Musketeers Group On JJJ 2

Bob Kleppin Lensmaster 

Bob is a very gifted craftsman, he is doing remarkable work on hardwood.

His cutting boards speak more then I can do, the artistic creativity, the beautiful look and the 100% functionality are my arguments to highly recommend Bob's wood work.

I confess that the Texas BBQ is full of surprises.

How to make GOOD Texas style BBQ

This lens used to be about my cutting boards. Didn't make sense to have two lenses with the same information. So, since this lens is called smokedbbqmeat (my pseudonym in another life) maybe I ought to make this lens into a BBQ lens. I spent six yea...

What is a Cutting Board?

The answer to these questions, and more are below. I started with a brief history and evolution of cutting boards (did you know that they were a prehistoric item?), introduce the three types of cutting boards (face grain, edge grain & end grain aka a...

Terry Lake Lensmaster 

Terry is an energetic person, involved in all activities, always project oriented.

She is a great Mom of 3 girls, Girl Scout volunteer, amateur photographer, amateur graphic artist, and an entrepreneur.

She is taking great pride on her family, motherhood, work, creativity, and she is a great task oriented person we can learn a lot from.

She is definitely a multi-task person.

Accessories for Travel

Whether it's vacation time in the summer, business meetings, or visiting relatives for the holidays, we have to travel to get there. Whether by car, plane or train, we will get where we need to go. To make life a little easier, we need accessories. L...

Family Vacations Ideas

I decided to come up with a list of vacation spots I would like our family to take. After you look over the list you may think I'm crazy (from a state fair to Hawaii!). These are places that I want to show/experience with my children. My husband & I...

LakeMom's Lensography

Hi, I'm Terry and I've been a Squidoo-er since October 2008. I'm still a newbie but I have discovered that Squidoo is awesome, wonderful and addictive. I have learned so much from other lenses. I hope to share a little of my passions wit...

My Top 10 Flowers/Plants

I love gardening! I love the satisfaction of flowers growing/blooming. It's comforting and refreshing. I have chosen the top 10 flowers or plants that I want in my ideal garden. I am currently growing some of these flowers and plants, but not in the...

Eugenia Hunt Lensmaster 

Jeanie is a very gifted writer. If you start to read a lens, you cannot drop it until you reach the last word.

She had 4 children and five grandchildren, but she adopted a 13 year old girl, who is now a beautiful 21 year old adult.
She did incredible work as a foster parent with the Children's Home Society.

Jeanie has a beautiful way with kids which is reflected in her writing.

Child Of My Heart (Part Three)

The night I first brought Audrey home, I promised, if she were still with me when she was grown, I would try to find her mother for her. I have kept every promise I have ever made to this little girl, save this one. And now she is grown. Where do...

Foster Teen Parenting

Nothing prepared me for fostering teens!! I was given nine weeks of training from the Children's Home Society before taking my first foster child. There was a great deal of information to digest in a short span of time. It left me with the innocent i...

Child Of My Heart (Part Two)

I believe God led Audrey to me. Though she is not mine genetically, she has grown to become my child through experience, sacrifice, hard work and more love than I could have imagined. We have shared a lifetime in ten short years and now we are shar...

Child Of My Heart (Part One)

Neither bone of my bone, Nor flesh of my flesh, But mine, just the same. You did not grow beneath my heart, Instead, you grew within it. On a brisk, January evening, she entered my life, a tiny, little thing with hair of corn silk, still reeling...

Lois Kackley Lensmaster 

Lois started as a journalist, but she is a gifted writer, very analytic spirit.

She is writing beautiful reviews and she loves Emily Dickinson Poetry.

She is a zealot of Women's Movement, and she has a beautiful fluidity on her writings.

Planning A Rocky Top Vacation

Want to plan a vacation during the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park? All through 2009, park rangers and other experts have pockets-full of special events and schedules to commemorate the occasion. Looking for lazy mountain...

Emily Dickinson The Less is More Poet

I sat in a small classroom at Salem College in North Carolina. It was the 1970s when the "Women's Movement," a term now so quaint, was off to the races. The first episode of Wonder Woman in March 1976 told anybody with doubts about acti...

Hello! I'm LoKackl - Welcome!

I'd like to introduce myself by saying Squidoo is a great platform to explore my favorite hobby: Look for the Heart of the Matter. What I like about Squidoo is it encourages me to be positive. An interest in "universal truths" takes me on a variety...

