48 of 365 Building Again!

Sometime last year there was a terrible building incident on Harbour. It was one of those mistakes that everyone who has been in SL any length of time has done or seen or heard about. Yes, folks, we had an "auto return the entire build" mishap. I had approximately 1500 prims of house, landscaping, art....well every damn thing on the parcel came flying back into my inventory in random groupings. I nearly cried. Then I got on with it and rebuilt everything in about 6 hours of intense work.

Yes, I built out the entire parcel over a period of weeks. Then I replaced every thing again in 6 hours. It sort of sucked and honestly I have not built a single thing since. That is not entirely true, I suppose. I have done random bits of fiddling but I have had zero creative spark. I have tried. I have rezed a build platform and moved prims around. I have deleted a lot. I have been stuck.

There is nothing like creative new neighbors on the sim to help me find my muse! Lalo and Alisa moved in on Feline's old parcel and set about making the land their own. They are both excellent builders and have done a fantastic job. I was looking at what they did and feeling a little "meh" about the snow outside my window and on my SLand and I had this urge for a trip to someplace warm...someplace where a cuddly cute cabana boy would bring me a giant mango flavored drink, perhaps. So, I set about creating the setting for my little fantasy.

Here are the results.

47 of 365 Lemondrops Forest

Slurl to Lemondrops Forest

46 of 365 "Leroy"

(please click for a larger view)

Visit Leory

45 of 365 One serious prediction for Second Life in 2011

When I was at SLCC I had a moment where friends insisted I meet Philip Linden. During that very short conversation he said something that I believe is significant and does not appear to be getting much attention. I don't actually remember if Philip mentioned the issue in his talk or if if just came up in conversation, but while we are thinking about changes to SL that may or may not happen in 2011, I do think along with mesh LL is going to limit the number of prims avatars can wear.

Here is what I wrote based on my conversation with Philip in August,

At the "Avatar Ball" I said to Philip Linden "What scares me is avatar limits." His response was "You should be scared." Then he launched into a long discussion of region prim limits and the impact of not limiting prims/scripts for avatars. In the same breath he reiterated "But I am giving you mesh." So, there you have it.

As I have said a billionty times, I am not a technical person so I am not sure what avatar limits mean, but Philip talked about the load avatars wearing a lot of prims place on the servers. He said that back when they were creating Second Life they made a mistake when they limited the number of prim that could be rezzed in a sim but did not limit the number of prims avatars could wear. This is the problem Philip said LL needs to correct and I do think we should expect to see limits in the future.

If and when avatar limits are imposed there will be repercussions for people who like to load up their avatars with attachments. Fashionistas? Furries? Robots? Things might be changing.

44 of 365 Chestnut's 2011 Second Life Predictions

I just love a good prediction. Particularly if it is based on nothing at all and most especially if the thing you are predicting is entirely predictable so that a year later you can look back and say "ah ha!" I am so good at predicting things. Like, say, today is Monday so I predict someone, somewhere will complain about having to go to work. See how good I am at this? I barely even need to consult my trusty crystal ball.

Having established that I am an excellent predictor of all things predictable, I decided I am going to do my own top ten super predictions for Second Life in 2011. These are not as funny or likely as pinpoint accurate as Botgirl's predictions, but here they are anyway.

10. Linden Lab will do something ill conceived.

9. Lots of people will predict the end of Second Life as a result of this ill conceived action on the part of the Lab.

8. Two weeks later another policy choice or personnel action at LL will enrage people enough that they will forget about the last reason they predicted the demise of Second Life and these same people will predict the end of the virtual world.

7. There will be plurk, blog, fashionista, and group drama because that famous blogger/designer guy was an alt of that other guy, who was really a girl and she was neglecting her kids while in SL all the time, which is of course understandable because she has a terminal disease and her RLBF never did understand.

6. The details of this breakaway drama will first appear as a Shopping Cart Disco secret which will be followed up by a feature article in the Alphaville Herald. New World Notes will ignore the whole thing and Hamlet will continue to write about why SL should be more like Facebook, causing people to gnash their teeth and sputter.

5. Speaking of New World Notes, Hamlet will continue to look for an Events Writer to replace me but will eventually give up when Linden Lab fixes search and allows people to create their own RSS feed of favorite events by following certain performers and venues via a widget on the Sl website. I got out before I was banned, yo! And speaking of banned......

4. In 2011, every person "permabanned" by Linden Lab will be back on the grid within an hour of their banishment. The newest game on the grid will be to guess the alts of the morally and ethically challenged permabanned to see if you can figure out who is who now. I will win this game regularly, btw.

3. Somebody, likely the alt of the aforementioned permabanned griefers, will build a Third Party Viewer that incorporates all the features of Imprudence/Phoenix and the good parts of the LL 2.0 based viewer. There will be much rejoicing in the land. That is, until people figure out the which griefer/hacker/script kiddie is behind the viewer and then there will be more gnashing of teeth and sputtering.

2. Mesh will arrive and at first we will all moan when our bloated inventories become as obsolete as 2006 hair. Then content creators will make wonderful, amazing new items for us to buy and everyone from fashionistas to sim owners to non profits and educators will do our part to help the in-world economy. We will buy thousands of pixel items we cannot use on other grids, thus maintaining our status as virtual prisoners of our inventories in SL. Eventually, someone will create a website to sell virtual goods that can be used in different VWs and we will no longer be prisoners in SL, but this is not likely to happen in 2011 I don't think. Too bad though.

And, my number one Second Life prediction for 2011 is.......

1.Despite its problems and flaws, Second Life will continue to be a source of entertainment, income and diversion for millions of people.

Amen.

43 of 365 A Christmas tale of annoying relatives

This blurry phone picture of my Christmas tree, which I took just now on Boxing Day, pretty much tells you what you need to know about my holiday. It was blurry, shaky, and slightly out of focus.

You know how there is always one relative who can suck the air out of the room and who makes you head to the wine bottle over and over? If you are lucky this person is actually only related to you by marriage so you can get all superior when you whisper to your spouse about her general disagreeableness and lack of personal hygiene, and say "at least we don't share any DNA." The dance everyone does at the dinner table to make sure there is no open chair next to them can be amusing. This relative is the person NO one wants to sit next to at Christmas dinner.

Well my sort of relative who is not actually related to me by blood, thank god, was in rare form last night. She was sullen and disagreed with every single thing, every single person said. It was all I could do not to say "look....umm.......searches for a pretend name and giving up.....seethes "Ann" why don't you take your crappy attitude, get back on Metro North and return from whence you came so the rest of us can enjoy the evening." Since I was not in my home and she is not my mother I just smiled and filled my glass -- again, and again and again.

Which is why I did not post yesterday and why I missed talking to one person I really wanted to wish a Merry Christmas and why I was fast asleep by 10pm.

Today we are expecting a snow storm which make take my Boxing Day Party from a huge gathering to a small bunch of brave people who are not put off by a little snow. Oh, and since you are probably wondering, Ann is not invited but I am sure her presence will be felt. We are all going to have to recount, in excruciating detail, how completely annoying she was on Christmas. In fact, the story will probably be retold multiple time between now and next Christmas when I am sure a new chapter in the story of my annoying relatives will be written.

42 of 365 Christmas Eve Blahs

This image has nothing to do with anything, especially Christmas. I am mostly not feeling Christmas this year. Ok, let's be honest I never really do.

I will be spending the next few days with RL family and friends and that always makes me happy. I will get to see my nieces and my nephew who is the most adorable child on the face of the earth, so that is fun. Other than that? Meh to commercialism, feh to stress and pressure. I find myself getting caught up in all of it and I really hate it.

If you are looking for holiday cheer you are at the wrong blog. I can pour you a glass of creamy, delicious Bailey's though.

Drink up.

41 of 365 Change is good

My RL boss just got a major internal promotion so my job is going to be changing. My SL neighbor is moving to a new parcel within the Five Islands so we are going to have new neighbors. And, I think I have an idea about the direction of my next big SL project.

Change is in the air.

40 of 365 Seasons of Love

Zachh Cale and Tamra Sands played Seasons of Love yesterday. Its the kind of song that gets stuck in your head and I have been singing it over and over. It is a sad and melancholy song that is beautiful in its sentiment. How do we measure our lives? What matters? In the end it is the day to day simple moments that make relationships. The big moments matter less than the ongoing little moments of caring and just being there.

Sometimes, when things get hard listening to a song like this is all it takes to help me find my center and remember what matters.

Seasons of Love Lyrics

Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Moments so dear

Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights
In cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife

In five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life?

How about love? How about love?
How about love? Measure in love

Seasons of love
Seasons of love

Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Journeys to plan

Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life
Of a woman or a man?

