3~11~16 My Favorite Backroad Pond

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.

 It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

~Ashley Montagu

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Shadowshot Sunday2

Icey Waters

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Lightroom to Photoshop and Back...Sometimes

Well, here it is...my first try at editing in Lightroom, taking the pictures into Photoshop Elements and doing some tweaking and texture work, and then back to Lightroom and publishing. All I can say is it has taken me hours and hours to start to figure this thing out...lots of wonderful video lessons to view over and over again, lots of note taking, lots of trial and error, and LOTS of eyestrain and quite a few headaches.  Oh, my goodness, is it hard...but so much fun. Three more lessons to go before the end of the class.

 Where Will All My Goldfish Go?

 Pile of Chain Link at Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia

 Cobblestone Street at Civil War Museum ~ Black and White

Cobblestone Street in Color with Texture Added

My Orchids Are Still Blooming

To Drink or Not to Drink

Bud says the water from that pipe  is OK, but I continue to drink only from my NON-PLASTIC water bottle.

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Pond on Turkey Hill

These pictures were taken a few minutes after 7:00 this morning on my way to work. It was a very dreary morning before the sun was out.

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

~Thomas Merton

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