My Love of Pink

When I’m Down Pink Uplifts Me 

“The Possible’s slow fuses is lit 
By the Imagination."
~Emily Dickinson

NF DAM~ Digital Art
Wordless Wednesday
Little Things Thursday
Six Word Saturday

A Tulip Doesn't Strive to Impress Anyone

W00-HOO ~ ANOTHER SNOW DAY WITH NO SNOW

This is my world right how: eating, sleeping, working, and spending lots and lot of time on my eCourse. I am having oodles of fun, but there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day for me. These are pictures taken with my 50mm in my new white room Buddy painted for me for my 74th. I am such a happy camper. At the moment we are studying DOF and light. These pictures were taken on February 22, 2013.

“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.”

~Marianne Williamson

This post is linked with Our World Tuesday, Texture Tuesday,  and NF Blo-Ma.

The Journey Begins

 My computer is FINALLY back up and running, but it is still a bit of a mess, and it's gonna be a while before it is working the way I want it to operate.  This whole experience has drained my "computer patience" so I'm taking it one little step at a time. Yes, I am taking another of Kim Klassen's classes called "Beyond, Beyond." Our first assignment was to take 10 pictures of one subject without moving that subject and to keep a journal of the nit-picky mundane things we do each day looking at them from a different point of view. My "mundane" choice for my journal was cleaning of the  stove and oven each night ( it turned into something really interesting),  and my "choice of photos" was this one with my glasses, my journal, and the unicycle. Once I finished taking the pictures, I was to choose a favorite and post it. I was experimenting with depth of field so the blur in the photo made me happy. Hope all of you are well. I've missed your photos these past weeks. Surely, this is the LAST time I self-destruct my computer. 3 times in 12 months are enough for a lifetime! I really do think I bought a lemon this time. Thanks again for all of your suggestions and encouragement. There really is comfort in numbers when it's coming to the crashing of one's computer. I now have a portable external hard drive designated to the MacBook Pro and have ordered another. From everything I have read, I now know I need to have a back up for the back up. 

HAPPY OUR WORLD TUESDAY TO ALL OF YOU:-)

Our World Tuesday

A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose

Genie LOVES her roses be they cut or on the bush...especially pink ones!

This post is linked with:

NatureFootstep Blo-Ma.

Weekend Flowers on Friday

and

Today's Flowers.

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.

I Finally Found a White Pitcher

My Buy of the Week
Local Antique Mall...aka Local Flea Market  ~ $5.00

This post is linked with Texture Thursday
and Wordy Wordless Wednesday.

Genie’s New Still Life Treasures

Neither of the cameras works, but they surely are fun to look at and to photograph. I had a Brownie just like this one when I was a little girl.

This post is linked with Texture Thursday
and Vintage Thingy Thursday.

Some Vintage Treasures on Rednesday

Some of Genie’s Household Treasures

The hand beater and rolling pin were my mother’s.

The rooster pot was a Christmas gift from a special friend
and fellow teacher. 

This post is linked with Vintage Thingy Thursday at Colorado Lady and Rednesday over at Sue Loves Cherries

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

Always Dream

This post is a part of Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesdays.

We were to use pink in our pictures.

Memories of Charleston Girl’s Week

This post is linked with “Beyond Layers” 

Day #4 ~ Blue

Pretty and Pink

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”

~Thomas Carlyle

This post is linked with “Beyond Layers.”
Day 3 ~ Pink

Bloom Where You Are Planted

"I'd rather have roses on my table 
than diamonds on my neck."

 ~Emma Goldman


This post is linked with “Beyond Layers.” Monday’s color this week was green. I am a wee bit late, but here it is.

Always Be a Dreamer

"Dreams are the seedlings of reality."

~Napoleon Hill

"Memory...is the diary that we all carry

 around with us."

~Oscar Wilde

This post is linked with "The Creative Exchange.”

Daily Photo ~ Texture Tuesday ~ 7-27-11

Experimentation with Texture and Adjustments

 For a long time, I have been wanting to learn how to shoot still life photos against a white background. Yesterday I finally found an old and heavy wooden box with oval openings on the sides for gripping at our local “antique” mall ($8.00). From there I went straight to Wally World, picked up a can of white paint for $3.00,  two 50 cent foam brushes, drove home, and gave the box a single coat. Now the fun has begins.

Our prompt from Kim this week was “DREAM.” Well, it has been my dream for ages to learn how to use textures to enhance my pictures. I have taken two of Kim’s classes, have her recipe book, subscribed to her kitchen, but I am still struggling with the technique. For this shot I used her “frosted” texture in conjunction with the CoffeeShop Vintage Frame. 

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“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope; 
And out of hope, progress.” 

~Bruce Barton (August 1886-July 1967)


This post is linked with Kim Klassen’s Texture Tusdays.

daily Photo ~ 4-13-11

springtime is here


It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:  when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
  ~Charles Dickens