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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2008

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm0Oavih5ks&feature=related

    This is one of my favorite songs.  Brings back some wonderful memories.  Drifitng away somewhere in this wonderful world.

     pic_884683001187830514.jpg picture by chemosabi1

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  • Paulette531
    Paulette531 Member Posts: 738
    edited July 2008
    I hope this works...on a trip to Mexico I decided to pay people for photographs rather than shop...so I paid each person $20.00 for a picture...these are very poor people and $20.00 can feed them and their family for quite awhile. It was awesome!Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, " mce_src="Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, Photobucket, " alt="" border="" hspace="" vspace="" width="" height="" align="" />
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  • Paulette531
    Paulette531 Member Posts: 738
    edited July 2008

    I must have screwed up...some of the pics posted double!

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2008

    Who can forget Sedona..???

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  • Paulette531
    Paulette531 Member Posts: 738
    edited July 2008

    I love, love, love Sedona! I have some pics from there myself! Gorgeous!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2008

    DSCN1720.jpg picture by chemosabi1

    I have been hearing on the news that Hurricane Bertha is growing in the Atlantic and heading towards Bermuda.  So I typed in Bermuda to try and get some lovely views of the ocean - instead I found this.  Definitely another Wonder of the world.  In pursuit of life, liberty, justice, and the American way.

    Would love to have seen fireworks going up all around the Statue of Liberty.  I bet that was cool.

    Socal:  Sedona is beautiful.  Another of many places I have never been.

    Paulette:  I loved your pictures and the idea about giving money to those folks.  It really touched my heart.  The pictures were worth a thousand words!  Just awesome.

    While I have time off from work - I plan on traveling to many places - in my mind anyways, so who knows where I will be by lunchtime?  I dont even know lol.

    Nicki

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2008

    It's been a while.....I know, but between not feeling well, going away for the weekend and trying to make sense of all the bad news regarding our precious sisters the last few days, I have been physically and mentally drained, as I'm sure we all are.  Let's make this thread some kind of therapy to take us away.

    Went to Stratford on Saturday, home of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.  We're really big on theatre in this household, with my daughter being a graduate and obtaining her degree from the Acting Conservatory at York University.

    Here's a couple shots...... 

     

     

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  • Paulette531
    Paulette531 Member Posts: 738
    edited July 2008

    Blue...the pics are awesome!

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2008

    Thanks Paulette.  It's a beautiful town with lots of character.  Lots of big starts started here.   William Shatner being one of them.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2008

    Blue..that is a lovely place...sooo peaceful

    Here is one I took at Mammoth Lakes, CA

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2008

    and another in Santa Fe

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  • Paulette531
    Paulette531 Member Posts: 738
    edited July 2008

    OMG...That Santa Fe sky is awesome!

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited July 2008

    WOW, the colors are amazing!  My dh returned Mon from a rafting trip down the Colorado in Utah.  the pics are jawdropping---but I don't know how to post.  Will enjoy all of ya'll's.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited July 2008

    Blue, glad to see you're back .. what a lovely town.

    SoCal - I love Mammoth ... was the place of my FIRST honeymoon!! 

    Iodine - Please post pics of the Utah trip!! My favorite place in the whole country.

    Here are a couple of pics from Monterey, CA.  (excuse the quality .. I scanned them in.)

     

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2008

    I used to live in Monterey!!

    Loved it!!

    Here is Copenhagen..this too is scanned, I took it in 1975

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2008

    And everyone knows where I took this!! same trip different country!!

               
     

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2008

    BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!

    There are a few places on my bucket list, I'd like to see.  Banff is one of them.  My SO has been there and has promised to take me.

     

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2008

    Me too...Glacier National Park is also one on my list

    I obviously did not take this wonderful shot

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2008

    Most of my pics are from the internet SoCal.  So, no worries.

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  • shokk
    shokk Member Posts: 1,763
    edited July 2008
    Just wanted to stop by this wonderful thread and tell Blue congrats for page 5...............thank you so much for taking the time to start the safe place for all of the photographers here at bc.org...........it's like taking a vacation without actually having to put gas in the car..............thanks again Blue for page number 5......your friend......Shokk (heaven knows I don't have many) Laughing
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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2008

    As Elvis would say........Thank ya, Thank ya very much.  

    Here ya go Shokk.  Six to start. 

     

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited July 2008

    Blue,

    Let me add my thanks for these 5 wonderful pages.

     Shokk is so right,  you have created such a wonderful,

    carefree and caring space. Thanks so much.

    Cherryl

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2008

    I have a busy week ahead (well actually a month if I take everything into consideration) so will post this tonight, just in case I don't get back here for a few days.

    I mentioned Rome a while back and the fact that I spent a week there, the last time I was there, but I didn't mention the main attraction.  I remember wearing shorts and a tank top because it was so hot, and having to run into nearby shops to buy a shawl to wrap around me, as they wouldn't let anyone in wearing shorts or a tank top.  Yep, you guessed it........The Vatican.

