A Mini Announcement and Posts of the Week

I'll be away for a few days with limited internet access until Sunday so if I'm not around visiting your blogs and not replying to comments (though I might get a few words in here and there), you'll know why. I have a couple of posts scheduled for tomorrow and Sunday.

Tomorrow's post is a little different - something of a joint effort with my dear pal, Jinsky of Napple Notes. She and I will be combining her fine poetry with a few of my photographs - a bit of a simul-posting. Head on over to Jinsky's blog right now to read her original, poetic announcement. As for this space.. please stay tuned!

And now on to the Posts of the Week...

The icon/award to the left here is yours for the taking if your blog post has been named as a Post of the Week - either as top post or as a runner up, today or in past weeks.

This week's top post is a tie and goes to:

Just Words
by Daryl
at Out And About in New York City

and

Wobbling
by Joanna
at The Fifty Factor

Other wonderful posts in no particular order are:

And Obviously Not From Wisconsin...
by Beth
at Be Yourself... Everyone Else is Taken

Masonic Temple
by Russell
at Iowa Grasslands

Violet Dawn
by Zuzana
at Life Through Reflections

I Will Follow
by Johanna
at Järnebrand

Salzburg
by Althea
at Althea's Travels

Recalculating
by Hilary
at Crazy as a Loom

Awaken
by Cabo
at Hey, Cabo

Dig My Dog
by Gary
at Gary's Third Pottery Blog

Reader's Choice

Recommended by Kevin:
Figure It Out Friday
by Tanya
at I'm Not Sure What I Want

Recommended Anonymously:
Sign Posts
by Daryl
at Out & About in New York City

Recommended Anonymously:
Clematis
by Erin
at The Tiny Leaf

Recommended by LadyFi:
I Heard the Song of a Train This Morning..
by Jenny
at Jenny Matlock .. Off On My Tangent

Recommended by LadyFi:
K for Kicking - a Ball
by Not Enough Hours
at Coffee Rings Everywhere

Please drop by their blogs for a visit and leave a kind comment if you have the time. Also, please feel free to add your own choices (for any blog except this one) for a specific blog post in the comments section below, where others can see them.

Thank you.

To Win the Sky

"The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore




"A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit." ~ Sarah Jessica Parker




"I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful."
~ Pete Hamill




"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
~ William Blake




“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” ~ Victor Hugo




“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.” ~ Frank A. Clark




"Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes." ~ Proverb




"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
~Henry David Thoreau




"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire."
~ Pamela Hansford Johnson