I agree with this completely because I am so grateful for you, my web-friends! (Please click to enlarge.
As 2013 draws to a close, I want to express my gratitude to this wonderful wordpress community that I became a part of almost a year and a half ago.
Blogging is such a blast! I have formed important and meaningful friendships with intelligent, creative and interesting people from all over the world! People like you! Now when I travel, I have blogger friends in every country I visit. How cool is this?
I love to read and look at your blogs! They are the bulk of what I read these days and I am a prolific reader. Your blogs move me, crack me up, inform me, sometmes make me cry, and always impress me with your talent and creativity. Books have paled for me now that I am reading such fresh, different, and creative blogs, on a daily basis. Thank you for your posts, I so enjoy reading them.
I am grateful for all the awards you have honored me with. I deeply appreciate the thoughtfulness behind each one. I don’t pass them on because I cannot pick “favorite” blogs from all the blogs I follow. Please know that if I follow you, I think your blog is worthy of every award, and I hereby pass them all on to you, Blog of the Year, and every other one, on down the line. You are awarded each one.
I am so grateful for the encouragment, support and friendship I receive from so many wonderful bloggers. I would never have continued blogging, if it weren’t for the incredible supportive community I have become a part of here at wordpress. You rock!
I have gotten more serious about my photography hobby because of your steady encouragement. I even entered The Nature Conservancy’s, 2014 Calendar contest because a blogger suggested I should, and I made it to the final round which shocked the beejeezus out of me! I owe this to the encouragement I have received from you!
Thank you for a rocking 2013!
I greatly look forward to 2014!
May health, happiness and good cheer be yours this holiday and in the coming year.
Cheers to you and thank you!
I love that song. Taught it to my school kids and my grandchildren. 🙂 Your photos are spectacular as always. So glad we met up on WP. 🙂
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Some day, I suspect, we will bump into each other somewhere in distant paradise!! Until then, cheers to you my friend!
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Stranger things have happened, Cindy. 🙂
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Liebe Cindy das sind ja Traumhafte Blumen einfach wunderschön super fotografiert mit so wundervollen Blumen da kann ich nicht mithalten deine Blumen einfach umwerfend viele liebe Grüße Klaus
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Frohe Feiertage zu Ihnen mein guter Freund Klaus!
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Wonderful post as always/ Happy Holidays and many more good stories to tell!
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Happy Holidays Eunice!
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Right Back at you!
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I’ve just nominated you for Blog of the Year Award, 2013 🙂
http://sarahpotterwrites.com/2013/12/12/woot-ive-been-nominated-for-blog-of-the-year-award-2013/
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Oh so thoughtful and so appreciated! Thank you sincerely and cheers to you~
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Hello! Those ducks are amazing. Great pictures as usual. 😀
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I am honored that you think so! Grazi~
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Hi Cindy , these flower pictures and marvels ,beautiful photograph.Wishing you and yours a Christmas season of happiness and health ,Jalal
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Back to you and yours Jalal!
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Cindy! You are so well worth every success! Your photos are absolutely amazing and you always take time to say something kind, even if you surely are very busy. All the best to you!
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I feel the same about you and your blog is helping others with the courage you take to share! Kudos to you~
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Thank you so much!
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more awesome photos Cindy…congrats on making it to the final round of the photo contest! Don’t understand why you didn’t win!!! All the best to you and yours through out the holiday season and in 2014!
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I understand, the others were probably professional nature photographers, or if amateurs, they had a lot more experience. I am a retired shrink and a photographic newbie! I was stoked to make it to the final round! Happy Holidays to you and yours Heather and keep on clicking~
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Congrats on the calendar contest. Support and encouragement are powerful.
Happy holidays! LG x wendy
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So good to hear from you and see what’s what on your blog! Happy Holidays back at you!
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I hope you win–and i am not a bit surprised! Amazing how a person can’t see their talents…makes me worried that i can see mine..hehehe…
What a great post. If this is the heart of you–then that is the art of you. Plus birdeez are spectacu-licious in full size.
You are world class good, i think. 🙂
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You are a world-class sweetheart I am sure! Hugz to you my friend, and thank you~
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Thank you for the kind words for all of us! You bring the world to us through your photographs. Congratulations on the calendar contest! I look forward to more of your posts in 2014! Best wishes from a web friend!