    There are just too many beautiful pictures of the interior, but I'm sure you've all heard of the Sistine Chapel.  Funny little blurb about this.  My son, who was about 10 years old at the time, very seriously looked at me and asked.....Mom, are we gonna go see the seventeenth chapel?  What a cutie pie he was.

    And then, of course, there's this.  I was so mezmerized with it's perfection, that tears starting pouring down my face, without my realizing it.  Michelangelo's "la pieta".  It looks so real....one could almost see the pulsing of the veins.


     I guess we Italians are good at a few things eh?

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  • shokk
    shokk Member Posts: 1,763
    edited July 2008

    Blue how beautiful............listen have a good week...........you have such wonderful taste that I am sure your daughters shower will be just beautiful.......check back in when you can........maybe this thread will reach page 10..........then we will really have something to celebrate........Shokk

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2008

    Blue, I saw the Pieta in two different settings...one in the Vatican and once at the New York's Worlds Fair in 1963 or 1964..I went both years..got pix in both settings too...wonderful, wonderful..

    Sharp contrast to some of his other sculptures I saw ( mostly in Florence)..which were rough and strong.. 

    The Sistine Chapel looks alot cleaner there than when we saw it in 1973..what an experience... 

    Michaelangelo was truly a genius.. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2008

    100_0815.jpg picture by chemosabi1

    Sunrise @ Martha's Vineyard.  Page #5? You are all too funny.  It sure it great though, seeing all the wonders of the world.

    Nicki

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  • seekingsupport
    seekingsupport Member Posts: 13
    edited July 2008

    Shokk, why are you so rude making fun of people who've never done anything to you, celebrating a thread turning over 100 pages?  Of course your exorcising friend Cheryll comes along (she must be "good" because she's a hospital chaplain right?) and chimes in with the ugliness that you all like to spew.  There are many people reading between the lines on this and the Hijack This Thread thread.  You don't need to be a MENSA member to see what you all are doing.  Your friend Nicki has really gone over the line with her accusations.  I sure hope the mods are taking a hard look at these threads.  What I don't understand is why you all, almost all of you WC girls, have left a ghost town behind in a forum that bc.org was so good to give you all to your own (which I'll never understand) and felt the need to start threads elsewhere.  The only thing left of value at that forum is the wonderful Aghan thread and it certainly doesn't need it's own forum.  It's confusing and I think the moderators should consider moving it to Moving Beyond with a sticky so it doesn't get lost and get rid of that Time To Circle The Wagons forum which is just another Moving Beyond forum that is wasteful and unnecessary.   It's rather telling when a sister posts on the I Sing, I Dream, I Love ... Anyway thread about a dear friend of hers who passed on from BC and nobody responds to her for 10 hours because you all are too busy spewing your meanness on other threads.  If you can't be here to be supportive then you should find another board that is more appropriate for the type of behavior you enjoy.  This of course does not refer to every person posting on the above mentioned threads but those people involved certainly know who I'm talking about. 

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  • notangelgal
    notangelgal Member Posts: 3
    edited July 2008

    What is the purpose of the above post?  I guess there is someone still crying about not being supported on a BC support site thus the name "seeking support."   Go back to your own little group that keeps shrinking and you have to make up names for people - why, because ugliness just doesn't pay off - not here or there. 

    If you think there is anything remotely supportive of a certain thread turning 100 pages that is a joke.   At least the circle supported women, go read the first of it.  It was created to offer support and to gather around and be there for those that needed support.  It was good, it was honest until a few arrived and it was destroyed.  The thread that just turned 100 pages - lots of pictures and waste of time. Who wants to go to the beach when you can travel the world- that is really the problem isn't it?

    Why is it that only certain people should post to a dear sister?  Did you post to the sister in the "I Sing, I Dream thread" - doubt it.  I know, you can't -

    Such anger and hatred towards some here - many of us have seen this before and it never seems to end, however, some angels, just can't stay away.   

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2008

    Well now, welcome seekingsupport.   I look forward to your vacation experience.  Feel free to contribute.  You won't find bugs or bug spray here.......only a good time.  Humour can be expressed in many ways and mccarthyism is long gone.  Fun is fun.  Some find humour in parodies and some find fun in making fun of those who do the parodies......and so the day destroys the night, night divides the day, and it starts all over again.  Enjoy!

    Notanangel, sound logical thinking on your part.

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  • notangelgal
    notangelgal Member Posts: 3
    edited July 2008

    Everyone -

    Just thought that you would all find it interesting that on a private site, a former member of this board, had posted this morning about her complications from her revision surgery and problems with the nipple in that regard.  The above person also was posting in the recon thread here at BCO, look up seekingsupport post here.  It clicks!!

    I'm just going to call it as it is - Charlene, Angel, who made you God that you can come here and tell people where to post?  You came on the Beach thread, under a different name than above, to tell certain people they could not post there.  Why is this board always quiet and peaceful until you arrive?.  If you want people to worship and praise you on the Beach thread fine, but that is exactly what you have complained about in so many other members of this board.  We  have lost lots of members of this board over past events and you were a big part of that and quite frankly I for one resent it and your constantly coming back under numerous names telling us where and what we can and can do. 

    I for one do NOT worship and praise you - leave that to the beach gals. 

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