My Top 10 Morning Eye-Openers

I decided a long time ago that if I want to give myself the best chance for a great day, I'd have to make myself a few rules. The first rule: Be ahead of the sun. If only by a few minutes. Without that first Top 10 Morning Eye Opener, I'd have not b...

Marelisa Fabrega Lensmaster 

Marelisa is definitely an outside box thinker with science and business administration knowledge.

She is a good writer over many domains, the 100things can prove my point.

She is a free spirit, quick learner, a great Blogger, and a great communicator.

How to Be More Creative

Having the ability to come up with creative ideas can help you each and every day. Creativity is not the sole domain of the arts-whether it's painting, theater, music, architecture, dancing, literature, and so on-but is important in any field, from m...

Blog Business Plan: How to Create One

This is Part One of a four part series on creating a Blog Business Plan. The sections will roughly be the following: * Finding a Niche for Your Blog * Marketing Your Blog (Traffic Generation) * Monetizing Your Blog I'm going to start off with ways...

Creating Mind Maps: Everything You Need to Know

A mind map is a whole-brain method for generating and organizing ideas which is largely inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's approach to note-taking. The concept was brought into the mainstream by Tony Buzan and is based on patterns found in nature an...

Creating a Bucket List - 100 Things to do Before You Die

Set some time aside to create your life list and stop putting off your dreams for "someday". Take inspiration from the movie "The Bucket List" and ask yourself: If I had one year left to live, what would I be sure to do? Create a list of 1...

Rhonda Albom Lensmaster 

Rhonda is a happy homeschool Mom with 2 daughters living in New Zealand

She is always ready to embrace a new adventure, very creative, involved, and flexible, quick learner as well

She is also a great example of a free spirit thinking outside the box.

Traveling to New Zealand - What You Need To Know

The mention of New Zealand to some conjures up an image of an exotic paradise far, far away. To Australians, it is the land across the ditch, and to us it's just home. Depending on where you come from you may need to meet certain criteria if you want...

Free Homeschool Resources - Fun and Educational!

  Welcome to our world of homeschool fun. We take our job as parents and home educators seriously, but that doesn't mean we don't have fun! We hope our children will grow up to kind, caring, and well educated adults. We want them to look...

Why is it Always Winter? My Story by Pukeko (Rhonda Albom)

Born and raised in Chicago, I left in search of a more temperate climate. I landed in a small beach town south of San Francisco. Here I met my husband. With him came a ski cabin in Lake Tahoe and more snow. A few life changing events and we became Am...

Protecting Yourself and Your Kids in an Earthquake

I was motivated to write this after being in a 7.8 magnitude quake on July 15, 2009 - South Island, New Zealand I was relaxing nearly asleep, when suddenly the house began to shake. Just a bit at first, then a bit more before I realized - EARTHQUAKE!...

Rickie Reveley Lensmaster 

Richie is technical, and I am so happy to have other technical person on this little group.

Richie is doing reviews, affiliate marketing, SEO, PPC, he is knowledgeable and creative, and business oriented.

He is my friend in solidarity over Web 2.0 Applications, Twitter, and Squidoo addicted.

Twitter - How To Build and Happily Manage Your Followers

Once You've Been Using Twitter For A While it's Easy to Lose Track of Your Friends and Followers This can be mainly due to the large amounts of activity within your Twitter account... As luck would have it, there are hundreds of Twitter tools, serv...

SEOPressFormula Reviewed - Is This Your Personal Money Making Formula ?

Mark this date! November 6th (Noon central) 2008, it's the day that Brian Johnson releases SEOPressFormula. So what's the big deal, why all the fuss and who the heck is Brian Johnson? In this lens, I'm going to give you my most detailed review of S...

Sharing Your Identities in Squidoo With DandyID

"Modules are the building blocks of Squidoo, like widgets in blogs. Each module has certain settings you can change and customize to fit your lens (web page)", from Introduction to Squidoo Modules . The DandyID module for Squidoo pulls the online i...

Twitter for Beginners - A Simple Guide / Part 1

Over the past few months, I've received hundreds of questions on how to use Twitter. Based on these questions, I've assembled a "simple guide" in two parts for you, which I will update as needed. This is Part #1 Feel free to ask any questions at th...

Michaela Cernescu Coach. 

Well, I am not going to tell you about me.

I want to tell you about Mickey's Musketeers group.
I am proud of each member of this group, we have so many talents.

All the best for a bright future of all Musketeers!