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You are a wonderful web friend! Cheers to you~
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I love the colors from your photos and thank you for the marvel images you share with us! Also, congratiolations for your wonderful blog!
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Awwww…so nice! Thanks! I am so happy to know you here in blogdom~
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Thank you for your kindness, your enthusiasm, and for all your really beautiful photos!
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Thank you for these wonderful comments and cheers to you!
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Thank you Cindy, your comments in this post mirror my feelings for the wonderful WP community. Your posts are a stand-out in the blogosphere and I’m honoured to be part of your community.
I look forward to more amazing photos from you in 2014.
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And hopefully maybe 2015, I will be meeting you for a cup of tea, and Jack too of course! Thank you my friend~
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We would love that. It’s a date for whenever you come to Australia
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Thank You!
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It is my honor~
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Liebe Cindy einen schönen 3 Advent wünsche ich dir Klaus
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Das ist schon Klaus! Gluckliche Advent auf Sie!
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Good luck with the The Nature Conservancy’s Calendar Contest, Cindy!
加油!!!
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Your blog is so lovely and inspirational. You rock, Cindy!
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Visa versa x 2 to U!! Cheers~
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What a wonderful post Cindy and your photos are absolutely stunning. A big thank you to you and have a very happy festive season.
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Wishing the same to you and yours! Cheers to you~
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Woohoo – congrats I know your pics will be featured in the calendar…fingers crossed…toes crossed…eyes crossed…ouch that hurts…uncrossing the eyes because I know they will pick you!
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When I posted this I knew I didn’t make the calendar, but I was SO jazzed to make it to the final round! But if you keep your eyes crossed, I might make it for the next year!!! lol! Don’t do it! They might stick! Happy Friday to you my friend~
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Oh snap, you didn’t get picked? Well try another contest or create your own – your pics are absolutely gorgeous. Hope you are having a super Saturday!
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With friends like you, I win everyday!! Cheers to you~
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Thank you Cindy! I am so glad to have discovered your blog! What did I ever do before I found all these amazing bloggers on WordPress? Merry Christmas and Happy 2014!!
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Exactly, think how dull the stuff we read was!! LBB (Life Before Blogging)! No thanks!! Bloggers rock!
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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What a always lovely photos you make, love the ducks ! Have a great evening Cindy ! 🙂
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You too my friend! Happy weedend and cheers to you!
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Thanks to you Cindy, for the beauty you show us. Wishing you a merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas to you my friend~
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awe this is so cute and beautiful Cindy..very well captured really..thanks a lot for brining these to us with ur creative style 🙂
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Thank you for the appreciation & cheers to you~
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Cindy i will be looking at the posts that comment on your post.
Because they have good taste.and thank you for including me as a friend.
I may forget names but faces and places I really forget.
Because I am a visual person always looking at pictures and photoe.
Your photoes are a pleasure to my eyes.
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One of the reasons I anticipate going back to Australia so much is to meet you two wonderful people! Thank you Jack~
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You and Pauline I beleive would be an invincible team.
I will leave the arrangements to you and Pauline. Let her know your plans as I just go with the flow.Seasons greatings from Jack and Pauline.
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Deal! We are looking at traveling from Auz through the lesser seen parts of the South Pacific returning either to Auz or NZ. Once we know, Pauline will be the first to know. Would love to meet you two~
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Cindy, your blog is more than just a blog but a portal. I leave your blog feeling like a traveler (without the jet lag and the packing). Always something joyful, if not educational, that makes a pleasant trip. Thank you always for sharing your wonderful talent! Best wishes in the new year!
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This is such an eloquently written and lovely comment that makes me feel so honored! Thank you my wonderful friend! I am so pleased to know you & cheers to you and I am so glad you come with me on my adventures. You are great to travel with!
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magic!
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Danke freundlich!
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hello Cindy, your blog spells inspiration in so many ways. Please accept this link http://kintal.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/being-a-light-in-the-world-award/ Keep on radiating love, hope and peace ;D
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Awwww, I will keep doing it because I get to meet lovely people like you! Thank you sincerely!
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I am sharing some appreciation and recognition today
http://hunt4truth.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/beauty-all-around/
No requirements attached… Peace and joy is all
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Oh so thoughtful of you and so appreciated! Mil grazi~
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