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Moon over Shinnecock Bay, Long Island, NY

How I added an Animation to this Blog.


This is how I did it. Maybe there is another way, but this worked for me.
I used AOL FTP space.
•I already had the GIF file in there & went to file manager & clicked on it so it would come up on my screen, then copied the address in my browser.
•I went to the posting screen(on Blogspot)
•I clicked on the HTML tab instead of Compose tab( top rt)
•I click on the Pic icon & add the image where it says URL (on RT)
a bunch of codes comes up, hit preview(under compose) to make sure it works.
•then I Published Post

Southampton Boathouse 2005

Philipsburg Manor
Tarrytown, NY

A walkway to the bay taken in the summer of 2005, Southampton NY. For more photos, visit;

Photographs & Memories Too

Father & son fishing on LI
in August 2005

Taken this past summer while walking along the shore. It was a foggy morning & in the distance I saw a father with his sons, fishing. I no longer get to witness moments like this with my own sons & their father.

Caroling Through J-LandCaroling Through J-Land http://journals.aol.com/fasttrack58/FootprintsintheSand/entries/2380

My Favorite is

Silent Night

Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child.
Holy infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Silent night, holy night,
Shepherds quake at the sight,
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavely hosts sing alleluia;
Christ the Saviour, is born!
Christ the Saviour, is born!

Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love's pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.

This is another repeat.
It is Rt.22, a restaurant in Armonk, NY.

Firefighting~Monday Photo Shoot
There was a fire 2 houses away from us, about a month ago.
It left an older man homeless. My son & his friends are volunteers
for a local fire dept. Here are a few photos I took.
The last photo is a collage of 3 different photos. I am not happy with it.
It seems out of balance.

Another favorite from my AOL journal, Photographs & Memories.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies,
husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
~Washington Irving

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the
place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us,
still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness,
and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~Washington Irving

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
~Erich Fromm

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
~Washington Irving

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am slowly moving in~

10 Things that make me happy~Check out what Donna(This and that and hockey :) created on my other Journal, with this photo. http://journals.aol.co.uk/mariebm56/PhotographsMemoriesToo/


I was "tagged" by Steven(sometimes)photoblog to post ten things that make me happy. Here it is:

1. Seeing my kids enjoying Life
2. Finding something great to photograph.
3 Being with my kids & family.
4 A gift from the heart
5 Summer
6 Sitting by the shore on a warm summer evening watching the sun go down.
7 Appreciating each season
8.Peace
9.Jland
10.Being loved

The tag part is to select five others and "tag" them to post similar on their blogs and Journals. I've selected you all(listed below) to post ten things that make you happy.

Jeannette•Welcome to my travels
Coy •Dancing in the Rain
MaryAnne•Inside the Gilded Cage
Donna•This and that, and hockey!
Nancy •Nancyluvspix

Please add your email address to the SUBSCRIBE ME! powered by Feedblitz.
I changed the service, not sure if this will be better.
Also Shelly from PRESTO SPEAKS suggested I use Bloglines.
When you sign on to Bloglines you can add all your favorite Journals & you will get alerts
when the Journals have entries, as I understand it..; )
I am new to all this, so I am learning as I go. Bloglines seems to be the easiest.
My firefox browser which I just upgraded has been giving me problems tonight.
It keeps freezing on me. I am hoping to just copy & paste this in with out giving me a problem.

Wicked skies over Shinnecock Bay, Long Island.
Summer of 2004

We woke up with a dusting of snow.
This photo was taken at the end of this past winter(Winter 2004-05).

I created snowflakes in Photoshop to frame the photo.

I had problems with Blogspot last night.
I could not view my journal.

Muscoot Farm in Somers NY

DONNA FROM D'S DESIGN @ http://journals.aol.com/mydsdesigns/DsDesigns/
CREATED ANOTHER DESIGN OUT OF ONE OF MY PHOTOS! UNFORTUNATELY THE ANIMATION IS NOT WORKING ON BLOGSPOT, BUT I STILL WANTED TO POST IT.
THANKS DONNA also @
http://journals.aol.com/nightmaremom/Thisandthatandhockey/

Another Fall Foto.......
This was taken in November, in Carmel, on my way up to Dover Plains, NY.

Photo taken in November 2005.

I have decided that my AOL Journal(US) & my webpages will stay private & may also be deleted soon.
AOL has ruined J-land by getting greedy.

A Portrait~in sepia tone

The Boathouse

In October we visited the Bronx Zoo's Butterfly Garden. I had captured many photos of butterflies in October at the zoo & out on LI .
It was amazing to see so many Monarch Butterflies all along Dune Rd.

:::My Rose:::

Another photo of Muscoot Farm in Somers.
This is taken from a back road of the farm. It was originally owned by the Hopkins Family & used as their summer estate & dairy farm from 1880 to 1924. The family moved to the farm in 1924 year-round & operated the dairy business.
In 1967 Westchester County acquired the property.
It's a neat place to visit. Has many of the original buildings with livestock & poultry typical of the 20 th century gentleman's farm.

Side of barn at Muscoot Farms in Somers, NY.

Trying different layouts till I find what I like. This is going to take me awhile to get used to.
This was taken in Tarrytown NY, Nov. 2005.

This is my first try with this Blog. I was having a problem with uploading the photo, so if you have a MAC computer, you need to go thru Firefox browser to add photos. AOL browser doesn't cut it...amongst other things...; )