frosty start

november is a frosty month...

(image above enhanced with Kim Klassen's 'touch of 1' texture,

along with Pixel Dust's golden bokeh and FABrique textures)

 

 

 

until the sun comes out and melts the frost...

 

sharing with "Texture Tuesday"



petite petals...

spring comes a little bit earlier on the cape than it does in enfield...

the andromeda bushes have rows and rows of tiny blossoms. 

from far away, the bushes look messy,
but up close, the little flowers are just beautiful :)

 

 

 

all images were enhanced with kim klassens's textures - ToBe and Sunkissed :)

linking up with Mona's Picturesque, friday Floral Love at

Mona's Picturesque :)



morning light...

i woke up to a dusting of snow,

just enough to make the whole world beautiful...

 

enhanced with snapseed and a layer of chalkmagic from kim klassen...

sharing with

 Simple Things Sunday.

pink pony :)

today i was looking for pink which was the theme of kim klassen's texture tuesday challenge. yesterday, before the cold night, all of the blooming trees were beautiful.

today, many of the blooms were limp and brown from the freeze. 

the magnolias were impacted the most.

but the cherry trees were just as pretty today as they were yesterday. 

they looked like the epitome of Spring :)

enhanced with 'the veil' texture from kim klassen

and then there was ponyboy, the cat.

he is a handsome boy, who looks like a pretty girl.

when we first found him, we named him bella before getting him checked out at the vet's.

the vet even thought it was a girl. but turns out bella was a boy.

it took us a while to find a new name for him but his markings look like a pinto horse (or so we thought), so we ultimately settled on ponyboy. 

every time i looked at him today, i saw pink...

pink ears, pink nose, pink toes...

so i am posting a picture of my pretty pony for pink as well :)

enhanced with kim's 'shine' texture

taking pictures...

in march 2010, i started a picture project with my sister where each day i picked a word for us to photograph that day. i thought we'd do it for a few weeks and then move on to something new.  i ended up photographing a word-of-the-day for a year. i posted the word on facebook in the morning, shot the pics throughout the day and posted the images on facebook at the end of the day.

it changed my life.

i've been a photographer since i was a teenager - that's about 40 years now. i started getting paid for it in my twenties, in retail portraiture and have done that for over thirty years. but i don't think i thought of myself as a 'photographer' until i did my photo hunt word of the day.

i always thought of myself as a visual person. but i saw the entire world with new eyes. every day. 

if i drove the same roads day after day,

i saw different things because there was a different word-of-the-day.

i grew as a photographer and it felt like i learned new things daily.

 

many facebook friends joined in, well over 100 people joined the photo hunt page.

we supported each other, kept ourselves going and had a ball.

then it ended.

i was lost for a while.

i think i wandered for a year, growing, but nowhere near as much as i had with the daily quest to take a good picture. in that wandering year, i followed different blogs and was fascinated by the amount of sharing that was happening online. it was a whole new world and i was addicted.

one blog leads to another and i spent hours following them all.

i was inspired!

but i wasn't shooting as much. i was bored with the same places, tired of photographing birds and squirrels, flowers and sunsets. i didn't know what to do to get back the joy that i'd found in the word-of-the-day.

finally, i signed on for kim klassen's 'beyond layers' online class. 

it has been a blessing.

i am learning so much about photoshop, which has been great fun.

but i'm also learning things photographically and that has been fantastic. 

and this week, the challenge involved a color of the day. 

omg, i felt like me again. 

 

go green :) on monday

tuesday's mellow yellow...

 pretty in pink on wednesday...

thursday is blue day :)

 

and coincidentally, the facebook photo hunt group came back to life this week too!

we had a word of the day again. and it was making me see things again. i was actually overwhelmed with it all, and didn't get to post all the assignments.

but i shot them :)

it was great to be inspired AND then to do something with the inspiration!

thank you, kim klassen and xanthe

and all the photo hunt friends! 

tuesday - window

wednesday - peace

 

thursday - spring

today's word is RED -

both the color of the day and the word of the day.

i am looking forward to a day of SEEING RED...

in a good way :)