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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Sky View Photoshop Elements Experiments

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I'm headed for class
so I'll add Haiku when I
return home later ...

Smartfix above, Linear Burn below

Back from class I am
adding Haiku as promised
earlier today

13 different
looks at just one photograph
using Photoshop

Top left below is
the original photo
straight from camera ...

Blending modes ... filters
alter basic images
creating effects

like what you see here
playing can be fun but it's
quite time intensive

especially 'til
I gain more experience
with what each one does

Auto Levels above
Brightness 12, Contrast 100 below

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and for others participating in Thursday Thirteen,
Midweek Blues, Color Carnival,
Haiku Friday and Sky Watch Friday

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Colorful Outdoor Miscellany for those Snowed In

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Miscellaneous
photos from my colorful
world ... just for you!

I have no clue what
caused this most unusual
cloudy formation ...

I used Poster Edges on the two Ruby photos below ... just because.

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and for others participating in
Today's Flowers
Blue Monday
Mosaic Monday
My World
Ruby Tuesday
Color Carnival
Midweek Blues
Outdoor Wednesday
My Mellow Yellow post is at Sacred Ruminations

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
e.e. cummings

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Sharing Monday's Sunrise Surprise

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ALMOST

(on Thursday)
Snag this for your sidebar and/or your Color Carnival entries...

Five minutes ... no more
might have missed it if Molly
hadn't insisted

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and for others participating in Midweek Blues,
Color Carnival, (Almost) Wordless Wednesday
and Thursday Thirteen, Sky Watch and Haiku Friday
Making tamales
today at my sister's house ...
be back mañana ;-)
Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." Claus Moser

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Camera Critters, Pet Pride and Shadow Shots

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Annie a 'rescue'
visiting from Illinois ...
watched by two fur-kids

enjoying the sun
on the patio today
in the warm sunshine

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Christmas Day sunshine
enjoyed by this cat at my
sister in law's home

Straight out of the Camera

with Poster Edges

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Camera Critters, Pet Pride, & Shadow Shot Sunday

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." William James

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Molly's Adventures at Dog Beach & the Doggie Spa

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Scroll down for Thursday Thirteen

Mostly

Monday Molly played
at Dog Beach with canine friends
while I took photos

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and for others participating in

Outdoor Wednesday

Watery Wednesday

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Midweek Blues

In the afternoon
I dropped Molly off at a
local Doggie Spa ;-)

13 photographs
featuring my Molly girl ...
loyal canine friend!

Mosaic with Poster Edges

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and for others participating in
Thursday Thirteen

Small Reflections ... Smile Back
Click to see 13 Things I'm Grateful For at Sacred Ruminations

I'm celebrating my 1st Blogoversary
at Happily Retired Gal on Wednesday, November 25th.
Hope you can drop by when time permits!
How time flies ;-)

Thought for Today
"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog." Ambrose Bierce

Friday, November 13, 2009

Molly meets Ned from Syracuse, New York

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Molly made a new
friend this week ... his name is Ned
visiting all month.

Just 18 months old
tall and eager ... New York pooch
likes to run & play ;-)

Originals above ... Poster Edges in the middle

... and some random experimental tweaking below

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... for others participating in Camera Critters and Pet Pride

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"How can you live in the present and appreciate every moment? Choose to see all things lin light. You can change your life by changing your mind." Marianne Williamson

Currently ...

... I'm thankful to have encountered the 'Food Court Flash Mob Hallelujah Chorus to share here at Small Reflections. I've also shared a Beautiful Meditative Video and a delightful Random Act of Culture (that happened at Macy's) at Sacred Ruminations ... just because.

I'm also grateful that I've created a personalized 1st edition 'Labyrinth Journal' for my friend Susan. I've written a second version that I plan to publish & share with others very soon.

My sister & her husband arrived in town on Wednesday, November 17th and will be around for a few months ... so that's pretty 'kewl' too!

Remember ... you can find me sharing at Giraffe Journal and Labyrinth Journal when you don't see anything from me posted here.

Hope all's well with you and yours!
Hugs and blessings,
Virginia

FYI - My previous Gratitude Lists can be found at Happily Retired Gal, at WordPress. It is my intention to keep this 'Daily Gratitude List' in my sidebar indefinitely because I believe it makes sense to focus on what's right in our lives regularly. Click for:
2010 Lists - July, June, May, April, March, February, January
2009 Lists - December, November, October, September, August, July June, May, April, March, February, January
2008 Lists - December, November

More About Me

Click to learn ...
How I Became a Blogger

Evolution of my blogs
Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at SacredRuminations ... the site where I joined Carla's Sacred Life Project. I published daily on both sites initially, but in mid-January of 2008 I gave myself permission to cut myself some slack & rethink things. Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily here, but I'm thinking about alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

In October of 2008, I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary here at Small Reflections on the 22nd & at Sacred Ruminations on the 23rd.

I completed Blog 365 in 2008 with a total of 378 posts here at Sacred Ruminations, 234 at Sacred Ruminations, 20 at BlogRolls, Bling & Blurbs, and 30 at Happily Retired Gal for a grand total of 662 ... all in 366 days!

In 2009, my sister & her husband returned to So Cal for 4 months and I had less time to blog. Even though they're on the road again, I'm finding it challenging to recapture a daily blogging habit. Click for more specifics about this.

In October of 2009 I celebrated my 2nd Blogoversary here at Small Reflections & at Sacred Ruminations and in November of 2009 I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary at Happily Retired Gal. Little did I know what would follow when I entered this 'virtual' world.

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My Blog Blasts for Peace:
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and last June:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

My Peace Globes are below
Clicking on them will take you to the related 'Bl0g Blast' post also.
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear .... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"How you handle the situation IS the situation." Stephen Covey

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." Lao-Tzu

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"At mid-life more than any other time, we have renewed opportunity to create health by expressing our creativity fully." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot

"Things are only impossible until they're not." Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows." Ralph Waldo Emerson

More thoughts

"We have been so eager to give our children what we didn't have in life, we have neglected to give them what we did." Anyonmous

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are events in life that cannot be explained or changed. I acknowledge them, feel them, and I release the rage, guilt, loss, anger, and grief." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." Bernadette Devlin

"The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity." Edmund Burke

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." Virginia Woolf

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and their unlimited imagination." James Michener

"If you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." Henry Ford

More Thoughts ...

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do." Georgia O'Keefe

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." Richard Bach

"Telling stories causes others to remember what they have always known." Anonymous

"Character is the bridge between our beliefs and our behavior. Character is the glue of personality, the connective tissue that makes a person whole, integrated, a person of integrity." Joan Konner, journalist

"What you choose not to look at in life, rules your life." Lynn Andrews

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When a woman changes her life for the better, her entire family (whether or not she has children) generally benefits. She sets the tone. The well-being of the family and of society itself depends upon women becoming and remaining healthy. So we owe it to ourselves to put ourselves first and take the time we need to heal." Dr. Christiane Northrup

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Sky View Photoshop Elements Experiments

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Colorful Outdoor Miscellany for those Snowed In

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Sharing Monday's Sunrise Surprise

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Camera Critters, Pet Pride and Shadow Shots

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Molly's Adventures at Dog Beach & the Doggie Spa

Friday, November 13, 2009

Molly meets Ned from Syracuse, New York

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