My 500th post and an Award!

I had a very nice way to start my day today! Somebody wrote me, I made someones day - I almost cannot believe it - and I got an award for it! :)

Some months ago I met in this big world of blogs a great photographer friend, Barbara Gordon. She is living at the West Coast, there where people sing, there is never raining....is that right, Barbara? :)

http://barbaragordonphotographyblog.blogspot.com

awarded me with this wonderful and honoring award....
YEAH!

Thank you so much Barbara - YOU made my day! I'm so honored to get this from such a nice person and a great photographer, like you.

I LOVE your work too!

And this is how it works...

1. Write a post with links to five blogs that make your day.
2. Acknowledge the post of the award giver.
3. Display the You Make My Day Award logo.
4. Tell the award winners that they have won by commenting on their blogs or emailing them the news.

OK, it's easy enough, right? :)


And here are the 5 blogs that made MY day:

http://chunkymountains.blogspot.com
to my good friend Michele, the Rocky Mountain Girl in Canada

http://dianealdred.com
Diane with her beautiful blog about her tasteful handmade book covers

http://juka14.blogspot.com
She has a great travel blog with excellent photography

http://bluedelphy.blogspot.com
Delphy and his blog "Sad Smile". But a smile is not always only a "sad" smile, right?

http://laughtatvids.blogspot.com
Mark's blog and some of his funny videos made me laugh

In between a nice award

WHAT A WONDERFUL AWARD !

I got this award today from Michele, the very talented Rocky Mountain Girl in Canada. She is a big talent doing stunning and great photography, very nice drawings and catching the biggest fishes of course! :-)

Thank you so much Michele for this award, I'm very excited and honored and it means a lot to me, to get this from a such a warmhearted person like you. You made my day!


THE AWARD GOES TO:

Anna at http://myonlyphoto.blogspot.com
she is the expert in wildlife photos, big spiders or small ones or they can be also bigger animals, like elephants...check it out.

Rick at http://ateveningfall.blogspot.com
for his outstanding lightning photos and beautiful waterfall pictures.

Gale at http://galerainwater.com/blog
for me he is the BEST nature photographer ever - after Ansel Adams!

kmf99 http://katchphoto.blogspot.com
He is my newest discovery with nice photos from Dubai - I have recognized so many places from my own travels in Dubai and Oman.



CONGRATULATIONS to you all - and there are more bloggers who deserve this award, I know, but next time I will choose YOU, o.k.? :)

Another Award !!!

Thank you sooooooooooooooo much Barbara, I'm so flattered and honored to get another award from you!

YOU really MADE MY DAY!!! :-))

And the AWARD goes to:

This Award is created by The Love Blog from Barbara Doduk at

http://iamlove.blogspot.com

I’m happy to announce this award to my fellow bloggers below. Nominate as many or as few as you feel need to.

The award goes to:

http://dreamandfeel.blogspot.com Mary’s Blog: “Dream and Feel - Traeumen und Fuehlen” is most written in German but I can feel the LOVE for blogging in every written word from her and in her great photography.You really spread the LOVE, Mary!

http://www.georgianabuta.com/ Reggina tells about her blog: “Being myself is my favorite hobby”. Most posts are written in Rumanian language, but her pictures don’t need any translations, they speak an international language. She spreads the LOVE!

http://mybootsnme.blogspot.com/ Karen and her beautiful and interesting travel blog deserve this award very much. It’s not only the love for traveling what I can feel in her blog, it’s also her big love for photography that she shows in every of her great documentation pictures of her travel – just now she is in Granada, Nicaragua. She spreads the LOVE with living her passion for travels.

http://therightblue.com/ This is one of the best underwater photography blog I ever have seen. B.N. Sullivan and his outstanding work in photography deserve this award very much. I can feel the LOVE for blogging in his whole work in every post I’m reading. Thanks Bob!

http://karolineswednesdaychild.blogspot.com/ Karoline, from “Karoline in the morning” is my absolute favorite blog friend! Go and see and read – and you will know what I’m talking about. Her wonderful mind and her great talent to write in outstanding posts, combined with perfect photography, makes me come back to her blog, every day! You deserve this award, because YOU are spreading the LOVE every day!

http://titaniastarlight.blogspot.com/ Twanyia, from “Finding Life’s Enchantment” is a very special person for me. She is living the LOVE in person and with every post she writes, she is spreading the LOVE to the blog world – you can feel it! Please check out her blog and feel the love too.

