Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Bette!

This blog was nominated on April 25, 2013 by Bette A. Stevens, Children’s Author, for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.

First of all, I would like to thank Bette A. Stevens of the blog 4writersandreaders for this gracious nomination. Please, check out her awesome literary blog.

The Very inspiring Blogger Award rules are as follows:

• Display the award on your blog
• Link back to the person who nominated you
• State 7 things about yourself
• Nominate 15 bloggers, link to them, and notify them about their nominations

Seven things about myself:

1. Where did visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country	Views
United States	74
United Kingdom	59
Netherlands	49
Australia	14
Canada	12
Tunisia	11
Germany	8
India	7
Malaysia	4
Singapore	3
New Zealand	3
Bahrain	3
Philippines	3

2. Where did visitors to my blog come from this week?

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	1,222
United Kingdom	414
Canada	238
Jamaica	131
Netherlands	121
Australia	102
France	88
India	87
Greece	72
Germany	69
Tunisia	59
Ireland	49
Italy	33
New Zealand	32
Indonesia	32
Singapore	30
Brazil	29
Sweden	28
Philippines	25
Spain	23
South Africa	22
Belgium	21
Bahrain	19
Saudi Arabia	18
Malta	16
Malaysia	15
Armenia	13
Israel	13
Finland	12
Poland	12
Switzerland	10
Japan	10
Denmark	10
Republic of Korea	9
United Arab Emirates	9
Portugal	9
Thailand	9
Lebanon	8
Romania	8
Argentina	7
Czech Republic	7
Hungary	7
Slovenia	7
Russian Federation	6
Norway	6
Turkey	6
Taiwan	6
Viet Nam	6
Pakistan	5
Luxembourg	5
Kenya	5
Cyprus	5
Venezuela	5

3. Which posts on my blog were most popular this week?

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		544
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		72
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		49
Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks Joe!		40
About		40
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		36
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		34
New Dutch king, coronation and opposition		30
Dutch princess’ father’s Argentine criminal indiction		30
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		29
Awards		28
Save Ireland’s forests		26
US singer David Rovics concert in England		25
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		25
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		25
Grasshopper warbler and black-necked grebes again		24
April, record number of visitors to this blog		24
Bumblebee, wheatears, and lizard		24
UAE princely hunters threaten Tanzanian people and wildlife		23
Scotland against bedroom tax		22
WordPress Family Award, thanks Ajaytao 2010 and oasien!		22

4. These services have been used most often to share posts on my site:

Name	Shares
Twitter	1520
Facebook	499
Press This	107
Tumblr	81
Pinterest	27
LinkedIn	26
StumbleUpon	20
Reddit	17
Digg	16
Email	12

5. These posts on my site got the most shares:

Title	Shares
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation	22
Noam Chomsky on Obama, Romney	19
Dutch war crimes in Indonesia, photos	14
Stop United States wolf killing	12
Monsanto kills monarch butterflies	10
Kemp’s ridley turtle saved in the USA	10
New mouse lemur species discoveries in Madagascar	9
Stop Monsanto corporate food power grab, petition	8
British anti-nuclear weapons demonstration	8
German Kentish plover in England	8
Two new lizard species discovered in Peru	8
Antarctic explorer Scott’s last letter published at last	8
British cuckoos’ Sahara spring migration	8
British government imposes more taxes on poor people	8
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl	8
Dinosaur age bird discovery	8
Northern light in Alaska, video	8
Joint Strike Fighter billion-dollar failure	8
Trophy hunting banned in Botswana and Zambia	8
Saudi fight for women’s rights	8
Saving Canadian turtles’ lives	8
Italian far Right money-laundering scandal	8

6. Which Gravatars were clicked most on my blog?

Clicks for all days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

gravatar.com/petrel41	85
gravatar.com/marinakanavaki	64
gravatar.com/fluxnews	23
gravatar.com/narhvalur	23
gravatar.com/edamib	20
gravatar.com/natycalinescu	19
gravatar.com/dragoscalinescu	18
gravatar.com/kotev1000	16
gravatar.com/clanmother	16
gravatar.com/metaretriever2	15
gravatar.com/waldotomosky	14
gravatar.com/gdartdesign	13
gravatar.com/magdalena36	13
gravatar.com/kingroar	11
gravatar.com/schtiel	11
gravatar.com/cindyknoke	11