Vatican City

The Vatican is not just a St Peter's Square, it is a City, a State as well, it is the symbol of Christianity, the spiritual center of the Christian Religion. St. Peter's Basilica is the temple of Christianity In the picture you have St. Peter's Basi...

Romanian Heritage Monasteries and Churches

The Romanian's Orthodox Monasteries and beautiful Churches created in 15th - 16th Century, are treasures as architectural style, and they have very special mural paintings. This is a continuation of my Architectural set. Some churches within the Mon...

Paris Early Gothic Conciergerie

My passion for traveling is not a secret, and for me Paris is like first love. From an incredible amount of Paris's attractions, I like the most Gothic Architecture, especially Early, High, and Rayonnant Gothic. I'll pick up one example of each of th...

Modern Architecture Santiago Calatrava

S. Calatrava is an internationally recognized Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer with offices in Zurich, Paris and Valencia. He has award winners buildings all over the world, including USA I am so happy to find out that C...

The Cathedral Saint John Divine New York

Saint John Divine is a Gothic Cathedral in the heart of Manhattan New York. A cathedral is nobility of expression and St. John Divine is no exception, it is a typical Gothic solid construction, and the line of design it expresses the spirit of worshi...

Joan Adams our Greeter 

Joan was our Greeter for both JJJ 1 and JJJ 2.

She is a great leader, an excellent lensmaster, she follows all of us with good advice, care, and grace.

She is a nice person who know to critique and to reward as well.

We all was very fortunate to work and learn from Joan. Coaching for me was a special experience and she was always available for an advise on request.

Hello, I'm Joan

Hello, I'm Joan! Welcome to my Squidoo World. Squidoo is special because of the community - I have met great friends here, and every day I learn something new! Squidoo is home to over a million lenses and continues to grow quickly. Squidoo is one of...

Pendleton Honors Squidoo and Ohme!

On September 8, 2009 the town of Pendleton honored Nancy Hellams aka Ohme with a proclamation -- the date was set aside to honor Nancy's promotion of the town of Pendleton via her Squidoo lenses! This was a huge surprise to Nancy and of course, she...

Crazy Funny Songs

Ok. I admit it! I love all kinds of music - from classical to country! But one of my favorite kinds of music is crazy, funny, off-the-wall songs! Sometimes I get one of these nutsy tunes running through my head and I seem to sing it all day long! ...

Halloween Songs

There is music for every holiday---and Halloween songs are no exception! Fall is a great time of year to spend some time learning new songs with your children! Sing on the way to school, activities, shopping. They may know more of these than you thin...

Legally Blind Golfer

When my husband was 42 years old, he was told he was legally blind. The doctors first thought the problem was retinitis pigmentosa. Later some doctors suggested macular degeneration. After many tests and many doctors, it is now determined that he ha...

HTML for Squidoo, CSS Tricks 

My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo

The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...

Super Advanced HTML Tips and Tricks to use on Squidoo

These html tricks for Squidoo are not really that super advanced. But they are super cool! Anyone can do this, Yes, you too! This lens would not be possible if it were not for the groundwork of other lenmasters: specifically, Magicality and N376 so t...

Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

Advanced CSS: Layout Tricks and Lab Experiments

Columns! Images! Colored boxes! This lens is my CSS sandbox, where I'm testing fancy layout tricks to make Squidoo lenses look great. As I figure out new CSS techniques, I'll share them with you, so you can use them on your lenses! This lens assumes...

Basic HTML for Squidoo

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this! You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

More HTML, CSS, and Squidoo help 

My Favorite Lenses about CSS and HTML

For ease of use and explanation of CSS and HTML, these are a few my favorite instructors on Squidoo. I have not listed them in any order. I do not favor one of them more than the others. Honest. Now, don't get me wrong. The lensmasters I mention here...

Squidoo CSS - my favorite code to spice up a lens

I've gathered my favorite Squidoo-code for later reference. I'm tired of trying to find that specific lens I used a css effect on and then having to go to edit-mode, copy paste, and then go back to the lens I was working on. This lens will he...

Easy HTML Code for Creative Lenses

I'm not one to go crazy adding color and "splash" to a page, but learning a little CSS and HTML code to spice up your content makes it unique and appealing to readers. Here I'll share some of the code tidbits that help me to make professional and app...

Make a Fancy Table of Contents

A clickable Table of Contents helps visitors navigate webpages. A table of contents also shows what's on a single webpage, which helps visitors decide whether your page is worth reading! A great table of contents within the first screen is a powe...

