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Archive for January, 2011

The old year has passed, and 2011 has come at last, opening the possibilities for change and new beginnings. Before delving into this new year, we wanted to thank all of our subscribers and faithful readers for your loyalty, commentary and support throughout this past year. We hope to continue to inspire you throughout this year with  creativity, humor,  tales of our travels and new ideas involving the gluten free lifestyle. You, our readers, motivate us and continue to make blogging a joy that we treasure. We celebrate you  and wish you and your loved ones the very best for this new year. May you be graced with blessings,  joy and insights.

As a result of this blog’s success, we have joined WordPress’ new weekly post challenge, committing ourselves to posting at least twice a week, every week throughout this year. Not an easy task, but we are up for the challenge. Hopefully….!?!

We exceeded our initial goal for 2010 for this blog and reached a viewership of over 10,000.  As you can imagine we are thrilled :-)

We just feel like dancing!

Check out our previous post for the details and a list of our most viewed posts.

Moving on,  we wanted to share some thoughts to inspire you.  During the last few days of December, 2010, we took the opportunity to visit Albuquerque’s River of Lights, a magnificent display of lights, presented every year by the local zoo and botanical gardens. It was bitter cold, our frozen fingers could barely hold on to the camera, but on the upside, we managed to get some great pictures. ;-) Thought you might enjoy a few examples of the Southwest during the holiday season. We also uploaded additional pictures to Flickr.

You know that you are in the Southwest, when you come across cacti decorated with lights. Ah, the magic of lights!

Of course, the inevitable question you are presented with in most restaurants is: Would you like red or green? Chili, that is!

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the center is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Harpe de Lumiere, photo by Georges Noblet

The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is to never stop questioning;  never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein


Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Love all around!

…..You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one.
I hope some day you’ll join us,
And the world will be as one.

John Lennon

Imagine, the possibilities are endless!

Dream big, see the possibilities, allow yourself to fail. Just pick yourself up and start again. See yourself anew!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2010. That’s about 24 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 64 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 76 posts. There were 547 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 406mb. That’s about 1 pictures per day.

The busiest day of the year was December 16th with 101 views. The most popular post that day was A Celebration of Chocolate!.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were WordPress Dashboard, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, twitter.com, and foodieblogroll.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for gluten free carrot cake cupcakes, gluten free shepherds pie recipe, gluten free shepherds pie, gluten free black forest cake, and gluten free carrot cake.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

A Celebration of Chocolate! December 2010
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2

Gluten Free Black Forest Torte (Schwarzwaelder Kirschtorte) and some Interesting Facts About the Black Forest! March 2010
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3

Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes and Some Information About Buckwheat! March 2010
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4

Gluten Free Shepherd’s Pie and Some Interesting History! March 2010
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5

Gluten Free Variation on Scottish Scones Using Chestnut Flour! March 2010
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