Happy Halloween from Ms Kitty and Me

Make Time for Small Reflections
Color Carnival is in the next post

A 'spooky' reprise
of last week's mosaic here
at Small Reflections

Glowing Edges above and
Solarize below

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and others participating in
Camera Critters
and Pet Pride

Wishing you a most
Happy Halloween today ...
enjoy each moment ;--)

Watch out for witches,
ghosts and goblins ... ghoulies too!
If you've not been BOO'd

click the link below
for Halloween Fun and see
what it's all about!

If you haven't seen
these witches before you might
want to click below

if you have the time ...
see the 'emailed Halloween
card' including them.

Please be safe tonight
if you 'trick or treating' go ...
Happy Halloween!

Small Reflections ... Smile Back
If you're on Daylight Savings Time
remember to change your clocks
to 'Fall back' Saturday night.

Thought for Today
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare

More Mosaics ... just because

Make Time for Small Reflections
Watery Wednesday is in the next post
Scroll down for Color Carnival

13 Sky Views from

my sister in Oregon

RV traveling

Collaboration..

I create the mosaics

then share on my blogs.

Accented Edges
applied to this mosaic ...
then it's Solarized

See the original at Happily Retired Gal
Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in

Thursday Thirteen
Haiku Friday and SkyWatch this week.

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in
Color Carnival

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams." Les Brown

Almost Wordless Watery Wednesday

Make Time for Small Reflections

Mostly

More photographs from
my sister the Oregon ...
RV traveling

Coastal views in Oregon
near Yaquima Head

Until embiggened
dif'rences seem minimal ...
Click and you will see!

Original - tweaked a bit


Dry Brush


Original - tweaked a bit


Paint Daubs


Original - tweaked a bit


Paint Daubs

Click to embiggen for better viewing
... and for others participating in

Watery Wednesday

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Midweek Blues
Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe

Ruby Red Rose Bud

Make Time for Small Reflections
Mosaic Monday is in the next post

A lovely rose bud
in my neighbor's yard ... Next week
I'll share it opened

(Original is above)

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in Ruby Tuesday

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." Napoleon Hill

Ms Kitty Relaxes around the Front Patio ...

Make Time for Small Reflections

Everybody loves
my blue Adirondack chairs
on my patio ;--)

I worry about
Ms Kitty this time of year
people do strange things

to and with black cats ...
thus far she has managed to
remain safe from harm.

Hopefully she'll do
fine again this year and be
healthy and happy.

Originals - straight out of the camera


Accented Edges


Colored Pencil


Paint Daubs


Poster Edges


Polar Coordinates


Pinch

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and for others participating in
Camera Critters
Pet Pride
Blue Monday and Mosaic Monday

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Please accept this gift as a token of our appreciation
for stopping by and commenting ;--)


Thanks to everyone
who dropped by to celebrate
Blogoversaries

for my second year
at Sacred Ruminations
and Small Reflections.

If you missed them and
have the time just click below ...
Have a lovely day!

T-13 Celebrating my Second Blogoversary
here at Small Reflections and/or
Sky Watch - Celebrating my 2nd Blogoversary
at Sacred Ruminations

I've left two awards
featuring Ms Kitty and
Molly ... just because.
Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween." Erma Bombeck

T-13 ... Celebrating my SECOND Blogoversary!

Make Time for Small Reflections
Watery Outdoor Wednesday is in the next post
Scroll down for Thursday Thirteen
Color Carnival & Haiku Friday

Who knew how much fun
blogging would be way back when
a friend encouraged

me to create my
first site in October of
2007?

Celebrating here
today ... this post brings me to
six hundred twenty

Small Reflections posts!
Tomorrow I'll celebrate
on my second blog

where I have published
four hundred seventy-three
times as of right now

for a total of
One thousand fifty-seven!
Amazing enough ...

yet that is not all
for I have two other blogs
created later,

one to share awards
and the other to
learn to use WordPress.

Once upon a time
my posts contained many words
but more recently

I share photographs
and mosaics mostly with
a bit of Haiku.

Here's a memento
for all those who visit and
leave us a comment!

Please accept this gift as a token of our appreciation
for stopping by and commenting ;--)

Reflecting
on What I've Learned
in the past two years as a Blogger

1. Looking back, I'm amazed at how far I've come ... how much I've learned along the way.

2. I'm grateful to those who found me early and encouraged me with comments and assistance when I encountered problems.

3. For another T-13 this week at Happily Retired Gal, I've shared once again reasons why I blog as a response to acknowledging the lovely Nemo's Award shared by Alice Audrey of Alice's Restaurant.

4. In addition to links to my other blogs, over time I've created sidebar category links to different types of posts to make it simpler for visitors to find things of interest.

5. I've also added a handy 'search widget' to each blog.

6. Each post contains 'labels' at the bottom and clicking there sorts my posts for easy viewing too.

7. I've enjoyed keeping a Gratitude List in my sidebar here at Small Reflections for the past year. Clicking on the link above takes you to my lists created from November of 2008 to September of 2009.

8. Creating & sharing mosaics of my own photos has been fun as my Photoshop Elements knowledge & skills have evolved over time, but more recently I've enjoyed using photographs from my sister who has been traveling the USA and Canada in and RV with her husband for the past 5 years.

9. Sharing Quotes is something I used to do daily in my classroom with my students as a teacher and it's been fun to continue that practice of sharing Thoughts for the Day on each of my blogs.

10. I've enjoyed encouraging and assisting other bloggers ... passing along what I've learned whenever possible. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask in comments or drop me email and I'll respond as quickly as I'm able.

11. I'm always grateful for comments from visitors. I appreciate all who take the time to respond and who 'follow' my blogs.

12. Although I no longer publish daily on each blog, I do make an effort to create and publish on at least one of the blogs every day ... and I do my best visit & leave comments for others as time permits.

13. Here are colorful review mosaics for your viewing enjoyment ... just because ;--)

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in Thursday Thirteen
Color Carnival & Haiku Friday too.

Click to see my 2nd Blogoversary post
at Sacred Ruminations

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." George E. Woodberry