About 2 years ago, I started a Freecycle Group here in my hometown area of Lynchburg, Virginia. Freecycle is a great concept where people offer up items that they no longer have need for but still have value and other people get them for free. Thus helping to keep items out of landfills and helping people to stretch their pennies further.  If you would like to know if there is a Freecycle Group in your area or if you might want to start one, here is the website.

While I was owner of the local Freecycle list (I gave it up because I had too much to do and not enough time), one of the members emailed me and told me that he had put a link to it on his blog Lynchburg, Virginia. Bob and I emailed back and forth a couple of times about ways to promote Lynchburg Freecycle and then Bob wrote and asked me if I would become a contributor to his blog. I agreed and it was a heck of a lot of fun. Bob's blog (we always thought of it as his, even though eventually we ended up with several writers) ended up ranking in the top 50,000 of all blogs. Considering that there were a few million, that was an amazing achievement to reach that status in about 6 months time. But then the extra writers started drifting away. Too many other commitments mostly and even Bob grew tired of the amount of effort the blog required and a new hobby really took his interest. That hobby was photography.

Bob has taken some amazing photographs and you can see them here at his flickr account. Recently he has culled flicker.com for some of the most amazing photos out there and turned them into a slide show. Go by and check them out when you have 5 or 10 minutes to be amazed at the beauty of the world around and at the talented people who capture it for us to enjoy.