In truths that she learned
Or in times that he cried
In bridges he burned
Or the way that she died

It's time now to sing out
Tho' the story never ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of friends

Remember the love
(Oh you got to, got to)
Remember the love
(Remember the love)
Seasons of love
(Measure measure you life in love)
Seasons of love
Seasons of love

39 of 365 The Companion

Go with a Companion or go alone. Just go.

Welcome to the second edition of The Companion. The Companion is based on a Norwegian folk tale. This place is built by Andrek Lowell. Explore the site, click on the pictures of a storyteller and you will be told the story. Also enable sound, as it is a part of story.

The animations used are made by Frigg Ragu. If you scroll you mouse on objects, you will discover the animations you can try out.

Yggdrasil and Rabbit in the moon is build by Soror Nishi.

You can also teleport to Poses for Prose and Poetry, or rabbit in the moon where you find Ozimals Bunnies. Look at the pictures on the wall.

Thank you for visiting this place and you are always welcome back.

Frigg ragu / Mimesis Monday

38 of 365 Its all over now and the real grieving begins

What a weekend.

Delinda's Memorial is over now. I have so many things to say but at this point on a Monday morning all I can do is offer some observations.

Some people can do more in a short life than others do in a century.

People are amazingly hard working and loving.

The power of positive thinking and energetic tackling of problems can produce incredible results.

Some people will use anything, even a Memorial, for self promotion.

That fact disgusts me.

Delinda loved to bring people together and promote the wonderful things about SL.

The world would be a far better place if more people were like that instead of concentrating on whatever the fuck Linden Lab is up to on a daily basis.

Focusing on a positive person for a while makes the complaints of people with constant complaints feel like fucking annoying complaints.

I really have a problem taking credit for anything, even when I deserve some credit.

I maybe should take a lesson from the self promoters, although using a Memorial to try to get a job or sell your stuff is disgusting.

Getting the worst flu of your life the week before a massive event that happens to fall the weekend before Christmas is a very bad idea.

Especially when you are having a RL Boxing Day party and expect oh about 75 people in your home very soon.

Holy Shit.

I have to go to a RL Funeral today because, you know, there isn't enough sadness around me already.

~~~

To Delinda's RL family: I hope her SL Memorial showed you how much we loved your Denise. I hope there is some comfort in that for you. I know there is nothing that we can say or do that eases your pain but we would if we could. Thank you for sharing her with us and with the world.

~~~

I normally don't name names on this blog because I am afraid I will forget someone or offend. This time I am going to name names. If I leave you out or hurt you I apologize in advance. I am human and have been sick and grieving. So, yanno.

