Arte & Pico Award

I was delighted and honoured to recieve this award from Geoffrey Philp , a Jamaican poet who blogs about the literature of the Carribean and South Florida! The rules are:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogger community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog so everyone can visit.

3) Each award-winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4) The award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to link to the“Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) To show these rules.

NOTE: If the awarded blog owners wish to pass the torch to five others please go to http://arteypico.blogspot.com/and read the rules.

I've seen several posts recently about how hard it is to pass on awards because you don't want to leave people feeling left out or overlooked and I agree!. But on the other hand it's an opportunity to point out some favourite blogs that people aren't necessarily aware of and to encourage people to visit them! It's always a difficult choice, and this time I'm going to mix it up a bit, rather than concentrating on environmental and crafty blogs:

A Wildlife Gardener at Our Little Corner of Paradise for these photos of bees and flowers

PaulS at the shapeshifting Gingatao for constantly doing such wonderful things with words that I never know what to say in the comments section

Alfonso at Paraisos en Obras for making magic with words and for fooling me into thinking I can understand Spanish (this blog is translated into English, so no excuses for not visiting!)

Mistral at Una Teiera per Amica, for sharing such beautiful words and music and for feeding my addiction to Italian.

And the fifth? well you can all share it, because it really is difficult to choose and there really are so many wonderful blogs out there!