[ValerieUSA]

*LOL* You didn't know what I look like before now?
I really want to sell landscape pics.... the pics of me are a distraction.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi all! Mama_Bear will be posting the ping list on Wednesday. It was great posting the welcome graphic and helping Amy with the ping list yesterday and today. Thanks everyone for being here.

Graphic by MamaBear

~The Swans ~

Gliding unhurried o'er glossy calm lake,
Her six little cygnets close in her wake,
The Queen of the Water with regal disdain
Silently paddles around her domain ;
With careless abandon she fluffs up her gown
Of pristine white feathers and softest of down...
Then with hardly a glance at the noisy brown teal
She sails on majestically.. flicking her tail.

There isn't another nearby to compare
To her stately progression and unhurried air;
The frog on the lilypad hastily dives
To escape the notice of her piercing eyes -
When she makes a full curtsey exposing her tail
And emerges again with a dead water snail.

Her retinue follow - all bobbing below -
Then grandly once more in procession they go.
I could watch them forever as silently they
Float over the water the rest of the day...
But the blue of the sky makes the water shine bright
And in mirrored reflection they swim out of sight.

By Ella Render

[TexasCowboy]

"the pics of me are a distraction."

Well, I gotta admit, it distracted me !

I rarely look at profile pages.
I can see that I need to start, though!