February 5 , 2016 ~ Love Special Delivery

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A Girl’s Pictorial Journal of Years Past

Worn and Torn but Still Lives

It has been several years since I have tried to use textures, but I’ve decided it is time to reteach myself. This is my first attempt, and it certainly leaves a lot to be desired. Still, I have to start somewhere. This album belonged to my children’ father’s mother. It is filled with pictures, newspaper articles, and notes from her friends spanning from high school through college. It is truly a treasure.

"Tonight, as I looked out my window

At the snowflakes, lovely and white,

I thought of the days of my childhood

Long past, all so happy and bright,”

~Gertrude TooledBuckingham, “The First Show of the Season” (1940s)

This post is linked with Little Things Thursdays over at Kim’s blog, Little by Little
and 
NF DAM ~ Digital Art Meme

The Final Chapter of a Life as I Know It ~ 9-11~012

 MY WORLD SINCE AGE 20
SCHOOL TEACHER

Our Last Year Together

Rockbridge Middle School Is Closing 6-2013

Where we will all go no one knows!

Left to Right: 

Joanna~ Librarian and Daughter of a Minister

Megan, English 7 Teacher and a Minister's Wife

Genie (moi)...Matriarch of the School at 73

Gretchen ~ Science 7 Teacher ~ I taught her back in sixth grade.

Rita ~ Guidance Counsellor and Daughter of a Minister

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." ~ John Cotton Dana
"A teacher afects eternity; he can never tell when his influence stops." ~ Horace Mann
"A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own images." ~ Unknown

This post is linked with:
Our World Tuesday
 Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesdays

Beauty Is All Around Us If We Will Just Look ~ 9-10-12

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

~William Shakespeare

This post is linked with Wordless Wednesday.

Another Morning Sunrise ~ 9-5-12

Highland Belle Track at Start of Sunrise ~ 9-5-12

I-81 ~ 9-5-2012

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
~Vladimir Nabokov

Drooping Sunflowers ~ 9-4-12

I am going to go back to trying to post a picture a day. Last year I tried, but gave up. If at once I don't succeed, I need to persevere and try, try again. So, here I go!

Saying Goodbye is So Sad

"How lucky I am to have something that makes 
saying goodbye so hard."
~Corol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, "Annie"


This post is linked with NatureFootsteps Blo-Ma.

Genie's Favorite Hat~A Vintage Spinning Spool~Dogwood Blooms

After a two month break from blogging and working with Kim's textures, I feel like I am starting all over from scratch. For this still life I used 2 layers of Kim's "written" texture and a layer mask. It's a beginning, but I have a long ways to go to catch back up to where I was before taking my sabbatical in June. 

This post is linked Texture Tuesday over at Kim Klassen's Cafe.

Pipe with Dogwood Blooms

"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of  proportion to their size.”  
                                         ~Gertrude S. Wister

This post is linked with Lisa Gordon’s The Creative Exchange.

Start Your Week with Tulips

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers 
Iwhere I can walk undisturbed." 

~Walt Whitman

This post is linked with:

Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday
I Heart Macro