Category: Blogging


My Blog’s 10 year Anniversary /Dec 4

Filed under: Alice, Blogging, Family, Lady, Leisure, Man, Marland, Marland & Alice, People, travel photography, WordPress — 9 Comments
December 6, 2017

2,476 Posts with 851 followers, and the most visited post being the  Bengali Village Girl .  I appreciate all the support I have felt. I attempted to give you a window into my life through the photos! I think I achieved the goal I had for this blog.  I haven’t posted something every day, as I did for he first years.  I have learned a lot from many other bloggers. I appreciate all the comments many of you have made over the years. One thing I would like to improve on, would be the captions for the daily posts, and possibly adding a quote or poem to the photos. I have rarely, if ever had a post without a photo, and it will likely stay that way! Enjoy the next 10 years! 🙂

I thought this would be an appropriate photo, since my wife has faithfully walked by my side, supporting me as I take photos, and blog!! Including walking together on the Highline Trail, near Logan pass in Glacier National Park, Montana this past summer!!

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Versatile Blogger Award

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May 1, 2017

Dear Blogger friends, Susan nominated me for Versatile Blogger award! Here is a link to her blog:   https://rhythminlife.net/2017/05/01/the-rose/

Susan, I am honored to have been chosen. I have so many blogs I follow, I don’t know where to start in nominating any of them for the Versatile Blogger award.

Some facts about me:

  1. I was born and raised in Kalona, Iowa, and then going on to Harrisonburg, Virginia for college studies.
  2. Met my wife there, and we were married between my 3rd year of college, and my 4th year (Internship in Medical Technology).
  3. Worked for 8.5 years in the Immunopathology Lab at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics before taking a position as School Principal in Northwestern Ontario.
  4. While in Ontario, I acquired my private pilots license and flew some 440 hours (Most of the landings on lakes with a Luscombe) before moving to Ohio in 1992.
  5. I spent 8.5 years in Bangladesh doing member care for several families
  6. I have knitted 3 sweaters, love crossword puzzles, chess, hiking, travel and photography.
  7. Have a lovely wife, two sons, and three grandsons, who are teenagers.
  8. Bengali curries are at the top of my list of favorite foods.
  9. I do remember when the hula hoop was invented, and actually collected a blood specimen from the inventor for analysis, when he was in the hospital!
  10. I learned to use the “slide rule” which was made obsolete with the invention of the calculator.
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Early Morning Solitude

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February 3, 2017

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Plates Clean and Ready for Use

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February 2, 2017

via Daily Prompt: Clean

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As I mentioned in a previous blog, these are some of the melmac plates my mother bought with each of our initials on them. She has given us all our plate, but had some left with “F” initial because of her name, Fannie!  This is a table she had set for us when we visited her in Florida in January. She is 93 years old and going strong!

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Photo Challenge: Shine

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October 21, 2016

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Sun behind the tower at the Stone Castle Hotel in Branson, Missouri.

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The Road Ahead of Us – 2016

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January 1, 2016

Happy New Year to all my followers! Thanks for your interest in my blog.

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My Name

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January 6, 2015

To my former followers I hope you aren’t confused! 🙂  I am enrolled in WP’s blogging101 and this assignment was to change the Title and tagline of my blog! Have a great day!

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