Can You Find The Word In The Rocks? (And A Word To Dianne...Followed By An Award!)

My sweet bloggy buddy, Dianne, at the Deez Dayz blog, recently went to Knysna in her home land of South Africa, and she took this picture that you see below.

Dianne spelled out a word in the rocks along the rocky beach. Can you find it? If so, leave the answer in my comments section.



I'll give you a little quote as a "hint."

"Words have meaning and names have power." ~Author Unknown

I would also like to mention, that even though Dianne was born and raised in South Africa, as you are reading this post, she is now officially living in the United Kingdom. She and her lovely family will now be calling the United Kingdom home. So, "Hi, Dianne! Congratulations, sweet lady! I am SO excited for you, Hilmar, and Miss P. I look forward to hearing all about life in your new home, and one day visiting you in person, of course." ;)

I'm just saying.

"Where thou art-that-is Home." ~Emily Dickinson

Ag shame, my skattie!

Now, last but not least, I have received a special award from my bloggy friend Mari at the Mari's Morning Room blog.

It is the PROXIMITY award.



Isn't it pretty?

What this award encompasses is as follows:
“This blog invests and believes in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

Mari, thank you so much for thinking of me for this award. I really appreciate you, sweet friend!

Now, it's my turn to pass this award along to eight two bloggy friends. Which, is NO easy task, but I will. I have enjoyed getting to know all of my blogging friends this year, and I adore each and every one of them. But for this award, I would like to pass it to my two newest friends in Blog Land. But, just between you and me, if I am a regular at your place, please feel free to take this award too. Really, it's okay. Just take it. I want all of you to have it. Seriously. ;)

And like Mari, I am not going to tell you anything about these two lovely ladies, because I want you to go to their blogs and take a peek at them for yourselves.

So, without further ado, I am passing this award along to the following ladies:

Nikowa at Knowledge House Academy

Michelle at Lovin' Life

Nikowa and Michelle, I have really enjoyed getting to know both of you here in Blog Land, so please accept this award from me.

And to the rest of you, remember, take the award for yourself and stop by Lovin' Life and Knowledge House Academy and show both of these ladies some love!;)

(Not So ) Wordless Wednesday

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
~ Cindy Lou

You have all probably noticed that the look of my blog has changed again.
Well, this time it is going to stay this way for a while.

The very unique, beautiful, and completely one of a kind background that you see now was created especially for me by sweet bloggy friend, Dianne, from the Deez Dayz blog.

Everybody say, "Hi, Dianne!"



Dianne is one of the loveliest ladies that I have ever had the pleasure to meet.

For my birthday this year, she made this blog header of my name written in the sand on a beach in Sicily.



Sigh.

She recently took her adorable daughter, Phillipa, to their local zoo in South Africa, and she took a picture of these beautiful daisies.


(She knows I love daisies and the color blue, so she snapped this photo for me.)

Then she fashioned this blog header for me using one of the pictures that she took.



Isn't it beautiful?

Sigh.

I loved my previous blog headers all so much, that it was hard to let go of them, so I made a digital scrapbook page of all of them which you can see on my sidebar, but here is the picture (up close) so that you can see a little more of the details.



Another blogging buddy of mine named, Becky, told me about this amazing website called Scrapblog, and that is what I used to make the scrapbook style picture, as well as my new blog header. It is a fabulously free and fantastically fun website. You should rush over there immediately and make a new header for yourself.

I'm just saying.

Dianne designed this new blog layout to match the header that I created, and if you look closely at the blue daisies on each side of my blog....you will see that they are the same daisy that is in the picture she took for me at the zoo.

Sigh.

Isn't she clever?

Dianne, thank you so much for all the hard work that you put into making this beautiful new blog design for me, but even more than that, I want to thank you for your friendship. You are a very special lady to me and my family, and we are blessed to call you friend.

And in true Zsa Zsa form, please just let me say.......



"You are simply vonderful, dahlink! MWAH!" ;)

Ag shame.

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he (or she) knows that you are slightly cracked."
~ Bernard Meltzer