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Outside My Window ~ 10.18.09
Outside My Window…is gray, gloomy and windy. At 7:30 a.m., it is 49F but could feel colder if you were outside because of the wind. We are on the tail end of a double nor’easter that came through the end of last week. The high today will be a whopping 3 degrees warmer than it is right now…..52F. I had to turn the heat on for the first time yesterday. We are forecasted to receive a bit more rain…..but the pavement is dry right now. I am thinking…how in the world three people can mess a house up so quickly? And to make matters worse, we are not here…
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Outside My Window ~ 9.20.09
Outside My Window…is a beautiful almost fall morning. We are at 65F with 73% humidity, sunny with blue skies. The forecast is for a high of 78F with patchy clouds. Beautiful. The dogwood tree leaves are beginning to turn…..they are generally the first to turn around here. I have noticed quite a few berries on mine this year. It appears that when I get a lot of berries in the fall, I get more blooms the following spring. I am thinking…about how quickly summer seemed to fly by. It doesn’t seem like that long ago I was stressing over Alanna’s prom dress and graduation. Now school has started again and…
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Outside My Window ~ 8.23.09
Outside My Window…is a decent morning. Temps are 81F with 68% humidity at 11:00 this morning. Yes, it is quite toasty and muggy outside. What was beautiful, blue, sun shiny skies is now filling with clouds. We are forecasted today to have thunderstorms this afternoon. This is pretty typical weather for this time of year actually. Yesterday afternoon we had an enormous amount of rain from the front that passed through….the same one that kept Hurricane Bill away from the coast. I am thinking…about my things to do list…….and how grateful I am that Alanna remembered the time she got caught in a rip current when we were at Nags…
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Outside My Window ~ 8.16.09
Outside My Window…is a nice morning……sun is shining….a slight breeze…..81F with 68% humidity. Yea, I’m wishing the humidity wasn’t that high. Wow, I just saw on the weather channel we have had almost 4 inches of rain so far this month…and I have noticed the tropics are picking up ~ three now. We are heading into the real hurricane season now. It officially starts on June 1st, but things usually won’t get interesting until mid August and they can get even more interesting as we approach mid September. It is perfect weather for storms to blossom in the ocean. For people who live near the east or gulf coast, the…
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Outside My Window ~ 8.2.09
Outside My Window…M*U*G*G*Y….overcast skies, temperature is around 79F right now and 85% humidity at 830. Our forecast for today is thunderstorms, some possibly severe. I ran my 3 miles this morning…..felt more like a swim with all the moisture in the air!! 🙂 I am thinking…about all the things I need to do before we leave on our trip. I have started a list of things to take with me and will be pulling our bags out so I can start packing a few things. It won’t be a long visit so won’t require too many things, but I tend to over-pack. Guess it is better to have too much…
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One Wedding and Sunflowers
Happy Saturday to you all! If you want to see the best wedding march I have seen, check out this link….sorry, I haven’t quite figured out the embedding so you will have to click and leave me for a few minutes….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0 So you’re back now…..wasn’t that a hoot! 😀 I also have some more sunflowers to show you……..yes, yes, I know you have seen them before ~ but not these! 😉 If you click on the image, you can see a larger size of it….or you can check out all my sunflowers at The Great Sunflower Project set I have set up on Flickr. Click on the smaller…
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Playing with Actions…
I ran across an amazing blog……Rita creates free actions and textures for Photoshop/Photoshop Elements/Lightroom at CoffeeShop….and she has giveaways too. If you have any interest in editing/adding effects to your photos, you definitely need to give her space a look. This is a photo I took at my mothers Thursday evening as the sun was setting on that side of the house. I used CoffeeShop Golden Vintage and CoffeeShop Burn plus old paper effect on PSE. There are tutorials available for installing the actions and beautiful photo examples. Rita is a talented artist and editor……take at look at some of her work at CoffeeShop.
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Outside My Window ~ 7.19.09
Outside My Window…is me. I’m sitting outside again this morning. At 8:30, it is 74 degrees, but it is humid. There is a slight breeze so that makes it better. Mostly sunny, with some random clouds floating overhead and blocking the sun momentarily. I have had my run…I can do 2.25 miles in about a half an hour now so I have decided I can run 3 miles on the weekends ~ after today. The weekly morning runs, well their length depends on what time I roll out of bed. 🙂 I am thinking…about entering my first bee data on The Great Sunflower Project web site later today. Yup, I…
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Outside My Window ~ 6.28.09
Outside My Window…is a warm, humid, overcast day. There is a slight breeze causing the trees to sway a bit and my wind chimes to sing to me. We have a slight chance for showers this evening…….welcome treats for the flowers and plants. I am thinking…about the few bills I need to pay……..my trip to South Carolina in August to see my dad and step-mom and their new house…….the chores that need to be completed today……new products for me to sell……designing my new shop on Etsy……refinishing some items…….working with clay……a painting in my mind that is waiting to be put on canvas. Right now my mind is running in overdrive…
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Outside My Window ~ 5.3.09
Outside My Window…is a rather gloomy looking morning. Temps are at 63 degrees, cloudy with some fog lingering outside. Our forecast today does not improve as the day goes on ~ chance of thunderstorms. I am thinking…about an old friend this morning, Shaun Sargent. I received news last night that he has passed after suffering a heart attack and lapsing into a coma about a week ago. While I say he was an “old” friend, he was actually a few years younger than I am. I met him in 1985 when I moved from Denver to Dallas. Shaun was a longtime friend of my ex-husbands and opened his home…