A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day...06-27-03..."Oh, The State I'm In!" ~ Pippin's Maryland

Mama_Bear and Pippin

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Fasten your seatbelts and hang on, folks. Pippin is taking us on a whirlwind tour of Maryland.

As we take in the sights and sounds, and the flora and fauna, let's listen to Pippin's own words as she proudly tells us about her 'Finest' state.....

"Maryland is one of the original 13 colonies, having been founded in 1634 by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore. It was the 7th colony to ratify the constitution, thus becoming our 7th state in 1789."

The Maryland state flag contains the family crests of the Calvert and the Crossland families. The black and gold representing the family of the 2nd Lord Baltimore.

"Maryland is richly steeped in history and is a great place to visit, whether it’s to find the perfect vacation spot or if you are interested in discovering America's roots. As I have said before, Maryland is a diverse state ~ an 'America in miniature'.

We have the beautiful Catoctin Mountains southwest of Baltimore, site of the Camp David Presidential retreat, and we have many lakes and rivers where fishing is the main sport activity. If you like boating, there’s the Chesapeake Bay and it’s tributaries. Every February, in Annapolis, the state capitol, they have a boat show at the Annapolis harbor where the latest in recreational boats are shown."

Annapolis Harbor

Annapolis is also home of the U.S. Naval Academy.
GO NAVY!!

"Like seafood? Maryland is famous for it’s seafood. In Baltimore we have the world’s famous Lexington Market, the oldest continuing marketplace in the country! Lexington Market started out as an open-air market for fishermen and other merchants to display and sell their goods in Baltimore City in 1789."


Lexington Market - of days gone by.

"We have Phillips seafood restaurant, with it’s really out of this world baseball crab cakes located at Lexington Market. Speaking of crab cakes, what about our famous steamed crabs and cold beer!"

"If you are into sports we have Baseball, Football, Soccer, Lacrosse, and even Jousting (I kid you not). Every year, September thru October, we have the Renaissance Festival in southern Anne Arundel County, where there is Jousting and feasting and fun 'Elizabethan style'!"

"We have our baseball team, the "Orioles" and Camden Yards, our new ballpark, built in the early 1990’s on the grounds of the old Camden train station. The main building still stands. This is must see (as well as seeing an Orioles game.) For football lovers, we have Ravens stadium just a mile from Camden Yards. The Ravens were named for Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Raven”."



"Want to spend some time at the ocean? Take a trip across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Ocean City. There are condos to rent for the summer and shops to look through as well as the famous boardwalk and fantastic beaches.


Boardwalk Cam - Downtown Ocean City

I hope I’ve managed to whet your appetite and have made you curious enough to come to my state and find out why I’m so proud to be a Marylander. There is so much more to Maryland than meets the eye."

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And, finally........

Now, as we thank our tour guide, Pippin, for introducing us to her beautiful state, why don't we all sing a rousting chorus of......
"Maryland, My Maryland".

Thou wilt not cower in the dust,
Maryland! my Maryland!
Thy gleaming sword shall never rust,
Maryland! my Maryland!
Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's war-like thrust,
And all thy slumb'rers with the just,
Maryland! my Maryland!


Thank you all for coming. Hope to see you again when we tour another Finest state in this great land of ours. ~Mama_Bear

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[Pippin]

Good Morning!

I try! :O)

[MJY1288]

Maryland Bump

[Billie]

Good morning, you two! What a pretty and colorful introduction to Maryland today! So how much room do you have, Pip? :) You just might have made Maryland 'the' place for FReepers to visit!

Thank you both for the tour - it truly sounds like a wonderful place to visit.

Lori, I love these state tours you're providing, and the fact that they're not alphabetical means we never know when our 'own' state is up for review! Thanks, Sistah, for your second feature presentation in one week. LOL

Do bluebirds and orioles get along? :)

[Billie]

Good morning to FR's Finest resident florist. :)

[Billie]

Hi, there! You keep letting someone beat you to your spot. :)

[dansangel]

What a beautiful presentation ((((((((Mama_Bear))))))))))

You illustrated ((((((((Pippin))))))))'s description of her beloved homes state wonderfully.

It's easy to see you are proud of your beloved Maryland, Pippin. Great job in being our tour guide for the day!

Back to w-o-r-k (ugh) then a Dr. appointment later, so I may not be able to get back until this evening. Have a great FRiday! :-)

[Billie]

THERE'S that cup!! Hi, Rus - great to see you again. :)

[dansangel]

(((((((Billie)))))))

Hit 'n run ***HUGS*** sistah!

[JustAmy]

How about blue flowers for BillieBlue?

[Billie]

Morning, Gail - your post reminds me I have toast in the toaster that I forgot about! Biscuit and gravy it's NOT! :)

[Calpernia]

That is pretty!

[JustAmy]

"That is pretty! "

Thank You. I have stolen borrowed some that are not quite as nice.

[Calpernia]

I bet you guessed I would do this :)

Click your bluebird Billie :)

[Billie]

I thought of you last night (and your chirping birds from the other day) before going to bed, we were flipping the channels between Letterman and Leno, and caught the top three winning teams of a bird calling contest! The third place winners were 3 girls (about to be juniors in high school), and their sound I think was the bluejay. Then they had the second place winners (they were 3 college age boys), and their sound was some exotic bird I'd never heard of, and finally the first place winners were 2 boys (who were going to be high school juniors, too) - again some exotic bird. But with all three teams, if you closed your eyes, it was uncanny how much they sounded like real birds!

[Diver Dave]

Morning FR's Finest... hostesses. And a special good morning to our tour guide, Ms. Pippin.

You've got a nice neighborhood, Pip.

[Billie]

Well, that's neat, f'stix - I didn't get to click on them yesterday, and the first time I clicked on both the coffee cup and the donuts, I got nothing - then I saw that my Pop-up monitor was blocking your site index. Turned that off, and voila! there it was!

[Billie]

Thanks, dansy girl! One good hug deserves another!

(((((((((Sistah)))))))))

[Billie]

Well, those blue flowers are so pretty! (Cornflower blue? - your text is exactly the same shade of blue, but you always do that!) Thank you, JustFRiend!

[Billie]

I bet you guessed I would do this :)

Nope, I didn't! (oh, okay, maybe I did! LOL)

I like it though!

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks Billie J
It's an idea I came up with a while back. Now that things are "getting somewhat back to normal" around here, I'll be posting once again. I have some other ideas for graphic posts that I shall be trying out in the near future also.
Take care
God Bless