Avatar's, Keeping things simple

I know this much. The Jacobite supporters used the white cockade on their bonnets as a symbol to support the Bonnie Prince Charlie. Supposedly, he had a white rose on his tricorn to promote his status and cause. Not sure how accurate that is, but I love white roses either way and my sis had them growing in her garden and I photographed them as I felt they would make for good photography!

New year - different avatar.

(thought I'd get away from using a Legolas one)

Big one.

The War of the Roses was a civil war in England that lasted from 1455-1487. These thirty years of warfare were even more destructive to England than the Hundred Years War had been in the previous century. (Most of the fighting in the Hundred Years War took place in France, which meant most of the military damage affected the French peasantry rather than the English. In the War of the Roses, most of the fighting occurred in England, and thus the loss of life and property was much greater.) It was a struggle between the families descended through Edward III and the families descended from Henry IV to claim the throne. The last Angevin ruler, King Richard II died without an heir. He had been overthrown and murdered by Henry IV (Henry Bolingbroke, who was of the House of Lancaster through his father John of Gaunt). Henry IV's descendants and their supporters were the Lancastrian faction. The other branch, descended from Edward IV, were associated with families in the North of England, particularly the House of York and Richard of York. They are called the Yorkist faction.


The name comes from the badges of arms worn by the two factions. The symbol of the House of York is a white rose. The symbol of the House of Lancaster is a red rose. The servants of each house wore emblems with these flowers on their liveries (servant uniforms). The actual phrase "War of the Roses" doesn't appear until Shakespeare's time, but Shakespeare does make use of this flower imagery at the end of Henry VI: Part Three and in Richard III.

Endgame:
Henry Tudor (soon to be King Henry VII), earl of Richmond, lands in Wales on August 7, 1485 to challenge Richard III for the crown. Richard moves to meet Henry's army south of the village of Market Bosworth. After the armies engage, Lord Thomas Stanley and his brother Sir William switch sides and fight for Henry. Henry defeats the Yorkist forces, Richard is killed, and Henry ushers in the rule of the house of Tudor effectively ending the Wars of the Roses.

Henry VII spends the next two years wiping out any other claimants to the throne.

This is a cute picture of my nieces and nephew. They are the apples of their Uncle Mike's eye ...

Mike! that is so beautiful and precious! I am sure you are very proud of each and every one of t hem.

I am so many desk tops going on now it is ridiculous. I will post one or two of the ones I am using now in a day or two.

changed mine - just for fun!

Hey, JP! Pretty cool avatar! I really love it!

Nice, JP.

How does one go about importing a picture to use as an avatar?

Select "my account" from the top of the main page. One the menu bar to the left you will see "personal profile", and under that "avatar settings." Select that and you will see the various options for selecting, linking to, or uploading your avatar. Hope this helps.

I tried it, now a test to see if it worked.

Looks like it worked.
Now for a !

Very nice...

Every now and then, I think about changing mine, but then I see those three cute little faces looking at me and I just can't bring myself to do it ...

Avatar = to identify a person or thing

Avatar = recognition of a person or thing

*just put on a mask if you want to play Zorro!

I changed my avatar when I became a founding member. I have been debating whether I want to put a picture for it, or not!! I might ry it just for the #$@!! of it!!!! we'll see, or you will see!!!

time for a