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super cool

 Cinemagraph * is an image that contains within itself a living moment that allows a glimpse of time to be experienced and preserved endlessly.       Cinemagraph the fabulous creation of Kevin Burg  and Jamie Beck : from me to you   http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/                                       CHECK IT OUT!                                                                                              Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese

Vitamin D and Me

Sunscreen*  A preparation, often in the form of a cream or lotion, used to protect the skin from the ultraviolet rays of the sun. Vitamin D* A fat-soluble vitamin occurring in several forms, especially vitamin D 2 or vitamin D 3 , required for normal growth of teeth and bones, and produced in general by ultraviolet irradiation - found in milk, fish, cheese and eggs. Oreo * A good cookie; made up of two chocolate cookies with vanilla filling, can also come in double stuffed I wear sunscreen everyday rain or shine all year. That's what we've been told to do.... right?  To help prevent skin cancer, wrinkles and the like.... SUN BAD!  I wasn't always so disciplined, but for the last ten years I've been Miss SPF 55. Until a recent visit to the endocrinologist I was quite proud of this effort. I was at my Doctors office for a regular visit for my thyroid, he also checked my vitamin D levels (I must have looked pale.)

if it haint broke

Haint*  A ghost. Belief in ghosts has been common since ancient times and is reflected in folklore around the world. It is based on the notion that the spirit is separable from the body and can continue its existence after the death of the body. Ghosts are believed to inhabit the netherworld and to be capable of returning to the world of the living, appearing as living beings or in a nebulous likeness of the deceased. They are thought to be especially likely to haunt places or people connected with some strong emotion of their past life. Haint blue * is a color commonly found on window shutters, doors, and porch ceilings all over  Southeast United States. Haint blue ranges from light blue, blue-green to periwinkle.  Some  say the Gullah people are the original creators of Haint Blue.  Angry Haints cannot cross water. S0, the Gullah people  would dig a pit in the ground, fill it with lime, milk, and whatever pigments they could find, stir it all together, an