dino from sth Gippsland

for your door, for the altar and friends and relatives to spend New Year's day, all I wish for you!

Hi Dino, was just checking the 'guess the date' for Lauren's baby and noticed that your daughter and I have the same birthday! My niece too. I always tell my niece she'll have to pick another one as that date is taken and I had it first...

Dino, please give Jasmine a big cuddle from her cyber Aunty Gail next time you see her.
Here's a Choc Mud for us all to share (no calories, best kind!).

Jasmine, hope your day is wonderful in every way.

Hi, dino! I have very pleasant and peaceful thoughts. Along with those thoughts, I would like to send a message for a very to your granddaughter Jasmine. I hope she gets a bite or two of cake and some wonderful presents! Jasmine!

Dino, Lovely photos, lovely Jasmine & Lucy.
And best of all "The Mohawk"! I'd rather look at it than have it around. Bet he's proud of it!!!!

Wonderful macros, Dino. I love the tea trees, too. Thanks for the encouragement about the sudoku! It'll be quite a while before I turn the timer on even if it's only for me!

Dino, a quick thank you for the birthday greetings. Trying to get them all done before we fly to Melbourne tommow and the site being down did not help.

Love and best wishes to Ecie, praying for a speedy recovery.

My thoughts and prayers are with you....

Hello Dino - I am very sorry to hear about your friend's accident. I thoughts and prayers are with her for a full recovery.

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Dino, thoughts and prayers for your friend for now and also for the months ahead as she recovers and also for all the treatment she will need in the future.
Our prayers also for all the medical staff that are so dedicated in their treatment of all the people who need them

Dino, so sorry to hear about your friend Ecie, I have left a message on the bulletin board. Take care and I hope she has a speedy recovery xx

Dino, what a terrible accident. My thoughts are with you and Ecie and my best wishes to her for a full and speedy recovery.xxx

Ah, Dino, you must let go and meditate. Don't let misery overtake you. Remember the eightfold path, one of them is the right thoughts. Be comforted that friends send their wishes for your hurt friends. I'm sending a lot of cyberhugs for you and my wishes for calm to enter your heart. Smile when you see Ecie. She needs that bright ray of love through the haze of pain. Give her something to smile over. She'll remember it!

Dino, don't let the bad thoughts get a hold, stay positive. You have taught me to open my mind and think of others. If our thoughts go into a kind of collective one mind, we must try to only project bright and cheerful pictures so that those in need can take solace from the happiness we have added.

Yes, I had seen the photos of Ecie and her family. It made it easier to know who I was sending my healing thoughts to. I am so pleased she has been moved 'down' a stage to a less intensive area. These are all positive signs.
Bon voyage, my friend. Is it for a conference you are going?
All the best while you are away, I look forward to chatting when you return.
Keep smiling,
Gail

Oh Dino, Thank you so much for the update. I'm so happy to hear that things are looking up. I will most certainly keep the prayers going for continued healing and for all who are in need of comfort or other blessings. Peace, my friend.

Dino, you're further down that path more than anyone I know! I've been trying to start my meditation while driving home after a trying day, when I feel I'm not getting to a child or to his/her parents. I know it sounds dangerous but I take in more of my surrounding. In noticing for potential hazardous situation and not thinking of anything else, I found more beauties like a tiny flower shop hidden beside more prominent buildings, the garden around a shopping mall! I come home happier and calm. I hope to go to Australia when I retire. When I do, I'd like to visit you and discuss more about Buddhism and see it through your eyes. In the mean time let's have this cup of tea

Diino, thank you for visiting my page & repeating the website for Ecie. I had forgotten to bookmark it & had no idea what day to go back to on the Sudoku site to find it in comments. It's good that you now have it posted on your page so others smarter than me will be able to find it here!!! I'm so glad William posted those pictures of Ecie. She looks like a warm & wonderful person. I left a note on the message board to tell him that & to let him know that I think he writes so well in his blogs. He must be a very intelligent, sensitive & caring person. I feel I am learning a lot about Buddhism through you & Ecie & him which is helping me prepare for a trip to China & Tibet in May. I hope that your beliefs & practices will help you & your friends deal with this horrible tragedy.

