Two Things, One Important:

This boat going down the main road in my town is to remind everyone of the "My Town" shoot out on Friday. Click on photo to enlarge.

The boat was built by Chesapeake Boat Builders in Crisfield. It was on its way to be tested before being captained from Crisfield to its new home in the Virgin Island. Around here we are used to sights like this. But I swear, I am going to stowaway in one their boats one day.



The Important Thing: Yes. It is almost Friday again. That means participating bloggers will be highlighting what they like about their towns.

The purpose of our Friday shoot outs? To show off what's cool about our towns using a weekly theme chosen by one of our bloggers. Not only do our weekly shoot outs give everyone a chance to stroll through other blogger's towns, it also gives perspective visitors ideas on what to do and see when they visit.

With vacation season coming up, someone might run upon our shoot out sites and pick a town to vacation in. Heck, someone might decided to go around and visit all of us, and rate us, and give us prizes, and free trips to visit other bloggers; and Oprah will invite us all on her show to meet each other. OK. So I carried away. But stranger things have happened.

This week's subject, courtesy of GingerV: Main Street.

Shoot mailboxes, people, flower boxes, traffic, red lights; storefronts, restaurants, whatever you like or find interesting about your town square or city block. I think GingerV meant the 4 corners of your main street, but some people don't have 4 corners, and some people don't have a Main Street.

The rules are, "No rules." I think we have all done great jobs improvising when needed.

A few of you jumped in last week at the last minute and some participants got lost.
Anyone who is planning on participating, please send me a quick post at this post and let everyone know who you are and where you are. We are all trying to come up with some way to acknowledge everyone.

Example: I am Patty in Crisfield, MD and my blog link is: http://crisfieldnews.blogspot.com.

You can give your screen name, your user name or whatever, but we need to know what town you are in.

Everyone is welcome to join out shoot outs. The more the merrier!

People like Si and Butler and Bagman are on vacation, so not sure if they will participate this week.

The number of people who participate seems to be growing, so it is important to get all of you listed, and it is important for everyone to take time to stroll around our newcomer's towns.

I am not sure who is picking next week's assignment. Do you know, Reggie Girl? We need to get it posted.

Second Thing: The boat photos are for Capt. Dave at Hooper's Island. He visited my blog today for the first time. He owns a boat built by Chesapeake Boat Builders in Crisfield. I took the above photo as a feature shot for my paper several months ago, so I guess it it safe to use it here. The below photo I took yesterday from the city dock.

Click on photo to enlarge.

Chesapeake Boat Builders does know how to make boats, don't they? True craftsmanship!

Here is a better shot of that boat on land. I took the photo in February. Anyone around the Baltimore Harbor will soon be able to see it.