Thank you for your support!

Photo by papalars @ flickr

From Denny: Just wanted to take the time to thank everyone for subscribing to the feed on this blog and all the others - and following on Blogger and other sites. You are much appreciated! Blogging is so much more fun when you have company and such good company you all are, thanks! Thank you for your support and hope you are enjoying your time here learning right along with me.

When Waves Collide

When Waves Collide, originally uploaded by acastellano.

Wow! Does this California beach look refreshing in this summer heat or what?! :) I am so ready for the weekend...

Purple and Orange Starfish on the Beach

Purple and Orange Starfish on the Beach, originally uploaded by TheMarque.

What an unusual coloring on this awesome large starfish! Beached or just snoozing?

New Additions to Photo Blog Roll!

From Denny: "Can I tell ya?" Spent hours and hours this past weekend pouring over some awesome photo blogs, amateur and professional alike, sifting through them to place the BEST on my blog roll for you! There are about 70 choices now - around there, I lost count... :)

If you enjoy looking at photos and want to see what is going on in the photo blogosphere then this is a good place to start. My blog roll list is located at my photo blog, Visual Insights.

Talk about a wonderful way to while away a few hours with beautiful and thought-provoking photos! Take a look and enjoy! Go here.

Awwww Sniffle Sniffle Sigh Awesome Photos

From Denny: This is one of those endearing profound emails you receive every now and then. Thought I'd share with you these awesome pictures. Thanks, Colleen in New Jersey! Try making your own version of this idea of matching photos with meaningful words that strike a chord in your heart! Feel free to share this post with others to enjoy.

*****

The Real Meaning of Words

LOVE



SORROW



INNOCENCE



DEPARTURE



PAIN



SOLITUDE



RESPECT



COMPASSION



FRIENDSHIP



MUSIC



PATIENCE



RESCUED



BEST FRIENDS



DIVINE



"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."

Twitter Counter Added to ALL Blogs

From Denny: Just added the Twitter Counter to all the blogs! Come by and drop off a link to YOUR NAME on Twitter! Great way for you to boost your followers and just plain fun. Get a little link love! :)

Have also started a reciprocal Link Love on The Social Poets and will be extending it to the other blogs too. Just email me, Denny Lyon, warriorspearl@gmail.com so I know which blog is the best fit for your site's link - unless you have a preference. Keep a link on your site or blog with a link to one of my blogs and I'll keep a link for you too.

If we don't promote each other in cyberspace, who will? :)

Here's the link to the Twitter Counter page to make your own:
http://twittercounter.com/pages/buttons/skydiver

Here are quick links to the various blogs:

The Social Poets

The Social Poets Fav Bloggers

The Social Poets Fav Links

The Healing Waters

The Soul Calendar

The Soul Calendar Fav Links

Romancing The Chocolate

Comfort Food From Louisiana

Dennys Blog Feeds

Visual Insights

Beautiful Illustrated Quotations

Ouch Outrageous Obnoxious And Odd

Thanks for visiting!

New Health and Humor Posts!

Photo of nuttall woodpecker feeding the family by mikebaird @ flickr - Mike is an awesome professional photographer! Check him out on flickr.

From Denny: Am working feverishly to get caught up on my daily posts on all blogs. Here are the latest updated blogs:

The Healing Waters: 3 Fascinating articles from Evelyn Lim about positive affirmations, intelligently written.

Humor blog, Ouch Outrageous Obnoxious And Odd: The latest updates from my friend, Christoph, who is one funny writer with a skewed view about today's pop culture. He will keep you laughing - and it's all true! :)

OK, back to the salt mines to get caught up with the other blogs! Thanks for visiting!

Happy, Healthy Children : How to Avoid Childhood Obesity, Attention Deficit and Boredom

Happy, Healthy Children : How to Avoid Childhood Obesity, Attention Deficit and Boredom: "The nature of childhood has greatly changed in the past 20 years. A sudden rise in childhood obesity, diabetes, and Attention Deficit plagues America. I have noticed a remarkable trend in the way we raise children as well."

By Delores Monet @ Hubpages

From Denny: Here is a short good resource article, featured over at my healing blog, The Healing Waters, from a friend over at HubPages who has 5 children herself! She has a number of excellent further reading links provided as well. Check it out.

Dishonor: Cheated Election Results in Iran

Photo by Shahram Sharif @ flickr

Dishonor: Cheated Election Results in Iran: "Current Iranian leaders move into a dangerous era: clerics may become an endangered species in Iran and political assassinations will become the order of the day if the will of the people continues to be suppressed."

By Denny Lyon @ HubPages

From Denny: Featuring this over at The Social Poets blog where I write about social issues as part of my Social Issues Poets (SIP) repertoire. If the post gets too long I turn it into an article and throw it up on HubPages.

Wrote this on Sunday as the people in Iran weighed heavily on my mind. My heart really goes out to them during this time. Just click on the title to take you to the article. It's a little long to put up on the blog. Thanks for visiting!

New Blog Look!

From Denny: Have spent the day fine-tuning the new blog template. It's just so much fun (not!) when you have to go back to the original sites and generate and install a new code for one thing: the original no longer fits in the new column, too large or too small, the Amazon store and the visitor counter and more. Simple to do but time-consuming. Hopefully, I've gotten all the details. My eyeballs look like a Halloween scary mask, all blood shot! :) (Hmmm... is this where I'm supposed to whine and whine some more...?)

Why did I decide to change the look? She must be crazy, you tell yourself silently in your own head. (You are right, BTW.) Actually, Himalman of Himalman's Weblog suggested I change my template. He even provided the link to a great template site.

After a couple of hours (remember there are 12 blogs now) of pouring over pages of great interesting templates for the Blogger platform, I downloaded a bunch of them, all excited to get started. One by one, none of them were accepted to upload to Blogger, even though all were compatible with my browser. Great... now what? Well, after studying the best for so long by then I realized I could do something close to the preferred templates - and set about redesigning the blogs by using Blogger's established templates.

Hope you enjoy the new look and find the navigation much easier! Thanks for visiting! And me? I'll be the guy at the drug store buying eye drops so I won't scare the neighborhood children...

Top 100 Blogs List

Photo by foxtongue @ flickr

From Denny: You know how it is as a blogger, post and ping, ping manually because Blogger doesn't allow embedding the automatic to all the web bots. So, of course, I'm over at the very popular and doing well Swedish site, Twingly, to ping them and re-visited this page of top 100 blogs. Thought you might enjoy taking a look too! Just click on the title link to take you to the page. Nope! I'm not listed there ... yet! ;)