HAPPY ANNIVERSARY and an AWARD!

HAPPY SECOND ANNIVERSARY!!
September 14th 2006 - September 14th 2008

Hurray! Today is the 2nd birthday of my blog. It's a big day for me and I'm so proud of this little success…the fact that I could continue blogging (almost) every day!

Since starting this blog I have had over 20,000 visitors and I have made 700 posts. I'm so thankful to have met many great friends from all over the globe, you and you and you.....

To keep up a good friendship means a lot for me and that's why I want to say thank you to all of my loyal visitors. Without your supportive comments I would not have come this far.

And now I'm also happy to announce an unexpected Birthday gift I got from a beautiful blogger friend of mine: Michele, the Rocky Mountain Girl. She gave me this wonderful award and I am grateful. She said to me: "I really do love your blog". Thank you so much Michele for this gift and your kind compliment. I'm honored to receive this from you and do you know what, I love your blog too and love to see all your beautiful and refreshing photos, even though sometimes they make a little bit homesick for the mountains. I'm a mountain girl too, but from a place far away over the ocean.

And I had a hard time deciding whom I will pass this award to, because there are so many great blogs that I love. I'm sure all of you, my friends, deserve this award!
I’m going to pass this on to:

- http://titaniastarlight.blogspot.com/
Finding Life's Enchantments; Her Blog is so enchanting with every visit I do!

- http://sandpiper727.blogspot.com/
Lynn's excellent nature photos!

- http://worldgo.blogspot.com/
my Swiss blog friend in Darfur with a great writing name and always interesting stories to tell!

- http://vlavagphoto.blogspot.com/
Vaggelis Vlahos, don't miss excellent photography from Greece!

- http://dianecasmetamorphoses.wordpress.com/
DianeCA, an American women, blogging about her life and happy marriage in Norway

Congratulations my friends and a big toast to the next two blog years to come! Prosit…Cheers… Skoal…Salute!

Today Is a Special Day For Us and for us Swiss too !

My Darling and I are married today for 7 years and still happy together!
(The picture was made 7 years ago in Key West, Florida, after our marriage)

Happy Birthday my Switzerland - it's our National Day today!
I'm very proud to be a Swiss and I have learned to appreciate my Country since I'm living as an expat in the U.S.!


Switzerland
(English pronunciation: [ˈswɪtsə(r)lənd] (help·info); German: Schweiz, French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a landlocked alpine country of roughly 7.6 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km². Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called cantons. Berne is the seat of the federal authorities, while the country's economic centres are its two global cities, Geneva and especially Zürich. Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world.

It is bordered by Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. Switzerland has a long history of neutrality — it has not been at war since 1815 — and hosts many international organizations, including the Red Cross, the World Trade Organization and one of the U.N.'s two European offices. Switzerland is multilingual and has four national languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. The country's formal name is Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft in German, Confédération suisse in French, Confederazione Svizzera in Italian and Confederaziun svizra in Romansh. The establishment of Switzerland is traditionally dated to August 1, 1291; the first of August is the national holiday.

Read more about Switzerland here
http://scour.com/view/result/?URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland

Please go also to my Swiss Blog
http://all-about-switzerland.blogspot.com
to read more about the Swiss and how they celebrate their National Day today!

One Year Blogging today!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU my Blog!

It was a GREAT year together. I had fun, you had fun - and together we got a lot of new wonderful friends this year!

I want to say "Thank you" to all my friends and visitors out there, who made it possible that my blog is what it is today: a fun place to share my photography and some moments in my life, down here in my little paradise.

Let's celebrate friendship for another year, or two...!

After the rain - and Anniversary is on the way!

This was the sky from yesterday evening after the rain. Isn't it beautiful?

Tomorrow will be my first ANNIVERSARY with this blog,
it is already one year old!!
O.M.G. and I thought I will not survive the first two 
months....!!! :-) I was really close to giving up this
whole blogging, because I had no visitors, or almost
no one... and then after a while I got recognized more
and more by other bloggers and they even were thinking
my blog is good, nice, interesting, funny..
(read all the comments... :)

And today, this is a big satisfaction for me and a big
challenge too, to do my blogging for another coming year
to bring every day a little piece of my little paradise
closer to you - with my photography!

Come over tomorrow to my blog, make a comment
and CELEBRATE with me!

Never ever give up your dreams  - in your real life too!!

I LOVE YOU!

Today is a special day in paradise! We get married 6 years ago, still happy and so much in love together! And this is a big reason to celebrate:

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DARLING - YOU ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE !