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Tuesday Texture Play – Warmth

Quote of the day: “And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these…” — Julian Grenfell I couldn’t resist playing with this perfectly pink rose, a favorite new quote, and a texture by Kim Klassen for this week’s texture challenge, “Share an image centered around the word, warmth.”  Steps to create: Desaturate the photo to get antique rose look and feel Add layer of kk_scriptededges in screen blending mode 64% Add text using Dafont “Journal” Add warming filter layer Here is the original photo:

By Marilyn, ago

Nature Art

Quote of the day:  “I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” —Ansel Adams Yesterday we visited the Richardson Nature Center at Hyland Park Reserve.  It’s one of many wonderful nature centers operated by the Three Rivers Park District in the Twin Cities area. It has been years since I’ve been there and clearly, the center has been re-furbished and re-done since I was last there. I was delighted with their 3-D wall nature wall art. It was bright, cheerful, and playful as well as educational. What an amazing space — absolutely beautiful! I love Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Praise for the amazing-ness of green — wondrous, vibrant, growing green!

Quote of the day: “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca As spring turns slowly into summer, we’ve been having rain and more rain in Minnesota for the past 2 weeks. The woods and marshes and gardens are glowing with amazing, wondrous, vibrant greens! Everywhere I look, bright green. Sometimes it’s almost as if the air carries a slight tint of green, no doubt reflected off of the amazing greens growing all around. I adore hiking in the woods through a haze of green. I can feel Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Friday Gratitude and Joy in Being Human

Quote of the day: “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” —Buddha As humans, we often strive to reach a certain state—enlightenment, balance, presence, peace—and then try to stay in that state. I have found that it is not my fate to reach some state and stay there forever. Life is not static; it’s a rhythm and flow of ups and downs, joys and sorrows. Just when I think that I’ve achieved a new understanding or a new level of being, old thoughts, doubts, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago