• Photography

    Beautiful Pixies

    I was looking through my images this evening to find a photograph to post when I came across this one.  I had actually forgotten about this set of images.  A friend of my oldest daughter came by one evening last month with her younger sisters.  These girls were incredibly sweet and interested in my camera so I offered to take a few photographs of them ~ an impromptu photo shoot if you will.  This is one of the photographs from their “session”….big, brown eyes and sweet smiles….beautiful pixies.  🙂

  • Photography

    Blooming

    I brought my hibiscus plant inside not too long ago. The temperatures at night were getting below their comfort zone. They won’t survive the winter outside in my region. It is doing wonderfully in the house by my back door. And blooming inside now. I love waking up to these beautiful blooms. They make me smile.

  • Life In General,  Photography

    Daydreaming While Watching Sunsets

    I was able to get my sunset photos web ready this evening… …the PSE installation was successful. They weren’t quite as colorful as I had hoped….but the clouds were interesting. I simplified this image in Topaz…it kind of gave the water a weird kind of texture. Kind of flaky looking I guess. I like the tiny airplane at the top. When I see an airplane, I always wonder where they are going…. …or where they have been. Hopefully it was a good flight either way.

  • Photography

    It Happens

    There was going to be another image here tonight. I had planned a sunset. Download images…open PSE7.  Ready…wait…what? Photoshop Elements wasn’t cooperating. Crash….burn. Un-install. Reinstall. It happens.  😐

  • Life In General,  Photography

    The Way It Should Be Done

    Today we had a substantial rain storm right before it was time to go home.  By the time I cleared my desk and quickly wrote a check for a bill I wanted to mail on the way home, it had slowed down quite a bit.  While waiting at a light after leaving the Colonial Williamsburg post office, I observed an elderly couple walking up the street close by….maybe heading back to their hotel or motel.  I couldn’t help but think that isn’t the way it should be done. The gentleman was walking ahead of the woman….he didn’t look happy, like he was inconvenienced by the rain.  He was walking under an umbrella as…