7. Which English Wikipedia articles were clicked most on my blog?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_child_abuse_scandal	23
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk	20
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_H%C3%B6lderlin	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuwa_Plain_National_Park	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamad_bin_Jassim_bin_Jaber_Al_Thani	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Monday_Club	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone	11
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii?#Brothels	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilotheria_rajaei	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-tail	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa_Wehbe	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus_antiquus	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlyn%27s_monkey	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Teratorn	7
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect	7
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass	7

My fifteen nominees are:

1. Happy Kittens: World of opinions, cats, and love

2. Flowery Prose

3. dawnofthegreeks

4. ♥ One Thousand And One Illegal Dreams ♥ Sparkle & Love ♥

5. ON MY WAY…

6. Dr Bill Wooten

7. TayexSoyHermoso

8. everyphototunity

9. FAB.G.BLOG

10. Living and Lovin

11. “R”HubBlog

12. The Linden Chronicles

13. Serenity’s Musings

14. cancerkillingrecipe

15. antilandscaper

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My Zemanta working again

This is a dutch video about the Drents-Friese Wold national park.

The Drents-Friese Wold national park is beautiful. There will still one more post on my blog about it.

My Internet connection there worked.

However, my Zemanta did not work. With Zemanta, you can add extra links etc. to a blog post.

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WordPress Family Award, thanks Ajaytao 2010 and oasien!

Thank you, Ajaytao 2010, and thank you, oasien, for nominating Dear Kitty. Some blog for the WordPress Family Award!

Here is what the creator of the award had to say about it:

“This is an award for everyone who is part of the “Word Press Family” I start this award on the basis that the WordPress family has taken me in, and showed me love and a caring side only WordPress can. The way people take a second to be nice, to answer a question and not make things a competition amazes me here. I know I have been given many awards, but I wanted to leave my own legacy on here by creating my own award, as many have done before. This represents “Family” we never meet, but are there for us as family. It is my honour to start this award”.

The rules are as follows:

1. Display the award logo on your blog.

2. Link back to the person who nominated you.

3. Nominate 10 others you see as having an impact on your WordPress experience and family

4. Let your 10 Family members know you have awarded them

5. That is it. Just please pick 10 people who have taken you as a friend, and spread the love.

I do feel that WordPress has given me a new online “Family” and I am proud to nominate the following ten members of my family for this award:

1. Vicky Nanjappa

2. outdoorpictures

3. diGitaL heGeMon

4. Nature Mom

5. Zeebra Designs & Destinations

6. Mary Gilmartin

7. slicethelife

8. Il mio giornale di bordo

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10. Victor Rakmil Photography

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April, record number of visitors to this blog

Ever since December 2012, WordPress stats count not only the numbers of visits to blogs, but numbers of visitors as well.

Numbers of visitors are always lower than numbers of visits, as many visitors see more than one blog post or page.

So far, the record month for the number of visitors to Dear Kitty. Some blog was January 2013, with 11,221 visitors.

In April 2013, the month which is just finished, that record was broken: 11,904 visitors.

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Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks Joe!

Joe of Iamforchange’s Blog has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Most Influential Blogger Award. Thank you, Joe, for this kind gesture!

There were no further rules (except, I think, nominating other blogs, linking to them, and telling them about their nominations).

My nominees are:

1. Leave reality outside before entering! this is a world of fantasy!

2. Artsakh Liberty

3. Writings of Rascoe

4. Moorbey’z Blog

5. A Birder´s Blog

6. Playground

7. play.think.create

8. prehistoricworldofyajur

9. Fern Balch

10. Audreysmithnaturequest’s Blog

11. amatterofinstinct

12. The Bawi Bawarchi

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Best Moment Award, thanks Tazein, Shaun and Khalil!

RULES of the Best Moment Award:

Winners re-post this completely with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awards! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and, winners, notify them the great news!

