I thought I would post this Monday bouquet early for dear friends and followers across the other side of the world for whom Easter Monday is almost over.
Today’s Blogging 201 assignment is to integrate features to draw traffic to older content on our blogs. I have added a top posts and pages widget in my sidebar and a related posts feature at the end of the page with images. Hope you like these additions. Let me know what you think.
Happy Easter weekend 🙂
The Naughty Ladybugs!
I couldn’t resist this re-posting since it seems so perfect for the challenge. I used a similar image last year for the Photo Challenge: Saturated.
May the Sauce be with you…
Cinque Terre laundry line for Ailsa’s weekly travel theme
Now I think this needs a little explanation. For the next two weeks I have joined the “Blogging University” at The Daily Post in a course entitled Blogging 201: Branding and Growth. Today we have been asked to audit our blogs, and one of the assignments is to add or update our taglines to give more context to our various titles. Now, since I don’t have a tagline and haven’t had one since I started blogging almost a year ago, this seemed to be the perfect time to finally put pen to paper and write one.
Nothing concentrates the mind more than to explain in one short sentence the “meaning of the life”, which leads me to today’s task.
For those of you who have been following my blog, and let me say I love you all, my use of the word Tulipolic will be very clear. If you are visiting for the first time I think the gallery of photos is all that is necessary together with a visit to my Monday Bouquet. The arts in the tagline of course refers to photography, painting, writing and anything else that inspires the creative spirit residing in all of us and which is forever changing.
So there you have it, a tagline together with an accompanying new header image and the completion of today’s assignment. Do I hear a drum role?…
The Canadian National War Memorial stands in Confederation Square, Ottawa. It is also known as The Response.
The Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa commemorates Canada’s 100th anniversary as a Confederation.
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, France
The monument is dedicated to the memory of the members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force killed during the First World War. It was designed by Walter Allward and took eleven years to build. It was unveiled in 1936 and following an extensive restoration rededicated by Her Majesty the Queen on 9 April 2007 during a ceremony to commemorate the battle’s 90th anniversary.
Today marks the 97th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which took place from 9 to 12 April, 1917. Those of you who follow my blog will have seen my post this week commemorating the Battle and where you will find links to previous posts of mine containing more images and a video from the Vimy Memorial site.
Commemorating the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which began at 5:30 am on Easter Monday the 9th of April 1917. The battle continued until nightfall of the 12th of April when the Canadian Corps of four divisions gained firm control of the ridge. They suffered 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. Four members of the Corps received Victoria Crosses for their actions during the battle:
To view more images of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial I invite you to visit my post for Remembrance Day last year.
The haunting Flowers of the Forest is played by Pipe Major Angus MacDonald of the Scots Guards who for several years was the personal piper to Her Majesty the Queen, and described as one of the finest bagpipe players in the world.
Lest we forget
I thought I would follow up my submission to the Daily Prompt: Make Me Smile with this homage to Rene Magritte’s painting Ceci nest pas une pipe.
Its partner piece is entitled not a painting or Ceci n’est pas une peinture in keeping with the homage, since it really isn’t a painting, but as you can see is indeed a knot…in a frame…which by the way is not for sale!
Finally, this week I submitted for the first time to the Weekly Writing Challenge. This week’s challenge is to write a story in exactly fifty words. I entitled it Knot at Home (sound familiar?) It is another homage, this one to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, as you will see if you visit the post on my other site theotherpalette.
OK…I think it’s time in the immortal words of George Burns to “Say Goodnight, Gracie”…
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