Graphics, Videos 

Free Web Graphics: Where to Get Them (Legally!)

With all the clip art, free web graphics, and stock photography sites out there, it's easy to make your lenses and webpages look great without breaking copyright! Some people think images posted on the web are up for grabs. They aren't, any...

Image and Video Mentor

Welcome! I'm Linda Martin, your Image and Video Mentor here at Squidoo. I love working with images and know you will too once you have the right software and a few simple instructions. This lens lists sites where you can find free images on the web....

How to Upload Images on Squidoo

Need help getting graphics onto Squidoo? Look no further! This easy Uploading Images Tutorial will help you dress up your Squidoo lenses. SHORTCUTS! Jump to... •  Squidoo Modules for Displaying Pictures •  Squidoo Photo Gallery Mo...

Aligning Graphics on Web Pages

Want to align an image on a web page? Need side-by-side graphics and text? Are you trying to align an image left, right or center? Or do you need to know how to position a caption under an image? This Image Tutorial Covers: How to Make an Image a C...

Squidoo Graphics For Your Lenses!

Here's some Squidoo Squid graphics to jazz up your lenses! I've dressed up Squidoo's squid logo in different ways to use as clipart. Feel free to use these or change them! All I ask is credit and a link. Other Squidoo lensmasters are doing this too:...

More Graphics, Colors, and Images-Video 

Photoshop Tutorial: 3D Photo Frame

Here's a Photoshop tutorial to add a 3D frame to a photograph so that it looks like a polaroid snapshot. For this 3D photo frames tutorial, you need Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements, or a graphics program that uses layers and includes effects li...

Animoto - Animoto is a FREE web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button.

With all that's possible with TV & film these days, how is it that we are still in the "next slide please" stone age of image presentation? This question prompted the guys at Animoto Productions, a bunch of TV/film producers and techies, to lock the...

Add Borders to Your Lens Photos on Squidoo

Would you like to jazz up the photos on your lenses? You can use borders on your images to give them much more impact and to help them "pop." You just need to use a little bit of simple HTML magic. I have included easy instructions for a variety of...

HTML Tips for Color

Color can be applied via HTML tags to fonts, borders and backgrounds. squidoo.com/basichtml and squidoo.com/advancedhtml show how to implement these colors. This lens however isn't going to show how the code is applied, but is a repository for the...

Clip Art Borders & Frames

This lens is dedicated to clip art borders, page borders, frame graphics, scrapbook borders, dividers and border clip art for blogs, web pages and Squidoo lenses. Clip art borders and picture frame borders are one of the top free clip art searches o...

Special Graphics 

GIMP FREE Photo Editing Software

GIMP is a free photo-editing tool similar to Adobe Photoshop, which can be used for anything from simple red-eye reduction, cropping and image size or file format changing to full professional photo retouching. GIMP was originally written for Linux,...

Tired Profile Picture? Cartoon Portrait Avatars are Hot!

This is my avatar history and review of cartoon portrait generator websites, and online avatar makers. The following shows my reviews and results. I've also included a listing of avatar makers, and profile or photo generators, that I have yet to...

GIMP Tutorial Series Guide - Free Coloring Pages and How To Make - Mosaic - Filmstrip Feature

November 1st 2008 UPDATE: Added GOColorFive.zip (Three more coloring pages to download). PREVIOUS Updates: ...The ZIP File has been fixed. You can download GOColorOne, GOColorTwo, GOColorThree, and/or GOColorFour. I had to remove all but Three-Four P...

Traffic, Etiquette  

Traffic From Image Searches

Google Images | Traffic and hits to your lens or web-page. Yahoo, MSN, and Google image searches are the best kept secret among experienced webmasters and SEO consultants for acquiring readers to internet locations around the web. Read on to find out...

Squidoo Tips: Building Web Traffic

Welcome to Part II of Greekgeek's Squidoo Tips: How To Get Your Lens Found!  This tutorial focuses on building web traffic with social networking. I'll also recommend some simple tools to improve your lens, so that visitors stick around...

How To Get Deep Links with RSS Feeds

There are a number of online syndication services that will display an RSS feed as a web page. These will typically contain deep-links to pages on to the originating website, which is a valuable source of backlinks. I originally wrote about thi...

The RSS Module - How to use RSS on Squidoo

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and that's just what it is. This lens discusses the RSS Module of Squidoo, the many, many ways that it can be utilized to add unique content to your lenses daily which could help boost your lens rank and keep...

