Thursday, October 2, 2008

St. Mary's Lighthouses - Pt. Lookout and Piney Point Light Houses

Here's some great pics showcasing two St. Mary's County Light Houses - the Pt. Lookout Lighthouse and Piney Point Lighthouse. The Piney Point Lighthouse is one of the oldest original lighthouses built along the Potomac. It's off of Rt. 5 just North of Great Mills.

Piney Point Lighthouse St. Mary's County Maryland PAX River/Potomac River area

Pt. Lookout Lighthouse St. Mary's County Maryland PAX River/Potomac River area

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Monday, September 29, 2008

New Bethesda MD Homes - Custom, Big, Amazing Value...

From time to time, we some some really wonderful value in new, custom family homes - in this case, the highly sought-after neighborhood of Bethesda, MD in Montgomery County. These homes are extremely competitively priced for this neighborhood, and great location - near schools, businesses and convenient to all of Metro DC.

From Ingrid Myers, Realtor - Northern Virginia, Metro DC Maryland and Southern Maryland Real Estate...

"Here are a couple of my newest, most interesting Bethesda MD (Montgomery County) New Homes. Browse these great webpages and find out more about the Bethesda MD community altogether!

5909 Melvern, Bethesda MD, Montgomery County New Home

5912 Somoma, Bethesda MD, Montgomery County New Home


Brand New Custom Seven Bedroom Home in the Wyngate Neighborhood of Bethesda, Maryland - Montgomery County
5909 Melvern Dr., Bethesda, MD

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Lexington Park, Southern Maryland Hotels get Hi-Def TV

It's finally arrived commercially in St. Mary's county, for travelers and visitors - the PAX River NAS hotels in Lexington Park, MD are getting Hi-Definition (Hi-Def) TV installed - per this announcement through Southern Maryland's Home Building and Hospitality business Cherry Cove.

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Sotterley Riverside Wine Fest

The Sotterley Riverside Wine Fest is coming up next weekend, October 4-5, Noon to 6PM.



Fabulous foods for purchase featuring such southern Maryland specialties as crab cakes, fried oysters, stuffed ham, pit roasted meats, freshly made ice cream and more.

Tours of Sotterley’s Mansion circa 1703 (fee).

Tours of Sotterley’s Colonial Revival Gardens given at no cost.

Wonderful live music both days!

Saturday, Oct. 4th:
Noon - 2 PM: The O'Neill Project
2 PM - 4 PM: Gary Rue and the Blue Crabs
4 PM - 6 PM: Diane Daly Trio

Sunday, Oct. 5th: Noon - 2 PM: Upstroke
2 PM - 4 PM: David Norris
4 PM - 6 PM: Gretchen Richie Jazz Cabaret

Wine Making and Wine Tasting demonstrations.

Artisan Vendors with fabulous hand-crafted items for purchase.

Children's games, crafts and activities.

Southern Maryland So Good will feature exhibits and great demos using
items freshly grown and harvested from our local farms and waters.

Sponsored by all the great Southern Maryland, St. Mary's County and PAX River area businesses, including the amazing Solomons Island, Southern Maryland hotel Hilton Garden Inn.

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Southern Maryland Internet Marketing

Southern Maryland Internet Marketing - Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Social Media Marketing (SMM).

What do you do when you need to find something on the Internet?

In most cases, you go to one of the major search engines and type in the term or key words that you’re looking for and then click through the results. Sometimes you might go to a "bookmarking" site or local directory/discussion forum to search. But what if the first and second pages of results don’t give you the results you were looking for?

On the other end, what do you do to attract more visitors to your southern maryland business or organization's web site? What if you have the most attractive web site and yet no one can find you? Isn't it like decorating the front window of your shop, but locating it in an alley where nobody can see it?

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a marketing strategy that helps your web site be recognized and get on the first page of leading search engine sites, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL. It is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or “algorithmic” search results for targeted key words. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search engine results pages or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site.

In today’s fast-paced internet world where a web site can be the face of a brand’s identity, having your web site be optimized for search engine compatibility is not only important, but a necessity. Without good SEO, your website is lost among thousands of other web sites on the net.

We at KME Internet Marketing can help you achieve that goal and increase your web site’s “rank” by using SEO, SEM and SMM as a cost-effective and accessible tool to increase not only your online traffic, but target your audience and give your brand a high local, regional, national or international profile.

For the DC metro area and southern maryland in particular, we offer the most comprehensive, fast-developing and professional online marketing services available - out of our local office in Ridge, MD. Read more about DC metro and Southern Maryland SEO/SEM at our blog.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

St. Mary's County Fair - Southern Maryland

Don't forget to get over to the St. Mary's County Fair this weekend!

Since 1947, the St. Mary's County Fair features fun for the entire family including children's activities, livestock competitions and exhibits, home arts, garden exhibits, arts and crafts, farm museum, carnival, horse shows, music, parade, entertainment, commercial vendors selling their wares, a wide variety of food and attractions.

Thu Sept 18 - Sun Sept 21, 2008, at the Saint Mary's County Fairgrounds.

Route 5 across from the Leonardtown High School
Just south of Leonardtown, Md.

42455 Fairgrounds Road
Leonardtown, MD 20650

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Are Southern Maryland Moms for Palin/McCain - or Obama/Biden?

Noticed this succinct post in about Palin in Virginia and here regarding Moms for Palin - are Southern Maryland Moms, Dads, Families leaning Palin or Biden?

Virginia is for Palin

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