Staten Island Ferry

On my first trip to Staten Island, NY,

I asked the residents 

what I should be sure to do before leaving.

The unanimous answer 

was to ride the Staten Island Ferry.

Here is the view of NYC from Staten Island.

These are my two daughters.

If you look carefully you can see

The Statue of Liberty

in the background.

A view from the ferry of NYC.

 

Since I boarded the ferry just before sunset, 

 the skies were in state of constant color change.

And of course I could not leave you without seeing Lady Liberty!

More photos from this set can be found here.

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Farmer's Market Find

Nearby in Lansdale PA 

I just happened upon a Farmer's Market in progress 

and made a sweet discovery!

Cupcakes....

but not just any cupcakes.

These cupcakes are made with love, 

true love.

You can see the love in the careful way they are iced.

Each one...Perfect.

But more importantly,

you can taste the love.

Made from scratch 

with the finest ingredients:

European Dark Chocolate, 

Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla, 

American Sweet Cream Butter, 

Local Organic Milk and Fruits.



My favorite?
The Red Velvet.
Pure heaven!



To find your piece of heaven,
contact Stacie Bellos,
the maker of these Sweet Velvets,
at 610-220-3096
www.sweetvelvetcupcakery.com

Friday My Town Shootout

Two Munchkins

 

I was the lucky gal
who got to photograph these two cutie pies!

They were dressed in BLUE!

Lavender's Blue

Near the Peace Valley Park 

in Bucks County, PA 

sits a peaceful, family owned lavender farm.

The owners are very friendly,

and even welcomed me to take photos.

Here is the drying room.

The flowers just hange to dry

the old fashioned way.

Don't you just love that?

They do all the work on the premises. 

And they sell all variety of lavender products 

in their quaint gift shop.

To peek inside the gift shop,
view my gallery here.

Peace Valley Lavender Farm

802 New Galena Road
Doylestown, PA 18901
(215) 249-8462

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Get Followers...Get Comments!

I have a few suggestions for making it easier for people to visit your blog 

and let you know they stopped by.

I am writing this because I love to keep up with your blogs, 

but it does take quite a bit of time 

and I often get behind. 

So, it is sort of a selfish set of suggestions.

Comments:

First, do you require word verification 

for someone to leave a comment?

If you do, you will likely get less comments.

I confess, when I am crunched for time, 

I often skip leaving comments on blogs that require word verification. 

And if I do, and I make a mistake with the word verification, 

it is extremely unlikely that I will try again. 

So 'poof' there goes the beloved comment!

If you love comments, 

consider becoming comment friendly!

In blogger to adjust your word verification settings:

You need to do this for each of your blogs if you have more than one.

Dashboard>Settings>

Show word verification for comments?

Yes No

Instead of using word verification to prevent spam, 

prevent anonymous users from commenting. 

Dashboard>Settings>

Who Can Comment? Anyone - includes Anonymous Users
Registered Users - includes OpenID
Users with Google Accounts
Only members of this blog  

And I find the easiest way to leave a comment for someone

is with a pop up comment box.

Dashboard>Settings>

Comment Form Placement Full page
Pop-up window
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Readership

To increase readership of your blog, 

make it as easy as possible for people to follow your blog.

The Follow This Blog tool in blogger is lovely 

for people who refer to their blogger dashboard for updates.

But, you want to get your blog read, right?

So get it out there where anyone can follow it.

That means you want to provide 

a way for anyone to follow your blog. 

In blogger go to

Dashboard>Design>Add a gadget.

Add gadgets that provide 'follow'options:

Here are a few:

Followers

Follow by Email

Feed

Subscription Links

I can tell you I never miss a post by 

Wayne or Heather.

Why?

Because they make it EASY for me to follow them.

Wayne and Heather both use Networked Blogs.

By using Networked Blogs, 

I easily follow them through my Facebook feed.

I use my facebook feed for everything. 

From local event feeds, restaurant feeds, 

photogroup feeds, etc, etc.

And if I can't add your blog to my feed, 

I will get behind, way behind!

You don't need to actually use facebook to let 

other people follow you via Facebook. 

Just set up a facebook page for your blog to update to - 

which is what Wayne does. 

The only thing on his FB page are blogger updates 

which go directly to my FB feed.

I would really like to follow your blog 

via Networked Blogs...

If you add the feed to your blog,

 please let me know
and I will pop over and follow you! 

Here are some other suggestions for

getting your blog read!

WW II Reading Air Show

The World War II Air Show in Reading, PA 

is a very popular spot with history buffs. 

Previously I posted on the flame throwers, 

but today we'll see the vintage airplanes.

On the ground... 

This planes wings fold up.

In the air..

Check out all the airshow photos here.

World War 2 Re enactment

The Mid Atlantic Air Museum

in Reading, PA

hosts a World War 2 Re enactment Weekend each year.

It is a large event

with re enactors from all

countries involved in the war.

In the afternoon

there is an airshow with

planes from the era as well.

The flame throwers

were part of the ground show

of the air show.

We could feel the heat from where we were sitting!

Pretty cool, huh?

I'll be posting more photos from the event this week,

but if you can't wait the event photo gallery is here.

(Although I will be uploading more that also.)