• What makes a good acceptance speech?
  • Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way
  • Humour. Keep us entertained and smiling
  • Inspiration. Make your story touch our lives
• Get an idea from the great acceptance speeches, compiled in MomentMatters.com/Speech
• Display the award’s badge on your blog/website, downloadable in MomentMatters.com/Award

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

First, I would like to thank Tazein and Shaun and Khalil for nominating me for this award. Thank you so much, my dear blogging friends!

These kind nominations came just before Dear Kitty. Some blog reached the milestone of 200,000 visits ever since moving to WordPress. When I had to move my blog once again in December 2011, I never expected that (I had eight visits then, on my first WordPress day …). Thanks, all of you!

Finally, a bit of humour.

My nominees are:

1. aristonorganic

2. Blue Hyacinth Operetta

3. Vagabond Virginia

4. This Labyrinth I Roam!

5. Fit To Work: Poets Against Atos

6. Expressions of my life – An evolution of art

7. ramblingpainter

8. ~ Loredana Milu ~

9. pindanpost

10. orisphoto

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Shine On Award, thanks oasien and Tazein!

Oasien of the blog Chant d’oasien and Tazein of transcendingbordersblog have been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Shine On Award.

Thank you both so much for this, my dear blogger friends!

The rules of this award are:

Link back to the person (or people) who nominated you.
Add the award logo to your blog.
Share seven things about yourself.
Nominate 10 – 15 bloggers, and link to them, and tell them about their nomination.

Seven things about me:

1. I would like to be able to visit more blogs. But some bloggers who are so kind to, eg, “like” my blog posts have Gravatars without links to their blogs; or with links to an old blog site which does not work any more. So, please, update your Gravatar profiles!

2. Where did the visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country	Views
United States	76
United Kingdom	33
Jamaica	23
Australia	14
Italy	14
Germany	12
Tunisia	11
Canada	10
India	10
New Zealand	8
Netherlands	7
Sweden	6
Malaysia	5

3. Where did the visitors to my blog come from, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Country	Views
United States	67,632
United Kingdom	29,542
Canada	10,984
Netherlands	8,078
Greece	5,763
Australia	5,049
India	4,926
Romania	4,230
Germany	3,655
France	3,193
Jamaica	2,806
New Zealand	2,389
Sweden	2,275
Italy	2,165
Belgium	2,098
Spain	1,869
Philippines	1,732
Armenia	1,720
Singapore	1,618
Ireland	1,347
Indonesia	1,344
Bahrain	1,089
Saudi Arabia	1,054
Brazil	1,052
Tunisia	912
South Africa	910
Pakistan	900
Switzerland	893
Turkey	857
Japan	837
United Arab Emirates	774
Poland	764
Norway	741
Malaysia	726
Hong Kong	712
Thailand	711
Russian Federation	705
Portugal	681
Finland	670
Denmark	653
Mexico	617

4. Which blog posts (or pages) attracted most visits this month?

Top Posts for 30 days ending 2013-04-25 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		3,002
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		541
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		532
Dog, cat meat in Spanish meatballs?		351
Stop Monsanto corporate food power grab, petition		223
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		221
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		193
About		192
Ambergris treasure found in dead Texel whale		145
South Korean miniskirt ban		139
Fascist becomes Sunderland football manager		112

5. Which blog posts attracted most visits during the past three months?

Top Posts for 90 days ending 2013-04-25 (Summarized)

2013-01-25 to Today

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		8,228
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		836
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		686
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		638
About		563
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		541
Dog, cat meat in Spanish meatballs?		351
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		280
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		248
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		224
Stop Monsanto corporate food power grab, petition		223
French war in Mali war crimes		214
Ghanaian women’s forced prostitution in Bahrain		208
Awards		208
South Korean miniskirt ban		203
Monkeys ride capybara, photo		186

6. Which blog posts attracted most visits during the past year?

Top Posts for 365 days ending 2013-04-25 (Summarized)

2012-04-25 to Today

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		28,636
British Thatcher aide accused of child abuse		5,768
After 35 years, wounds of Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc still hurt		2,237
About		1,572
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		1,553
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		1,401
Thatcher’s Downing Street child abuse scandal		1,015
Long-tailed tits, owls, and flowers		867
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		836
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		778
New African monkey species discovered		742
Dinosaur discovery in France		691
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		686