Some new AWARDS in the meantime...

I got this award from Bob and his blog "Blackholes and Astrostuff", http://blackholesandastrostuff.blogspot.com THANK YOU so much, Bob!





This blog has been awarded The Spreader of Love Award created by The Love Blog, for an outstanding demonstration of blogging love. I like the idea behind this award. THANK YOU so much Barbara.


I will post about this awards in the next few days and will give them proudly to other fellow blogger friends of mine. Please be patience, folks...... I'll be back soon :-))

Please visit in the mean time the blogs of this two GREAT bloggers!

I got this wonderful award!

Today I got this wonderful award from Tatiana by Totally-Useless.com

Thank you so much Tatiana for this great honor and your wonderful words about me and my photography at your blog. You made my day!!!

I will pass on this award to some of my blogger friends listed below, because I think their blog is wonderful, great, beautiful and outstanding and I enjoy to read it every day per RSS feed.

And the award goes to:

http://mygpscameraphone.com
A perfect made blog in word and pictures!


http://jenty-mylifeinpics.blogspot.com
I love to see Jenty's beautiful photography blog every day!


http://vlavagphoto.blogspot.com
He brings a wonderful place on earth closer to the world with his excellent photographs!


http://chunkymountains.blogspot.com
Michele, the Rocky Mountains girl and her blog with beautiful nature photos. I love to read her blog every day! She deserve this award very much!

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Congratulations to you all my friends and thanks again to Tatiana for this wonderful gift. :-)

The party is over....

I'm glad I made it trough all these awards and tagging and it seems, everything is now back to "normal blog life" again.

Please NO awards anymore - let me breath again! :-)

You Make Me Smile - Award

It seems that it’s raining awards on my Blog for the last few weeks…and now another.

Thank you so much for this new award, Titania. YOU made ME smile often too!

People get these awards for being:

* clever,

* charming,

* fun,

* hilarious,

* ridiculous,

* entertaining,

* satirical,

* sweet

And the list is open-ended. I’m sure you will find more good reasons to smile visiting all the great blogs!

I’m supposed to give this award to 5 other people who really made me smile reading their blogs. I’m proud to nominate:

http://mrsnesbittsplace.blogspot.com

http://crpitt.blogspot.com

http://julianbennett.blogspot.com

http://morebabies.blogspot.com

http://www.sarcasmabounds.blogspot.com

Please visit all these bloggers to see what I’m talking about – and I’m sure you will be leaving their blog with a big smile on your face!

Floating....

A leaf floating on the water in sunset....




BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:

"You make me Smile"

and

"Tell me more about yourself"

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Yesterday it was really my day! :-)


The wonderful and lovely Titania at


Finding Life's Enchantment
http://titaniastarlight.blogspot.com

sent me a message telling me that she awarded my blog with the
"You make me smile" award - and now I'm smiling about that, Titania - It's a big honor to get this award from you.
Thank you so much, I will post more about this in the coming days and I will forward it to five other fellow bloggers.

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And my second surprise of the day came from a person who I admire very much for her work in writing from the first second I have met her and her blog. She is a excellent and experienced writer and a great and wonderful person:

Charlotte R Dixon at Word Strumpet
http://www.wordstrumpet.typepad.com/word_strumpet

tagged me with the question:

"What You don't Know about Me"

I am supposed to write 8 points within this theme about myself.

Sometimes, I feel I still don't know everything about myself, either, but I will try :-)