Freaky Friday - What season is this?

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I just couldn't  resist sharing a how our morning started out here.

                                                                                       

No words are needed for this short video. -

When it snows what do you do if you're a little kid home on Spring Break?

You build a Snowman!

Meet, "Joe" the Snowman

 He needs a hat so Coleen shared hers (for awhile).

Joe is starting to lean...

Joe has "fallen" and he can't get up! Poor Joe.

Oh what season is this again?

Ahhhh SPRING, Daffodils and Sunshine (not so much here lately)!

Photo Art Friday - April 6, 2012

It's PAF time!!! - This week the theme is: feature a macro photo (or a photograph that you have cropped to highlight a close-up part of the image) that you feel qualifies as a piece of art.



I was playing around one day with my camera and spotted a container of Licorice Nibs on the table and decided to take some Macro Photos of them.  - Does anyone else find themselves taking Macro shots of weird things like that?  Anyway I liked the way the photo turned out but thought it would be fun to play around with it using some features on Picnik.

Here is my Original Licorice Nib Shot SOOC - Click to enlarge:

Up first is the Posterize feature on Picnik which I also did in Gimp but liked the Picnik version better.

Next is the Hypnotic effect (I used this a couple of weeks ago and had to try it out again)

Lastly (this one is my favorite) - Infrared - Heat Map 30% and text added.

Be sure to stop by Bonnie's Blog HERE and check out the other entries.

"Whatever" Wednesday - The Metal Ball Edition

Hello! - Well it's certainly been a Bizarre week here as far as the weather goes.  Yesterday it was 72 outside and the sun was shining.  Today it's about 38 at the moment and it snowed! - I'm telling you this is the weirdest spring I've ever seen here in "Wally World."

So who's up for some Whatever Wednesday photos? - Today I'm sharing some pictures of a large metal ball sculpture located here in town.  I'm not sure what the building is used for but I think it belongs to the Power Company. - They use to have some Hot Pink flags flying from the turrets but the wind blew them down a few weeks ago.  I'm bummed that I didn't get a picture of the building with the flags before the wind blew them down.

Anyhow here they are:

Scavenger Hunt Sunday - April 1, 2012

Wow it's APRIL FOOL'S Day...I have no joke or prank to play on you because quite frankly I "stink" at that sort of thing.

So how about we get right to this weeks Scavenger Hunt Sunday photo's.

This weeks prompts:
Clouds, Sun flare, Seven, High Angle and Low Angle.

I struggled with some of the prompts this week but I completed the set with only 1 slight "archived" photo from back on March 7th.

CLOUDS:  Well we've certainly had plenty of those this past month.  Lots of overcast skies, lots of rain, some snow and even hail.  I took this photo of some clouds outside of the Dentist office just before the skies opened up with a torrential downpour followed by a Hail storm.

SUN FLARE: - Took this shot under the fir trees out in front of our house after the hail had stopped and the sun came out. Weird day weather wise for sure.

SEVEN - I was so hoping to be creative with this prompt but just couldn't seem to think of anything really fun or original so I hope you'll settle for cute instead.  My granddaughter, Coleen who just happens to be age 7!

This was my "archived" photo.

These last 2 were the one's I struggled the most with. 

High Angle:  Took this shot of Callie-Jo inside a shoe box

LOW ANGLE:

Doesn't she look comfy!

Next weeks prompts: New, Life, Fragrant, Pink and Obvious



Photo Art Friday - March 30, 2012

It's Friday and time once again for Photo Art Friday over on Bonnie's blog, Pixel Dust Photo Art.  - Bonnie has a cool FREE texture over there so be sure to check it out. 

This week the options were: Any piece of Photo Art or Path/Roads
I chose Path for my piece.  I knew right away what I wanted to use.  I had taken a picture of a Path leading into the local library last fall and thought it looked pretty cool so I decided to go with that.  The problem was I couldn't seem to locate it on my computer.  After searching for about 1/2 an hour I finally realized that the photo was probably still on the old computer as some of the files did not get transferred onto the new computer.  I finally located the file and transferred the picture to the new computer so I could get started.

Below is my original photo SOOC:

It's an (okay) photo but seemed a little dismal looking. Yes, it was an overcast and cloudy day but I thought it needed to be brightened up a little so I did a bit of editing at PicMonkey (Very similar to the soon to be gone Picnik).  I liked how the edits turned out and then I wanted to add some sort of a quote - (Yes, I have a thing for quotes ) that would be appropriate for the word Path.  I finally settled on one and you can see the final result in the photo below.

Be sure to stop by Bonnie's blog and check out the other entries. Also send Bonnie some good vibes, prayers, words of encouragement as she has not been feeling well the past couple of weeks. 

Big Hugs to you Bonnie and Prayers for a speedy recovery.  Thanks for hosting this fun challenge every week and for offering the great textures.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.