What I got today - for Mother's Day

A long time ago I adopted a then 16 year old girl and took her out of an orphanage.
We treasure each other, and she brought me this to celebrate the day.

Cello - sounds to promise soothing in the present and hope for the future

NOW I KNOW what was the glorious impetus for the Ukraian flag. Take a look

Today, in a humongous local hospital, visiting a close family member, I got seriously lost in the hallways. I always study the art on the walls, it's second nature. I came across this one, and took the photo.

I explained to the doctor who came along that the reason I took the photo was because they are the state flowers of Ukraine and they exported the most sunflower oil on earth. He did not know, and was really happy to learn. He said his church had gathered $10 000 for Ukraine, and he himself was financially aiding two hospitals there.

He then helped me find my way.

Only later when I showed the photo to my grandson who came for a visit as well, did it dawn on me when he immediately said: this photo shows the origins of their flag.

Enjoy:

From all the world and beyond

This photo was sent to me from Berlin from a Bonus Sister who got it from a friend in New Zealand.

Angel over Kiev - the whole world should see it - please pass on

Sat 3/5 Interview withe Admiral William McRaven - Informative - Impressive -Informed

Unstable

***Winners*** Announcement "February Part of the Whole Contest

***** Winners ANNOUNCEMENT***** FEBRUARY CONTEST "PART OF THE WHOLE"

The winner of the February Contest “PART OF THE WHOLE” is



FIRST PLACE
George McGovern with his sensitive adorable photo of

Cat’s ear


SECOND PLACE (BY ONLY 2 VOTES DIFFERENCE) GOES TO
MichaelSoE with his lovely and intriguing photo of

Attachments


Third Place belongs to

Grumpy Old Guy and his reminiscence with
A Lifetime of Service


Further placements are:

AndyS
Flight

Lake Arenal
Little Feet

Mz Pip with
Infrastructure and
Mnhtnbb with
Courtyard had equal number of votes

then the beauty of sound in
Rocknation
(One Fourth of) A Bass Run

which leaves
Tom Kitten with
La Brea and
soph0571 with
Glitter Angel Wings who also had equal number of votes

I was thrilled with the photographs as they came in and with the unusual mind expansion of the the theme. I thank all of you for participating

The winner of this contest, George McGovern, gets to chose the theme for the next contest in April - he has weeks to think about it and let mnhtnbb know since she is up to run the contest in April.

March is a Seasonal Contest. We will be celebrating the season of Winter and California Peggy has signed up to host it.

MY HOSTESS CHOICE PHOTOGRAPH IS
Little Feet


I ADORED IT FROM THE SECOND IT CAME IN, STILL DO, AND I WANT ALL OF US TO SEE IT ONE MORE TIME.

THANKS TO EVERYONE.

** I ** figured ** out ** what my problem was with posting the photos

I got my pc guru to look over the possibilities. He sat with my computer and watched me show what I had attempted, that i posted the preamble words and then the links to the photos all at the same time and that messed up the sizes. Though it did not do that in the preliminary threads.

When he removed from the text any of the things I had specified in it to make the text look better, such as "bold" and "excerpt" it all posted just fine.

Who knew?

Even for the guru is was a hit and miss and

it did not even take

it was just a fluke.

I was going to make it up to all of you and sign up for another stint as host but noticed all slots are filled.
So I owe you one, and will be on standby.

***NEW*** link to finals "Part of a Whole" with new annotations