Etiquette on Affiliate Marketing

I don't reinvent the wheel now, but having all etiquette rules on just one place is helpful especially for beginners. It is more, 2009 is a good year for Affiliate Marketing and for Internet Marketing in general. The competition is higher, but the...

Tools, Lens Promotion, Web 2.0 

How To Use Twitter

I really have fallen in love with Twitter. It is such a powerful social marketing tool and it is still far from reaching its full potential. In this lens I am going to share some of the knowledge that I have learned from reading about twitter and I...

Lens Promotion and Traffic Generating Strategies

One of the most often asked questions in the Squidu Forums is, "How do I get traffic to my lens?" The most obvious way to generate traffic to your lens is to make sure that it is search engine friendly. But that is a topic that deserves it...

Web 2.0 Resource Guide

I was thinking about a Web 2.0 Resource lens for a while. I know is boring but so useful to have all of them in just one place. For people that want to expend the power of free traffic via Web 2.0 Applications, this lens will save hours of research....

Browser Toolbar for Squidoo

This new browser toolbar from SquidUtils.com puts powerful tools at the finger tips of Lensmasters. Featuring quick links to all your Squidoo accounts, lenses and groups, and easy access to all the social functions, this toolbar will be indispensable...

Lensmaster Tools and Utilities

SQUIDUtils.com Utilities and Tools for the Expert Lensmaster SquidUtils is the place to find complementary utilities and tools for your Lenses on Squidoo. Here you can see all of your lenses and groups, with shortcuts to some of the most vital func...

More Lens Promotion and Internet Marketing 

WordPress Multi User

What is the difference between WordPress and WordPress MU as Blogging platforms? WordPress MU (WPMU) has all the functionality of WordPres platform, still Open Source but it is a platform which accept multi blogs and users. To do so WPMU is created as...

How To Create Squeeze Pages

 If you are reading this lens you have some interest in Internet Marketing and/or Affiliate Marketing and the words “squeeze page”, or “lead capture page”, or "you need a list" are familiar to you. Prior to any...

How To Add Amazon Widgets To Your Lens

Have you wished you could add one of those cool carousel widgets on your lens? Or a contextual product cloud? How about a big preview of your Amazon aStore? Well, now you can. With a little (actually BIG!) help of Clearspring, the widget network, an...

Submit URL: Squidoo Lens Promotion

On this page, you'll find some links to places you can submit your Squidoo lenses to so that you can get more web traffic to your lens. Google is usually the main source of traffic to my lenses, but to rank well in Google takes other websites linkin...

Home Schooling For Moms 

Lenses with Resources for Home Schooling
This is the major contribution of Rhonda Giant

Homeschool Fun - Learning Math

Math - Just the word used to make my daughter run and hide, now she loves it! What turned her around was finding the right resources for her learning style. Here you will link to over 25 free math webpages offering a variety of different math games,...

Free Homeschool Resources - Fun and Educational!

  Welcome to our world of homeschool fun. We take our job as parents and home educators seriously, but that doesn't mean we don't have fun! We hope our children will grow up to kind, caring, and well educated adults. We want them to look...

Homeschool Fun - Learning Geography

Our girls learn about geography through the eyes of other children all around the world. Through postcard trading, pen pals and Flat Stanely, our children have developed quite a passion for geography. We also love to travel and to learn about new pl...

Science for Kids - A List of Free Resources for Teaching Science for Homeschool and K-12

We love doing science with kids! Learning science and doing science experiment is our families favorite homeschool topic. When dad's a rocket scientist and mom's a rocket mom, what do you expect. (Yes the "Rocket mom" comment was a...

On Homeschooling - My Homeschool Lensography by Pukeko

We are one of those families who have always home educated our children. We do it for so many reasons, with lifestyle rising to the top of our list. More importantly, we stick with it because we like the people our girls are growing up to be. Squido...

History Lessons For All 

Learning from our History will make us build a better future!

Proud American Symbols

This is a tribute to the American symbols that unite us all and represent the love and proud history of our country. "Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, February...

WallBuilders - Keeping American History Alive

O nce in a while we run across something that is so great you just have to share. This is how I feel about WallBuilders. WallBuilders is an organization that is dedicated to presenting America's forgotten history and heroes. It is a place of truth....

American Civil War Part II

In any war the entire military has a big role, but the heavy part is on the back of the soldiers that fight the war. American Civil War is not different. Reading a lot, I was amaze to find out that sometime, not always, but sometimes the fighters wer...