Angie, Autumn, Fanci, Free, LaDonna, Nicci, Cellandra, Tangle, Oliver, Nekololi, Berry, Paisley, OhMy, SuperDave, Bliss, Baldi, BeeJee, Zak and Kat, Kit, Beth, Lorin, Saraine, my dear friend Crap, my partner Zha, all the people who live, work and sail at Sailors Cove, every person who performed and those who wanted to perform but could not do so, to ever person who came and stayed at the Memorial for hours, and those who only were able to come for a short time, to those of you who wanted to come but were not able to be there, to every person who tweeted, plurked and blogged, to those of you who were fortunate enough to know Delinda and to those of you who missed that chance - thank you from the bottom of my heart. You all proved to me what makes Second Life wonderful. You are all the reason I continue to log in, still, after all these years.

~~~

Delinda, I hope we did you proud.

37 of 365 Delinda Memorial Day 2

The Memorial is in full swing right now. Since early yesterday morning we have had between 40 and 50 people in the sim at all times. So many people. So much love. It has been fabulous.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All of you.

36 of 365 Delinda's Memorial Begins

I am going to be honest and say I have not cried that much since Delinda died. I have been sad, gutted. Somehow the tears did not come. People were falling apart all around me and there was work to do so I kept my nose to the grindstone and just tried to put the Memorial together.

Autumn, Fanci, Nicci, Angie and LaDonna were total rock stars and did everything needed to coordinate about 45 performers and 30 visual artists as well as tons of volunteers. Oliver Szondi donated a 5,000 listener stream at his own expense. I tried to keep the sails full and the boat on course and when the flu hit me this week I sort of failed at that. Sighs.

At 9am when Mason Thorne took the stage and started the Memorial weekend with "Amazing Grace" I think the effects of grief, illness and stress washed over me and I just lost it. Damn you kidney disease. Damn you.

I miss you Delinda.

35 of 365 Penguins!

This is from a series of images I toyed with using for my holiday card. I think I might like it better than the one I actually used. Go figure.

34 of 365 Did I mention I am sick?

yep. Jack Johnson.

Delinda Dyrssen Memorial

A two day Memorial Celebration of the incredible life of Delinda Dyrssen will take place this coming weekend, Saturday 12/18 and Sunday 12/19. There will be live music, comedy, an art auction, a grand sail around Sailor's Cove on Saturday afternoon and tributes to our dear friend. I know several musicians have written songs for Delinda so you can expect to hear beautiful original music over the course of the weekend. The schedule is not entirely finalized so expect some additions and changes.

Saturday 12/18 - Sailors Cove Theater

SLurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fishers%20Island/13/125/23

9:00am Mason Thorne

9:30am Zachh Cale

10:00am Pmann Sands

11:00am Christopher135 Quan

11:30am Astronimus Randt (or Astronimus Galaxy) with Cellandra Zon

12:00 pm PonDman Haalan

12:30 pm Tpenta Vanalten

1:00 pm to 3:00pm Remembrance of Delinda

3:00pm Heath Elvhjem

3:30pm Skye Galaxy

4:30pm Truelie Telling

5:00pm Beth Odets & Strum Diesel

5:30pm Dexter Ihnen

6:00pm Etherian Kamaboko

6:30pm Nesto Silverfall

7:00pm Noma Falta

7:30pm OhMy Kidd

8:00pm Pato Milo

8:30pm Anek Fuchs

9:00pm Phemie Alcott

Sunday 12/19 - The Pocket

SLurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Freestar%20Bay%20Isle/229/39/22

9:00am Pilgrim75 Swashbuckler

9:30am Lorin Tone

10:00am Arimo Teixeira

11:00am Frets Nirvana

12:00pm The Follow

12:30pm CraigLyons Writer

1:00pm TwinGhost Ronas

2:00pm Guitar Zane

3:00pm ZeroOne Paz

3:30pm Zak Claxton

4:00pm Phaylen Fairchild

4:30pm Lauren Weyland

5:00pm Maximillion Kleene with Cellandra Zon

5:30pm Wytchwhisper Sadofsky

6:00pm Zachh Cale

6:30pm Ande Foggarty

7:00pm Blues Heron

7:30pm Vaughan Michalak

8:00pm Freestar Tammas

8:30pm Von Johin

9:00pm Moondoggirl Moomintoog

9:30pm Kit Guardian

10:00pm Matthew Perrault

10:30pm RoseDrop Rust

11:00pm ColeMarie Soleil

OPEN MIC

We do expect the sims to be crowded so if you want a quiet place to listen you are welcome to do so at my home http://slurl.com/secondlife/Harbour/194/144/24 or at Crap Mariner's Clocktree Park http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edloe/118/108/28. If anyone else would like to stream the Memorial on their land please let me know.

Enjoy more than 30 art works graciously donated by creative friends of Delinda's for the art auction and you are encouraged to bid generously. The funds will go to KDIGO which is a charity that was near to Delinda's heart. There will be art displayed on both sims so please visit Sailor's Cove and The Pocket to enjoy the works.

One of the goals of the Memorial is to raise awareness about kidney disease and the international database for paired kidney donation that Delinda was promoting when she died so suddenly. KDIGO is a global non-profit foundation dedicated to improving the care and outcomes of kidney disease patients. Please visit the KDIGO webpage and read more about the organization here. If you are interested in learning about how you can give the gift of life by donating one of your kidneys please visit the US National Kidney Registry at their webpage here.

Delinda's RL family and her SL friends encourage you to consider making a Memorial donation in Delinda's name to the The National Kidney Foundation, which is part of KDIGO. If you want to make a donation I encourage you to do so via the webpage at this link http://tinyurl.com/2fhn3vw.

If you choose the "Memorial Gift" option Delinda's family will get a note from the Foundation. I can't think of a more lovely tribute than for them to get hundreds of notes so they know how much Delinda was loved. Please make memorial gifts for Denise Williams rather than Delinda Dyrssen. Thanks

~~~

ETA: If you want to read more about Delinda in RL from her very close family friend dbarrie go here.

My apologies for neglecting to mention that the enormous stream needed for the Memorial is being donated by Oliver Szondi of Slipstreams, who you should certainly talk to if you are in need of a stream.

33 of 365 I have an excuse!

