{"id":954,"date":"2007-11-08T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:30:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:30:50","slug":"in-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"In the neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/marlulakecopy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130258776528126674\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 293px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 207px\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/marlulakecopy-300x208.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Vicki at <a href=\"http:\/\/amarkonmywall.wordpress.com\/\">A Mark on My Wall<\/a> likes to refer to the people in her blogroll as her *neighborhood* and I&#8217;m stealing her jargon to point out some interesting posts you may have missed.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but when I decide to peruse another&#8217;s blogroll, I tend to start at the top and may never find my way down to the very bottom of the list. Because my list is alphabetical, I worry that you may be missing out on some fantastic blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Way down at the end of the alphabet is <a href=\"http:\/\/whorledleaves.blogspot.com\/\">Whorled Leaves<\/a>, the nature reading blog I contribute to. We&#8217;ve been pretty quiet of late, but I have to suggest a book to the group in another month or two and would love some ideas from you all of a few good, nature-inspired books for our group to read and blog about together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greensleeves.typepad.com\/berkshires\/\">Walking the Berkshires<\/a> is written by Tim, a friend at Whorled Leaves, and he recently wrote about a walk in the <a href=\"http:\/\/greensleeves.typepad.com\/berkshires\/2007\/11\/november-woods.html\">November woods<\/a> that I found very beautiful. He&#8217;s starting a new blog carnival that he&#8217;s calling <a href=\"http:\/\/greensleeves.typepad.com\/berkshires\/2007\/11\/new-blog-carniv.html\">Cabinet of Curiosities<\/a> to showcase the oddities in your attic. Tim&#8217;s blog is great fun for the history buff and I can also imagine Donna enjoying his occasional tales of his time spent in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Dave at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vianegativa.us\/\">Via Negativa<\/a> recently wrote about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vianegativa.us\/2007\/11\/05\/a-canadian-visitor\/\">golden eagle<\/a> that dropped into his family&#8217;s property in Pennsylvania. Check out the curve of those talons in the opening photo &#8211; spectacular! Dave stops by here from time to time and of late has been leaving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vianegativa.us\/2007\/10\/30\/shine-or-shimmer\/\">haiku comments<\/a> on the blogs he favors. Gotta love a poet!<\/p>\n<p>FC at <a href=\"http:\/\/pureflorida.blogspot.com\/\">Pure Florida<\/a> writes about all things&#8230;. well&#8230; Florida and <a href=\"http:\/\/pureflorida.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/cross-florida-sunset.html\">this post<\/a> momentarily (mostly that opening photo) made me think he had paid a visit to NJ. I love visiting his blog for the chance to read about *our* birds that have gone away, plus he finds the best things on his adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Did you catch the current issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/festivalofthetrees.wordpress.com\/\">Festival of the Trees<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/windywillow.blogspot.com\/\">Windywillow<\/a>? (Scroll down as the there are two posts for this issue). The deadline for the December issue is the 29th of November. Submission guidelines can be found at the festival&#8217;s homepage.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I&#8217;m obliged to mention that Mike at <a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/\">10,000 Birds<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/bird-the-definitive-visual-guide-giveaway.htm\">book giveaway offer<\/a> for Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide which he reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/bird-the-definitive-visual-guide.htm\">here<\/a>. Stop by to read the giveaway rules.<\/p>\n<p>Whew &#8211; it&#8217;s a busy neighborhood!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki at A Mark on My Wall likes to refer to the people in her blogroll as her *neighborhood* and I&#8217;m stealing her jargon to point out some interesting posts you may have missed. 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