name, "rhymeswithplague".........it was on a comment on author Scot McKnight's blog. When my eyes beheld the conglomerated word, "rhymeswithplague", my first thought was, "What sort of person would choose a name like that!?"........thus, I had to click on it and find out, and I've not regretted that impulse. Go and do likewise!
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7. The Human Race 600 - Last but not least, meet "caution flag", author of this blog from Michigan, chronicling her life as a wife and mother in a racing flag family, and her other life as a writing instructor at a community college. Her posts are unique and very humorous, and I have enjoyed making the online acquaintance of her flag family, certain members of which are fascinated by farm stuff! "Caution" is basically in midlife, too, but has younger children, giving her an interesting outlook.
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Ok, I was supposed to pick 7 blogs, so I did. But, there are many more equally excellent, beautiful, and enjoyable blogs on the list in the right sidebar!! Explore them all when you have time!
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Happy blogging and reading!!
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10 comments:
My goodness! Thank you, Jeannelle, for the award.
You mentioned that you thought I might be 70... well, yes, and then some. I've outlived my three score years and ten, and am grateful to the Lord every day. I'll be 74 years young come September (Good Lord willing, of course). It's bloggers like you, and several of those you mentioned, who are keeping me young at heart!
Thanks, again.
Thank you so much Jeannelle for the lovely award. I will treasure it very much.
For what it is worth now I was going to send it your way as well.
You're not only clever and fun, but sweet, as well! Thank-you.
The thing I like most about these awards, is then the award winner links out to more blogs and off I go blog hopping and finding new blogs!
Jeannelle, thanks for the award. It was most sweet of you. You however have taken most of my list of candidates! LOL. Most of my frequent blog reads are political or such, and I'm not sure such an award is appropriate, but I'll, give it a go, and send them round for sure! I'll get to it tomorrow. Thank you again.
Pat,
Congrats on being 74, then!!!
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Treasia,
You're double "brillante" now!!
And, thank you that you had one for me......this award really gets around, evidently!
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caution,
I'm not about any of those nice things, but thank you, anyhow!
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Kacey,
You're right.....blog awards are good for that! I wonder what the very first blog award ever was, and who started it??!
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Sherry,
Oh, I don't think you'll be prosecuted or anything if you don't pass the award along to the full seven blogs, or to anyone, for that matter.
Jeannelle, thank you so much. I haven't been ignoring you. It's just been a busy two days.
I will think about who to pass the award to and post this in a couple of days.
Thank you again. And congratulations on your own award.
Jeannelle, thank you so much for the very kind things you said about me. I don't remember how I stumbled upon your blog, but I know when I got there that I thought you'd been blogging for quite some time.
I've always enjoyed reading blogs of others who live in different parts of the country. I'm so glad we 'met'!!
Hi, Ruth!
I never even consider that anyone is "ignoring"......everyone has a life outside of blogging!! (I think.)
Congrats again on your short stories being published!
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country girl,
Once again....your new photo looks really cool! Thanks for stopping by, and everything I said about your blogs is true and then some!! Keep up the great work!
Thanks again for the award!
Jeannelle, you mean all I had to do to win a blog award was to teach you to say "a thousand thanks" in Norwegian? Seriously, thank you for enjoying my writing and for giving my blog an award. It's my first blog award, not counting having been tagged a little while back, and I want to thank my agent, my hair stylist, my chauffeur, my...oh, wait, I think I may be overreacting.
Sorry for expressing my gratitude via this very late note, but I've been computerless since last Sunday. I sincerely appreciate your having selected me (Grammar Rule #703: The subject of a gerund is in the possessive case).
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