Dino thank you for visiting. I have been following Ecie's recovery and look every day to see how well she is improving. The body is a marvellous organ, capable of many geat things. Take care xx

Dino: I posted this a long time ago, and thought it might be of interest...

to SP from Canberra From Ian/Boston

SP: In response to your question, I posted this comment yesterday on hard, but with this picture, I can't resist...This is exactly the spot I was talking about. (There are several like it as you go up Mt. Tamalpais.)

I did a lot of business entertaining when I lived just north of San Francisco (Mill Valley).

Depending on how much time my guests/clients had, I would schedule various tours. If all you've got is a couple of hours, you can visit Muir Woods, and go up Mt. Talampais, stopping at the most-photgraphed view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the city of San Francisco itself.

If you have a half day, continue on to Point Reyes National Seashore and see the coast and the Tule Elk (google both of them). A full day lets you go up to Bodega Bay, where Hitchcock's ''The Birds'' was filmed. If you have more time, stay there overnight and go over the mountains to the wine country the next day; use the Silverado Trail, but don't overlook Sonoma, less visited than Napa Valley.

If five days is available, go back south of the city and head down to Salinas (John Steinbeck territory) and over to the coast and spend the night in Cambria. Come back up to the city through Big Sur, Monterey and Carmel.

Those two coastal-inland loops always found favor, with my guests taking many pictures and talking about it for years after.
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Dino, have a great trip. Prayers that it all goes safely, and still thinking of your friends.

Thoughts and prayers for Ecie. Have a safe and enlightening journey to the US Dino. Have you travelled there before?

Hi Dino have a wonderful time in the US. "Talk" to you when you're back!

Safe Travels Dino..

Oh Dino, I tried to send you a private message but the site won't let me. I am flying into Santa Cruz, got in touch with Ven. Hopefully I will see you on the 16th! E-mail me so I can tell you when.

Dino, hope all is going well for you in America.
I look forward to your return.

Hi Dino. I was going to ask you how Ecie was doing, but I just noticed that you are here in the USA. Hope you have a wonderful visit and accomplish all you have come here to do and more.
I will check back with you later about Ecie.

Hi Dino - How is your friend, Ecie, doing? I hope this finds you well, also. Have a great day.

Hi Dino - Thanks for your reply. I hope you are enjoying your visit here in the U.S. and I am glad your friend it doing better.

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Dear DINO.
Iam very pleased to stop by you page to say HELLO and enjoy myself with your beautiful photos.
Hope you are very well.
My best wishes to all of you and have a very nice time.

Dear Dino, nothing like big, sloppy, doggy kisses from Merlin - I am cheered up.
Welcome home, I hope Ecie is doing well, I think she has a long road ahead of her. I also think her husband's writing is fantastic and well worth a book.

Dino, just dropped by to look at your latest photos. You certainly have an eye for the unusual and I have enjoyed seeing your trip and your family. Jasmine is a gorgeous little girl.
Take care (

(Glad you enjoyed my youtube)

Hello Dino. I'm sure you are glad to be back home, but have you gotten over the jet lag yet? I have just quickly checked out your photos, but I will come back and post some comments. I'm glad you got to see more then just the 'little boxes' while you visited. What was your overall impression of your short trip to the US? Glad to hear that Ecie is making progress. Cheers! ...CG

Thank you dino, for the birthday greetings!
What a treat to celebrate with my Sudokuland friends!

Hi dino...Welcome back. I'm glad you had a good trip to our country and got to meet Shosho and Keith. If you are ever on the east coast of the U.S, I'd like to get to meet you also. I enjoyed your gallery pictures, especially those of Jasmine...she's a real cutie.
I checked on Ecie while visiting you and I'm so glad to read of such improvement in her condition. Her hubby does a marvelous job with his blog. I do hope her outcome from her latest surgery has the same positive results as the others did. I will continue to include all of you in my prayers.

I'm glad, sniff, sniff, that you're back, sniff sniff, safely at home sniff sniff. I don't miss sniff sniff you sniff sniff, really. I guess I must make a trip to Australia soon. I will be retiring in four years, so I'll be able to come ("Oh no, oh no must brace the country, sound the alarm!) . Hey I heard that!
Take care and think of me occasionally (that ought to give you a good laugh now and again).