I have been sick. I mean really, really, really sick. Of the past 24 hours I think I was awake for about maybe 3 hours total. So, yeah...taking a picture was the last thing on my mind. The first think on my mind was breathing and the second thing was not coughing.

I actually feel only marginally better but I have obligations today that made me get up out of bed. I figured I would try the "faking it until you make it" school of recovery. Chances are pretty good I will be back in bed by this afternoon.

Soooooooooooooooo.....no promises for anything spectacular here for a little while.

32 of 365 Join the best community in SL

Visit Edloe

If you have ever thought about living with us on the Five Islands now is the time to raise your hand. You can find details about this beautiful parcel here. I am not going to talk about prims (plenty) or ability to make the parcel your own (of course you can) what I am going to tell you about is our unique approach to the estate.

Long before I moved to Harbour I heard about the Five Islands which are run collectively by the residents. Yes, Crap Mariner collects the tier and the island are in his name as far as Linden Lab is concerned. But, that is just part of the story. Crap asks for input on all decisions that would impact the community and he actually...gasp...listens to what we say. There is often lively discussion about things and decisions are arrived at via a consensus. That is not to say we all agree on everything (can you say winter?) but everyone has a voice and issues of concern are discussed. The main group of people who live on the Five Islands have been stable for years now.

If you are interested in a community that can offer you beautiful land for your home, friendly but not intrusive neighbors, a stable community that is run by its members then please let me know or talk to Crap Mariner directly. Please understand that the community will get a list of names and they will vote about who will be offered the parcel. This is not some kind of popularity contest and it is not something to worry about so please do not let that put you off throwing your name in the hat. The voting is a way for everyone to have a voice and to make sure there are no personality conflicts between neighbors.

If you have questions or want to know more let me know.

31 of 365 Metropolitan Commonwealth of Nem

Come for the Shops!

Come for the Games!

Come for the Apartments!

Come for the Fun!

- Nem has established an arcade complex with over a dozen playable arcade machines. High scores are displayed and they are free to play. The "Nem Now" team have decided to run a monthly competition in which every issue , the current "Arcade Emperor " is announced. The arcade emperor will have his name displayed on a wall of fame in the arcade complex. The arcade emperor is chosen based on the resident with the most high scores on all of the arcade machines. If you have any queries/ ideas concerning the arcade please contact Arnold Gustav or any of Nem's admins.

- The city of Nem is finalizing it's very own underground forest. This is a public accsess area and is a great spot for RP'ing or relaxing. The underground forest will also feature a promenade 50ft above the tree line where residents can enjoy the spectacular views.

30 of 365 Calas Galadhon

Winter is lovely at Calas Galadhon

I missed day 29

During my first 365 I never missed a day. There were times when I got out of my warm bed and went to the computer to grab a quick snap to post. Yesterday I realized I had forgotten to post and basically rolled over, cuddled my husband and said "oh well." I guess having proven to myself I can post without missing a day I am less OCD about it this time around.

Yesterday was a crazy day. My daughter did her own version of "What Not to Wear" with my RL closet, which was amusing and yet a little sad. My fashionista kid basically gutted my closet, insulted my taste in clothes and pointed out the 20lbs I have gained since before she was born. Good times. All in all I guess it is a RL shopping opportunity. That is after I join Weight Watchers on January 1st. Cookies for breakfast between now and then I guess. Yes, I realize the ridiculousness of this paragraph thank you very much.

After I was insulted by my teenage daughter I went to get my hair cut and colored. I spend a ridiculous amount of money on my RL hair. Probably not as much as I have spent at ETD and Truth over the years but a lot of money nonetheless. I love going to the salon. I love the girly conversation, I love the soft music and the beautiful art on the walls. I love the 2 hours of pure indulgence and that time every other month is really the *only* time in my life where no one can get me to do a single thing for them. I go because I refuse to have ugly hair and because I do not accept the grey that is beginning to creep in but mostly I go to the salon to have uninterrupted girl time. So, sue me.

After I got home from the salon my 12 year old son had a bunch of his gamer friends over and they had taken over my house. Literally. There were snack foods and tall smelly boys in various stages of puberty everywhere. It was frightening. I sent my husband and the gang of hormones out to a movie, jumped in my husband's truck and loaded up on provisions for the eventual sleepover. You see, even as I write this morning my living room is a sea of long-haired, soon to be tattooed young men who are playing xbox or staring at laptops. There is a constant stream of trash talk as they kill each other in various gaming situations or work together as part of the Ocean Clan in Minecraft. Pretty soon they are going to want pancakes.

