Photo LinkLove

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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain

George would not be pleased.

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From Boston to Gilligan’s Island here are some photos of skylines taken in the past few years.  Click on the photos to expand the view.  Music is also available.

Every once in awhile it makes sense to me to throw things up in the air and see what happens next.  I was finding it increasingly difficult to blog and so Virginia Breeze ended up on the cutting room floor.

But there were some things in it worth saving and when I found a new theme a plan took shape to combine  blogs.   The theme is called Basic Simplicity and it allows someone with basic skills to create a very nice theme.  The support is very good too.

I was able go to Appearance/Edit Basic Simplicity and work with the theme colors and fonts ( I have used this opportunity to increase font size because I am apparently going blind.  How are you doing in this category?).  It took about a minute to place a photo from Flickr in a large space that became the personalized header image.   It all seems so simple now but at the time it was not.   Here’s the address that made it so.

http://www.basicsimplicity.com/

Thanks to Michael Janzen for his help.  I have a much clearer idea about the things I can do blogging-wise at this point and hope to increase my activities.   One of the things I recently discovered is that my past efforts to talk about blogging were  supremely dull and largely useless.

But I did want to mention the Basic Simplicity theme and give a short explanation as to why Virginia Breeze was dumped after 2  1/2 years of posting.

And then there was the moment that I realized I could apply this new learning to http://myfotobuzz.com and create a synergistic effect. HA-HA. Ideas just explode around you when you throw things up in the air. Just be sure to NOT duplicate content or Grandpa Google will get upset.

Photo LinkLove has about a third of the readership of VB but that’s not really a problem.  It’s quality not quantity once again that is important and many of the keywords here have to do with poetry.  I can live with that.  And I hope new readers will grab the RSS feed that is displayed in several places.  This theme allows for widget placement in creative ways and in many different areas.

Notice the comment author  cloud just above the comment section.  If you would like to see your name above every comment section and not just the individual comment as provided by comment-luv then share your thoughts with us today!

I would like to thank for all this inspiration  my wife who doesn’t like me to say her name on the internet and Robin who doesn’t care for all of this forward motion.  Both of them are inspirations in my life.  Life is full of inspirations if we are open to them.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.  ~George Washington

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.  ~Thomas Jefferson

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It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.  ~Andrew Jackson

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Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.  ~Abraham Lincoln

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.  ~Harry S. Truman