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August 7, 2007 by Tricia

Surely by now you’ve been hearing all the buzz about Thoof?

Just in case you haven’t I’ll tell you about it. Thoof is a site where you can read interesting current news stories, blog posts, watch videos or look at photos that have been submitted by Thoof members. It’s a great way to keep track of what’s happening in the world and you might even discover some websites or new blogs to read by viewing stories on Thoof.

The more you visit Thoof the better Thoof gets to know what stories you like. Each time you click on a story that interests you Thoof remembers that you were interested in that type of topic so the next time you visit the site you’ll see stories that might suit your interests based on your past Thoof visiting history. In this way Thoof can become your very own personalized news website.

Membership in free and once you become a member you can submit interesting articles that you’ve written, or posts from your blog or other sites you’ve visited.

I’ve heard from other bloggers and they say that once they started submitting some of their posts to Thoof they started seeing an increase in traffic to their site. So you could say that Thoof is another way to promote your website!

Once you submit a story to Thoof you’ll have the option to add a ThoofRank badge to the article that you’ve just submitted. When you add the ThoofRank badge you’ll be able to see at a glance just how popular your story is on Thoof.

You might even say that the ThoofRank button could give you an idea as to how well you’ve written a story that grabbed the Thoof members attention.

I’m going to submit this post and then I’ll put a ThoofRank badge on this post to see how popular my story is on Thoof. It’ll also give you an idea of what the badge looks like and how it works once you see it.

Why not visit Thoof today and see if there are any stories that interest you. Also, don’t forget to submit one of your own riveting posts to the site and watch the visitors flock to your blog!

I can’t take a bad photo of this rose

August 6, 2007 by Tricia

This rose, Breath of Life, is so gorgeous that I don’t think it’s possible for me, or anyone for that matter to take a bad photo of it:

I’ve been growing this rose at the entrance to my backyard for the last 5 years and as I’ve said I don’t think a single one of my photos of this rose has ever not turned out well.

I suppose it’s a combination of the color and perhaps even where the rose is in my garden – lighting wise as we know those are often factors that make or break a photograph. I mean, I’ve got some lovely red flowers that up until I got my SLR camera I had to struggle to take a decent photo of just because the color red can be so difficult to photograph.

The rose looks more pink than coral in this photo but for the most part it’s usually a very light coral. I love the rose! I also love having such a spectacular rose at the start of my garden as it hints at what visitors might encounter.

Do you garden or do you enjoy taking photos? Have you found that some colors are easier to photograph than others?

If you’d like to learn more about growing lovely roses like this one:

Taylor’s Guide to Roses: How to Select abd Grow 380 Roses, Including the New Hardy Ever-Blooming Varieties – Flexible Binding (Taylor’s Gardening Guides)

Or if you’d like to learn more about the art of photography:

Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography (Updated Edition)

Storm Watch – unrealistic movie

August 6, 2007 by Tricia

Last night we watched a movie about a hurricane hitting New York City. Well I say we watched, but I wasn’t feeling all that well so I had a nap in the middle of the movie! I saw the beginning and the end and unless something really remarkable happened in the middle I wasn’t all that impressed with the movie. I think it was called Storm Watch.

First, I can’t imagine NYC getting hit with such a forceful hurricane in the first place – not a direct hit anyway. I mean, even Toronto was hit back in the 50’s by a hurricane but it was the remnants of a very powerful one and it did a lot of damage. So yeah, tail end or side effects of a powerful hurricane but not a direct hit.

Watching the movies end and seeing all the damage and injured people made me think that all of the New York personal injury lawyers were about to get a lot of new business!

Did anyone see that movie? If you did, what did you think of it? Obviously I wasn’t the least bit impressed so I’m giving it a thumbs down.

Phlox and black eyed susan

August 5, 2007 by Tricia

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My white phlox is just beautiful this year. The flowers are perfect.

Did you know that Phlox David has a light scent too? We grow this right beside our patio – it’s lovely to look at and when we catch a little of it’s faint scent it’s nice too.

Do you grow phlox? It’s an easy plant to grow.

The black eyed susans grow right beside the phlox and it makes a lovely pairing when both plants are in bloom.

The phlox’ blooms will die off soon, but the black eyed susans will keep blooming pretty much until it starts to cool.

I’ve tried to pick a large variety of plants that bloom for either a long time, or rebloom several times through the season. I also have a lot of plants that bloom just in spring, just in summer and just in the fall so there’s always flowers around.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Everyone needs a friend

August 1, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Whenever I see this photo I always think of the lyrics to the song You’ve got a Friend by Carol King and James Taylor.

When you’re down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out my name,
And you know where ever I am
Ill come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And Ill be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You’ve got a friend.

That song is actually my husband and I’s song. We danced to it at our wedding. It suits us perfectly because we are best friends.

That poor monkey. Looks like he needs more than a stuffed toy.