The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many [...]

A quick note here on a lovely asymmetrical bob hairstyle I received for review recently.  Tameless is a salon I have not hear of before, but this Norine style, wavy and moving in the breeze as you walk, is an excellent wig for any who enjoy short styles, or want a more practical hairdo for [...]

Empress and Hierophant is one of several linked regions that simulate the Irish countryside.  That is, the Irish countryside as you might see it if a photography crew and one of those ethereal models they find in England — male and female — went to Ireland to pose for Rowan Yarn.  Those pictures are more [...]

Dug out of the depths of my Inventory, and tried on just today; when I saw this, I had to share it with you (grin)!

Not long ago, I featured an artist named Lanay in number 40 of Contact Sheet, admiring and praising her work.  Now it appears that I have a history with her that I must meditate on. Lanay declined adding her chosen photos to the Contact Sheet group on Koinup.  I didn’t understand at the time; most [...]

“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined….  For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called [...]

The region of Hinterland Orkney takes its looks and atmosphere from the RL Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland.  You cannot call it a desolate place, depending on what part you’re in; but it is rocky and hilly, and the North Sea climate is not given to large stands of trees together.  It’s [...]

During this time of the year, I like to take a look at one or two churches beyond my own virtual parish of the Anglican Cathedral in Second Life.  This year I’m returning to Finland, in a sense, for one. The Ristikiven kirkko, or Stone Cross Church, is a Finnish Lutheran church, located on an [...]