I created this blog back in January (2010), and since then have changed the theme several times. (The theme is the blog design and I have 70 or so to choose from here on the freebie version of WordPress.)
Last weekend while reading Felicity Dales‘ status updates on Facebook, as oftentimes happens when I click on one of her links to a blog post or article on a website, once there, I find links to other blog posts/articles, and that’s how I found LeavetheBuildingBlog.
Impressive! That was my first reaction to the blog design. Clean. Uncluttered. And the header…wow! I love the picture of the gold fish jumping out of the fishbowl. (If you haven’t yet clicked on the link to the blog–words highlighted like this are links–do it now so you can see for yourself what I’m talking about.)
The next thing that jumped out at me was the title of the most recent post (which may or may not be the case when YOU access the blog; so again, I’ll put in a nifty link so you can easily get there): Glenn Beck, Social Justice, and the Gospel. David & I are big fans of Glenn Beck. And while social justice isn’t the subject of this post, since I’m talking about and giving you a link to the post, I’ll go ahead and mention that David & I were disappointed (and even a bit incredulous) at some of Ken Eastburn’s statements concerning Glenn–especially since it seems the entire post came about as a result of his watching a clip of Glenn produced by ABC News.
So, I decided to add my two penneth worth (a comment)!
Go ahead. Take a look for yourself. It’s fifth down in the comments. And when you do, be sure and scroll to the very bottom (below the box for adding a comment). There, you should see the words, Blog at WordPress.com | Theme: Ocean Mist by Ed Merritt.
Now…scroll to the bottom of this post. What do you see? The same thing! Blog at WordPress.com | Theme: Ocean Mist by Ed Merritt. Cool, huh! 
The reason I didn’t use this theme initially was because of the default header (which has a picture that wasn’t appealing to me). So, once I saw how the folks at The Well had cleverly tweaked their header, I decided to see what I could come up with.
Okay…so it’s not all that clever–a pic of me sitting on a rock.
But it’s not just any ole pic of me sitting on a rock. It’s a pic David took of me on Sept. 22, 2006 while at Crabtree Falls, VA…just moments before he proposed!
So, the pic is very special and it brings back LOTS of special memories of not only that special day, but the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains near where I lived for almost 27 years.
I know you’ve probably heard the saying: You can take the man out of the country (or whatever), but you can’t take the country out of the man. The same is true here. You can take me out of Virginia, but you can’t take Virginia out of me. 