There you have it. A small glimpse into my glamorous life. Don't be hating. You wish you were a suburban mom, I know it.

28 of 365 Did Ya miss my face?

Ok. I said no pictures of my face for the full 365 days. You didn't think I would actually do that did you?

~~~

This evening I went to listen to my friend Freestar Tamas play. She sang a song that she wrote for Delinda and it was amazing. As she sang I appreciated how emotional the Memorial is going to be and then I realized I have not blogged the details yet. I will write that post over the weekend.

For now I will say Delinda's Memorial will take place next weekend and it will include two days of music, an art auction, a grand sail at Sailor's Cove, an hour of comedy and of course tributes to our dear friend. Its going to be wonderful -- sad and wonderful.

27 of 365 Altered Frames Gallery

"Existance Intertwining"

Lovely art by Noelani Lightfoot

26 of 365

For Delinda by Chantal Harvey

Grief, motherhood and the pink elephant in the room

I knew today was going to be a crappy day before I went to bed last night. Today is the anniversary of my mom's death and it would have been Delinda's birthday too. Delinda and my mom both died way too young.

I woke up weepy and sad and cranky and decided a boatload of resentment and anger I have been holding for a long time was coming out in the general direction of someone who is selfish and thoughtless. You think I might be transferring my grieving over to other things? Yep. I am sure I am. Too bad. If you are going to take me for granted and expect that I am always going to be a happy little doormat, it is time to figure out that times are changing.

I am so damn tired.

My sister's Facebook status said "lost my best friend 15 years ago today. miss you mom" Yeah. Its kind of like that.

Mom never met my kids and that just kills me because she wanted to be a grandma so much. I was pregnant with Sophie while she was in a coma dying from cancer. I knew I was pregnant but everyone told me I was imagining things in my grief. When I started to have uncontrollable morning sickness they began to believe me.

The crazy thing is my mom was pregnant with me while her own mother lay dying in a hospital bed from a grapefruit size tumor in her brain. I am terrified about the day my daughter tells me she is pregnant. I am absolutely convinced a huge tumor will start to grow the exact moment I hear the news. Yeah. Its kind of like that.

Fifteen years later and I still miss my mom every single day. I aspire to as good a mom for my own children as she was for me and my siblings. I hope I am doing her proud.

image courtesy of that lunagirl

25 of 365 12/7/95 - The day my life changed forever

Every year I light a candle in your memory.

I miss you mom.

Love, me.

Image taken at the Linden Memorial

24 of 365 "The Clockwork Kingdom"

Tick Tock, Go see the clock

The Clockwork Kingdom is a steampunk town that floats high up in the sky. Several mechanical clocks are interspersed through the architecture, which features huge, rusted gears that rotate and loom over each pathway.

Nesto Silverfall filmed by ColeMarie Soleil

23 of 365 Artic Greenhouse

I love to find a quiet spot and watch the aurora borealis at Logan Bauer's sim Alternate Reality. He makes fabulous sculpted plants and if you join his Artic Greenhouse group you are treated to wonderful gifts. I love this sim. Really. Go.

(Sadly he is not selling the aurora borealis. I really really really want one for my sim. Sigh)

22 of 365 Basilica di San Pietro of Venice, Italy in Second Life

(click the image to fully appreciate the beauty of this Church)

visit

Escape to a remote Christmas mountain village in this holiday Winter Wonderland. You'll find ice skating, sledding, shopping, a visit with Santa Claus, nativity scene, club and the Basilica di San Pietro of Venice, Italy.

21 of 365

8th Grade English, 3rd Period

There are poems scratching at the back of my throat.

I write them in a notebook using a purple pen

that smells ever so slightly of bubble gum.

The poems speak of love and lust, and fear and fear and fear.

I am positive when I hear you whisper my name

the fear will slow, the shaking stop and the lust will thaw into trust.

Today I open the notebook and confront how little has changed.

20 of 365 Isle of Adaron

Lovely meditative sim. This shot is straight from SL with no post processing, not even crop.

Slurl to Isle of Adaron.

19 of 365 Drive In Movie!

I will bring the Popcorn

You will have to be very clever to find the movies. Trust me. They are there.

The Genius of Grace McDunnough, Salome Strangelove, Bryn Oh and Chantal Harvey

This is one of the saddest songs of all time. It is also one of my very favorite songs of all time.