Blog Tour: Week-End Assignment

<<Weekend Assigment #57: Share some of your favorite Journals, Blogs and Web sites not on AOL Journals. Come on, we know you go off the school grounds from time to time. Tell us where you go. 'Cause we want to go, too. Even just one pick is fine (no more than five, though. Pick the best to share). Also, just in case this was a temptation, my site off AOL should not be one of your selections.

Extra credit: Find a link you think your mother might like. What is it? >>

I have't done a week-end assignment in awhile, but this one provides a terrific opportunity to share some other blogs I like.  Only five, John?

1.  Inscribed on the Forest Floor.  This is  one of the most beautiful and technically proficient photo journals I've encountered ~ striking photos of Yellowstone life.

2.  Blue Ridge Blog.  Another place I love, and another set of outrageous photos.

3.  Mainelife: because life's a beach.   You got it:  place and photos. 

4.  My Incentive.    Lovely, thoughtful writing; another set of perspectives on midlife.

5. daily kos: political analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.  Gotta keep up with politics ~ at least on occasion. 

Extra Credit:  I'll pay tribute to my recently deceased stepmother with this one.  She would have loved the Blackwater Eagle Cam and Osprey Cam and the associated Eagle Weblog.  One of the extraordinary things about my stepmother was how, upon falling in love with my father in her very late 60s, she leapt without hesitation from a desk job into a canoe.  She had lived a fairly placid, mostly urban, life, and had no prior aquaintance with the wild places of North America, but she didn't let her past history limit her in any way.  If she were still with us, she'd be checking on those chicks and eggs everyday.

By the way, some concern has been expressed that the osprey are spending a lot of time off their egg ~ perhaps they are inexperienced parents.  I've noticed that, too ~ in a number of the pictures, one or both of them seem to be looking at the egg in confusion.  If things settle down, they're going to be really baffled by what comes out of that egg!