7. WordPress writes:

These services have been used most often to share your posts on your site

Name	Shares
Twitter	1505
Facebook	495
Press This	107
Tumblr	80
Pinterest	26
LinkedIn	26
StumbleUpon	18
Digg	16
Reddit	15
Email	11

My nominees are:

1. Pmespeak’s Blog

2. Kaligrafi Nusantara

3. Pr. Samuel Lemos

4. Call Me Appetite’s Welt

5. Spread Information

6. Mysteries of the Wasteland

7. Clouds N Cups, Be With Us

8. Cindy Knoke

9. Reflections on Life Thus Far

10. talainsphotographyblog

11. On Genocide

12. Elizabeth Ayers

13. The Crafty Cook Nook

14. VERDE DESPERTAR

15. Nature Mom

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Liebster Award, thank you Tazein!

Tazein of transcendingbordersblog has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Liebster Award.

Thank you so much, my dear blogger friend!

The rules of the Liebster Award:

1. Add the award logo to your blog.
2. Say 11 things about yourself.
2. Answer the 11 questions by the person who nominated you.
3. Create 11 new questions.
4. Pass the award onto 11 other blogs, link to them, and let them know.

11 things about me:

1. I have many sources for my blog: including hundreds of RSS feeds, twitter subscriptions, eMail …
2. Where did visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country	Views
United States	82
Jamaica	38
United Kingdom	15
Canada	14
Australia	12
Sri Lanka	8
Tunisia	7
India	5
Netherlands	5
Indonesia	5
Thailand	4
Iraq	4
Mexico	3

3. Where did visitors to my blog come from this week?

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	1,400
United Kingdom	523
Canada	306
Jamaica	178
Australia	153
Tunisia	134
India	108
Netherlands	89
Greece	84
Sweden	76
Germany	69
France	58
Spain	44
New Zealand	43
Singapore	39
Armenia	39
Italy	38
Ireland	33
Indonesia	33
Philippines	27
Norway	27
Romania	25

4. Which blog posts attracted most visits this week?

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		501
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		115
Boston bomb horror, pretext for Islamophobic violence		91
Monsanto threatens food security, Internet petition		74
Irish anti-austerity victory		63
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		56
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		43
Best Moment Award, thanks supernova!		43
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		39
Workers shot in Greece for protesting unpaid wages		37
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		37
One Boston teenage terrorist, and everyone’s civil liberties		35
About		35

5. Which sites referred most to my blog this week?

Referrers for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		1,359
WordPress.com Reader		172
Google		148
2012indyinfo.com		127
mail.yahoo.com		62
google.co.uk		52
WordPress Dashboard		48
topix.com		30
Facebook		28
google.ca		25
google.co.in		17
Twitter		14
argylesock.wordpress.com		11

6. To which other sites did my blog refer most this week?

Clicks for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

URL	Clicks
en.wikipedia.org	30
r.zemanta.com	13
avaaz.org	10
secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_monsanto_nd4/?bHFhfab&v=24248	10
transcendingbordersblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/best-moment-award1.jpg	6
independent.co.uk	5
wildlifeextra.com	4
dailymail.co.uk	4
maps.google.com	3
bbc.co.uk	3
wsws.org	3
momentmatters.com	3
allaboutbirds.org	2
nature.com	2
planetsave.com/2013/04/06/face-sized-tarantula-spider-discovered-in-sri-lanka-already-threatened-with-extinction-from-deforestation/	2
www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061025.lampreyfossil.shtml	2
telegraph.co.uk	2
csmonitor.com	2

7. Which search terms did Internauts use most this week to find my site?

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Search	Views
iguana	23
sri lanka new spider	14
bahrain prostitution	8
watergate scandal	8
lady liuwa	8
prostitution in bahrain	6
austerity cartoon	6
bishop john francis scandal	5
new spider species	5
new spider species in sri lanka	5
new spider species 2013	5
poisonous caterpillars	5
dinosaur bones	5
caterpillars	5

8. Who commented most at my blog recently?

oasien		43
prayingforoneday		40
BeWithUs		22
narhvalur		22
2embracethelight		19
Clanmother		13

9. Which of my blog posts got most comments?

Post	Comments
Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks oasien!	40
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Shaun!	37
Marsh tits, parakeets, starlings and sanderlings	36
Awards	36
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl	32
Somali police rape woman, then jail her	29
Versatile Blogger Award, thanks tuttacronaca!	28
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Ina Helgiu!	27
175,000 visits at this blog	27
First godwits, redshank of 2013	27
Red fox den webcam	27

* Based on the 1000 most recent comments.

