I recently spent a morning visiting Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountain National Park to see the autumn colors. The scenery was absolutely spectacular. I couldn’t have asked for a prettier day, nicer weather or more glorious colors on the trees. I have posted some photos on Flickr. Although, they really don’t do justice to the incredible scenery.
Here’s a teaser from the photoset:
This is a photo of my grandfather’s gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, taken during Memorial Day weekend 2002. He served our country through World War II, Korea, and Vietnam until his death in 1962.
I also want to note my brothers’ service in the United States Marine Corps, which celebrated its 230th birthday yesterday. And that of my father-in-law, who served in the United States Navy and Naval Reserves. I also want to include my friend Johnny, who just returned a couple of weeks ago from a year long tour-of-duty in Iraq. Thanks for your service.
Please remember to take time today and thank any veterans you know for their service. It is by such service and sacrifice that we and the freedoms we hold dear are protected. To those who have served, both past and present, I want to say thank you for your time and commitment in protecting our nation and on behalf of the cause of freedom and liberty.
LaShawn Barber also has lots of links to other bloggers observing Veterans Day.
This is a repost with some additions from Veterans Day last year.
Today is the 230th birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
Congratulations to all Marines, past and present, and thank you for your service.
Semper Fi
Whew! The funkyness should be over now.
I still have a few loose ends to tie up, but for the most part the redesign is done. I have worked out all the quirks I could find. If you notice anything amiss, please let me know.
And a special greeting from my fellow CSS Rebooters who are visiting. I can’t wait to browse and look at some of the other designs.
A few notes about the redesign. I really started with the goal of transforming my old site’s fixed-width layout into an elastic one, which once I heard about the CSS Reboot turned into a full scale redesign. I took all of the header photographs during my various travels. One of my loose ends is to build some kind of AJAX-y widget to let visitors surf through the photos and to display some information about them, like the date of the photo and the location or identity of the subject.
Plus, while I was redoing things, I also rebooted my linkblog, Excursions, which was one of the more significant changes. I was using a second install of WordPress to run it, but I discovered a nifty plugin called wp-recent-links. A bit of hacking later, and I had a nice solution to eliminate one extra interface for posting.
jQuery documentation
JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format
John Resig's port of a Quicksilver-style Live Search using the functional style that jQuery promotes
Alternate techinque for using jQuery for animated menus
Using jQuery and CSS sprites for animated standards based menus
Tips on using relative and absolute positioning
