Stones and Pebbles

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well.

I have some news for you today. After conferring with

Carolyn, I will be changing the format of the blog from the first Tuesday

in February. It will still be Tag Tuesday, but instead of being a 'closed'

blog, it will have a link up where anyone can link to us if

their tag fits the theme. If any/ all of you would like to

be part of the Design Team and make a tag to inspire

people, please get in touch with me. I am going to make this a trial

for the rest of the year, as so few have bothered joining in

lately, and hope it will work out. But I would like to thank those very loyal taggers who always join in - 

Chrissie, Wendy, Joan, Michele, and Wilma.

Next week will be the last blog week of this format.

The themes will be published again for a month in advance, and

Carolyn will still be choosing some themes for us.

I hope you will join in, and perhaps advertise the start

of the 'New' Tag Tuesday on your blogs.

And next week there will be a special surprise....

My tag this week has been digitally made. 

It shows a cairn that some people built down by the Rhine:

These are called 'stepping stones' and have been built into

many pavements in German towns to honour those

who once lived in the houses there and were imprisoned

and murdered in the Holocaust:

And this is a menhir  (standing stone) here on the street where

I live, and is the oldest part of Kaiserswerth. It almost looks like 

it has a face! Back in the Middle ages criminals being

taken to be punished had their heads banged

against the stone....Not everything in the past

was better!

Have a good week, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Valerie