10. Some more WordPress statistics on comments at my blog:

Comments per month:	1,088
Total comments:	53,906
Most active recent day:	April 4, 2013
Most active time of day:	15:00

11. In my blog, there are now 1,069 posts in the category Women’s issues.

Here are Tazein’s 11 questions for me:

1-How many siblings, if any, do you have? One.

2-Do you love music? Yes, see here.

3-What is your most vivid childhood memory? Seeing redwings on a frozen meadow.

4-What helps you to relax? Watching birds.

5-Do you believe in good luck? Sometimes, I have it; sometimes I don’t

6-What is your favorite color? Red.

7-What is that one thing you feel strongly about? Having peace instead of wars.

8-Are you content with what you have? Yes.

9-Are you all holding jobs? Sort of.

10-Are you happy with your current life? Yes!

11-What is your biggest dream in life? To see birds in Svalbard.

My 11 new questions for my nominees are:

1. Have you ever seen a dinosaur in a museum?

2. If so, what species was it?

3. Which person, dead now, would you like to meet, if it would be possible?

4. Which person, dead now, would you not like to meet, even if it would be possible?

5. What is your favourite city?

6. What is your favourite area of natural beauty?

7. What is your favourite painting?

8. What is your favourite sculpture?

9. If you could travel in a spacecraft, to where in space would you like to go?

10. What is your favourite food?

11. What was/is your favourite subject at school?

My 11 nominees are:

1. antilandscaper

2.  the CITIZENS of FASHION

3. Cheeni Thoughts

4. shedreamsingreenblog

5. Kenya Birding

6. Denisa Aricescu Poezii

7. Viața Prin Ochi De Femeie

8. Keep or Pitch?

9. OnePointSafety

10. Micheline’s Blog ~ Art, music, books, history & current events

11. Afterburn

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200,000 visits to this blog

Ever since my blog had to move to WordPress in December 2011, WordPress statistics count the number of visits to Dear Kitty. Some blog.

Today, the counter passed the 200,000 visits mark.

I don’t know by whom this visit #200,000 was, as WordPress does not say that. However, all visitors are welcome, so it does not really matter!

So, some fireworks to celebrate visit #200,000.

This video says about itself:

How to fold the origami Fireworks

Designed by Yami Yamauchi.

Presented here by Jo Nakashima with permission of the creator.

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Best Moment Award, thanks supernova!

James, aka supernova, of Digging History blog has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Best Moment Award.

RULES of the Best Moment Award:

Winners re-post this completely with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awards! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and, winners, notify them the great news!

• What makes a good acceptance speech?
  • Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way
  • Humour. Keep us entertained and smiling
  • Inspiration. Make your story touch our lives
• Get an idea from the great acceptance speeches, compiled in MomentMatters.com/Speech
• Display the award’s badge on your blog/website, downloadable in MomentMatters.com/Award

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

First, I would like to thank Joe for nominating me for this award. Thank you so much, my dear blogging friend!

This kind nomination comes just before Dear Kitty. Some blog will reach the milestone of 200,000 visits. When I had to move my blog once again in December 2011, to WordPress, I never expected that. Thanks, all of you!

Finally, a bit of humour:

My nominees are:

1. *Eu…EI…Noi Doi…*

2. Scientia and Veritas

3. Vakbondsstrijd Vecht voor je recht

4. Kristen Mazzola

5. A Caffeinated Brunette

6. chinatripping

7. Live2EatEat2Live Blog

8. ChasingART

9. naturestimeline

10. Maxima

11. Noir

12. The eternal solitude of the restless Mind

13. Chicks With Ticks…

14. Common Sense in an uncommon world

15. Chasing The Perfect Moment

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