American Civil War Part I

Since I have been in States, I was fascinated with the History of my new country. I read a lot, I created notes, I tried to correlate facts, I had an open mind for political and social implications, and I tried to understand the History of the great...

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan is an American success story. From modest beginnings in a small midwestern town to a distinguished career in films and television, he lived the American dream; as governor of California and as the centurys most popular president, he emb...

Twitter All The Way 

Twitter is the fastest growing Web 2.0 Application,
we love and hate!

Twitter for Beginners - A Simple Guide / Part 2

Over the past few months, I've received hundreds of questions on how to use Twitter. Based on these questions, I've assembled a "simple guide" in two parts for you, which I will update as needed. This is Part #2. If you missed Part 1, catch up here...

Twitter for Beginners - A Simple Guide / Part 1

Over the past few months, I've received hundreds of questions on how to use Twitter. Based on these questions, I've assembled a "simple guide" in two parts for you, which I will update as needed. This is Part #1 Feel free to ask any questions at th...

Twitter - How To Build and Happily Manage Your Followers

Once You've Been Using Twitter For A While it's Easy to Lose Track of Your Friends and Followers This can be mainly due to the large amounts of activity within your Twitter account... As luck would have it, there are hundreds of Twitter tools, serv...

7 Auto-follow Tools for Twitter Marketing

Twitter marketing isn't anything new, but tools are hurling Twitter use to higher and higher levels. This Squidoo lens isn't about how you should interact with Twitter members but rather how to get hundreds or thousands of followers.

Twitter For Internet Marketing

Twitter and Internet Marketing if you've ever been in the internet marketing industry even for a short span of time, you must certainly have heard of Twitter and the various ways in which people use it for making profits. It is a wonderful way of ear...

Family Values 

Do you think we still have family values? I think we still have them, read the following lenses... and let me know!

Walking On Eggshells

Many parents with adult sons and daughters will have spoken or at least thought the words, "walking on eggshells." That's because as the delicate relationships between parents and children change as a dependent child grows toward a gradually more res...

Life In My Grandmother's Time

This lens includes my own personal opinions. It is based on my memories and times shared with my grandmother, when I was a child, growing up in Pendleton, South Carolina. My grandmother, Mary Grace Martin Ledbetter, born September 11, 1896, lived wi...

Echoes Of Reminiscence

The next time you pass an old farm house with its blackened boards and paneless windows, stop for just a moment. Take time to reminisce about the people who once may have lived there. Consider the stories they could tell you of the memories filling...

Family Sculpture

The day was filled with electricity as we ascended the steps and entered the sanctuary of the beautiful, old stone church. Our lives were about to embark on an adventure that would change each of us forever. We entered those walls as individual liv...

The Wisdom Of Children

Have you ever considered the vast wisdom in the innocence of a child's thoughts? At fifty-eight years old, I realized recently, I have been raising children, in some semblance, for forty-eight years. That is a long time! When I look back over the...

Traveling with Andy 

Traveling with Andy is a joy. He is an excellent Photographer, he loves to travel... and he transmits great info, and deep knowledge on his lenses.

Pyramids of Mexico

Mexico is a fascinating country, with a huge variety of cultural things to see and do and an amazing history. There are a lot of ancient ruins in a good state of repair, some set in wonderful jungle settings. Here is a review of a cultural tour of...

Tuscany, Italy: Beautiful Countryside, Art, History and Wine

Tuscany is beautiful part of Italy; a favourite destination for British and American tourists. The many picturesque medieval hill towns are relatively close together, separated by beautiful countyside, rolling hills, olive groves and vineyards making...

The West Country, England (South West)

The ancient county of Wessex in Southwest England now consists of the counties of Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. Craggy coastlines and a very mild climate make this area a favourite tourist destination for British and overseas visitors. Here...

Most Beautiful Waterfalls: Iguacu in Brazil

Iguacu (or Iguazu) waterfalls are some of the most impressive and beautiful in the world, not the biggest, widest nor tallest waterfall, but 275 separate waterfalls spread over a three-kilometre crescent between Argentina and Brazil. Most of the fall...

Safari and Wildlife Viewing

Here is a selection of articles and reviews of safari holidays and wildlife viewing vacations in various parts of the world: Africa (Namibia and Botswana), Borneo, Canada, USA and Asia... Lots of photographs, travel tips, advice and recommendations,...