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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alainat5:00 am on April 19, 2019. It has 8 Comments.

Good Morning All,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

These submissions are exquisite – I cannot say it enough, this community is just amazing.

Happy Passover and Easter to those who celebrate, and to all others, all the best to you and yours. Hugs all the way around, y’all, Spring is here!

Have a wonderful day and weekend, enjoy the pictures, and we’ll see you next week, when we again look forward.

This post is in On The Road, Open Thread, Readership Capture, Travel and has 8 Comments.

On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alainat5:00 am on April 18, 2019. It has 11 Comments.

Good Morning All,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

Yet more on a wonderful treasure of humankind. This community is just amazing.

This post is in On The Road, Open Thread, Readership Capture, Travel and has 11 Comments.

On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alainat5:00 am on April 17, 2019. It has 21 Comments.

Good Morning All,

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

This post is in On The Road, Open Thread, Readership Capture, Travel and has 21 Comments.

On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alainat5:00 am on April 16, 2019. It has 32 Comments.

Good Morning All,

Attentive readers may have noticed that my name is no longer “Alain the site fixer”. This is because for the next while, I won’t be; while the rebuild and associated changes are made, I’m not doing squat. Once the dust settles, we’ll see what’s what. So it made sense for me to remove that part of my nym. I’m still here and if things come up, I’ll jump in to help, of course, but for now it makes sense to remove this extra cook from the kitchen.

After the tragedy yesterday which still has so many of us reeling, we’ve got some pictures from Notre Dame. I’m so thankful for this community at times like this. I cannot believe that I’ll not visit this magnificent cathedral again and I feel like something has been ripped from deep inside me. I think my first visit was age 7. These pictures are such a salve – thank you!

This post is in On The Road, Open Thread, Readership Capture, Travel and has 32 Comments.

On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alainat5:00 am on April 15, 2019. It has 25 Comments.

Good Morning All,

Happy tax day, US readers, I hope this year didn’t screw too many of you!

Attentive readers may have noticed that my name is no longer “Alain the site fixer”. This is because for the next while, I won’t be; while the rebuild and associated changes are made, I’m not doing squat. Once the dust settles, we’ll see what’s what. So it made sense for me to remove that part of my nym. I’m still here and if things come up, I’ll jump in to help, of course, but for now it makes sense to remove this extra cook from the kitchen.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

This post is in On The Road, Open Thread, Readership Capture, Travel and has 25 Comments.