TUESDAY – Two Awards

Today I saw the first new robin of the season, all freckled and fledged, sitting in the lilac bush. I was approaching to fill the niger feeders, and s/he continued to sit, eyeing me, not sure what to make of me, and mother wasn’t around at the moment to pip out a warning. So the inexperienced newby let me approach to within a couple of feet. Finally, instinct must have kicked in and the youngster flew off, but I felt like I’d just been given the "Friendly Human Award."

And from fellow blogger and friend, Kat at Poetikat's Invisible Keepsakes, comes the blog award pictured here. I’m quite amazed by the checklist of items that this one acknowledges, and would be happy to think I offered up the merest fraction of any of them—so thank you Kat!

From Kat's blog:

1) The Blog manifests exemplary attitude, respecting the nuances that pervade amongst different cultures and beliefs
2) The Blog contents inspire; strives to encourage and offers solutions.
3) There is a clear purpose at the Blog; one that fosters a better understanding on Social, Political, Economic, the Arts, Culture, Sciences and Beliefs.
4) The Blog is refreshing and creative
5) The Blogger promotes friendship and positive thinking.

* Those of you who receive this award are required to do the following:
1) Create a post with a mention and link to the blogger who presented the Noblesse Oblige Award to you.
2) The award conditions must be displayed in the post.
3) Write a short article about what your blog has thus far achieved preferably citing one or more older post to support.
4) The blogger must present the Noblesse Oblige Award to blogs in concurrence with the award conditions.
5) The blogger must display the award at any location on their blog.

Okay, you know me, I'm going to jump right to the fun part: passing it on. I’m going to give you the link to a blog some will be familiar with, but those who are not will be delighted to discover: Beth at The Virtual Tea House. Beth’s blog is a wonderful well to drink from, and a good source of links and other delightful and challenging things she collects in her e-travels, plus her own wonderful poetry. Beth’s blog subtitle is “Engaging the spiritual in everyday life” and that is genuinely what it does.


Photo from Wikimedia Commons/Trisha

GETTING CAUGHT UP

Over the weekend I was tagged with a photo meme by Bobbie, and also received a Premio Dardos blog award from Sylvia and Kat. There are rules to passing on the award, but I have been picking up that there is a lot of award fatigue out there, so instead of passing it along to 10 people (five each) I’m only going to nominate one. (I really could passing this along to at least 50 people!). So, with many thanks to Kat and Sylvia, I am hereby giving this award to a blog I only discovered recently, but enjoy a whole lot – Here ya go Cloudia at Comfort Spiral.

Now, the photo meme from Bobbie is a Sixth Folder of Your Sixth File meme. In my photo file, that’s a folder called “Buddha.” When I first moved here to the lake, I saw that my breakwall had a kind of apron on one end, with a nice juniper bush. I immediately knew I wanted a Buddha statue there, to gaze out over the lake. I finally found one large enough to look right at a garden shop a few small towns over, and brought him to his new home. Technically, I guess he’s not actually THE Buddha, but a monk, but I don’t let that distinction bother me. People have asked me why I set him that way, when all I see from behind is his rather plain back, while his lovely serene face faces the lake. It just seemed better that way. This one is titled, "Buddha and Sailboats Returning" (click to enlarge)




I’m passing this tag along (without obligation) to someone who takes some very beautiful and intriguing photos –please do visit Donald Kinney’s San Francisco daily photo blog.