..just a little bit of spring..still chilly out..pansies 

with various textures..stained glass, ocean and music..
     For Nancy Claeys' Tuesday Muse

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Old factory blues..

Two views of the same abandoned old factory in the industrial area of Tacoma...a little texture here and there  to make it  just a little more interesting...for  Nancy Claeys'  Tuesday Muse where you find  her A Rural Journal as well.

Woodland flower...

Sharing with Nancy Claeys'  Your Sunday Best Photo...

Taken on road trip to Oregon....a lacy wildflower SOOC...and.with 
embossed texture...

More daisies...

A last minute posting for  Flower Art Friday ...more daisies, as I posted one on Photo Art Friday yesterday; but this is an experiment which obviously shows I need more practice with textures.  I just threw this together...far from looking like the other professional photos here...but I like a good critique now and then ;-)

"Vital" words & Nature's pink wild rose...

Today I am linking up with 2 different challenges .. first is             

 and   kimklassencafe.com with a photo art postcard designed using one of her textures, deardreamer and a personal message.  The pink rose is from my yard,  is faded for the theme of her prompt, "Natural", for which there are so many options.  For Leo's              I wrote a haiku for the word "Vital" to describe the motivation behind the card...I hope I disconnected the word verification step as suggested ;-)

by klr

Circumstance arose

Vital as blood in my veins

Urge to convey thoughts

One more flower....Sunday's Best...

Well, I was able to eke out one more photo to post over at Your Sunday Best Photo challenge ..it is the old-fashioned mauve & cream color Verbascum that I love to see every June in my garden.  I added a little texture:  Dina from Nancy Claeys' collection and a smidgen of crackle...and thought I'd share.  Due to the uncooperative computer it took most of yesterday to finish. ;)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull .... with Bokeh...

  Linking with Photo Art Friday using a bit of Bonnie's bokeh technique...combining my one photo of   Haystack Rock in Oregon and 3 other photos...

“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is,” he said,”you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived…”


 “I don’t mind being bone and feathers, Mum. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can’t, that’s all. I just want to know”

Did you know that the precursor to Jonathan is Attar's "conference of birds (Persian poet, 12th century)?

The Mountain...

Sharing with Ana's Earth Wonders where the theme all month is Nature...

By zooming in on the space at the end of the cul de sac where I live I can see Mt. Rainier, barely.  

Usually she is highlighted in pastel colors in morning or evening, but many a day there is a circle of clouds crowning her brow.  In this photo the sun is shining on her northeast side.  She comes out many times a day, no matter the weather unless it particularly is a dismal period.  Very few days go by when one doesn't see her from one angle or another at many intersections, hillsides, or while driving on the freeway.  It is amazing how many people have a personal view of her from their back yards or upstairs windows.  At times, she appears as clear as a bell, magnified and oh, so close; other times she seems much farther 
away in the distance than she really is.  


Everyone agrees she is beautiful in the 
spring for her meadows of wildflowers, in autumn for her multicolored treeline, and for her 

showy snow whiteness in winter, when her entire face if covered.  All year hikers traverse her.  Lately the earth has shaken beneath her as she is close to one of the major fault lines in Washington State, but she has been dormant for many, many years.

I feel privileged to have this peek at her from my mailbox, however the wires stringing across the photo take away from the scene.  Anyway, I decided to blend in the profile of  the famous Suquamish Indian,  Chief Sealth,  as his people believe mountains have spirits and he does look quite handsome looking over his kingdom from the sky, I think.  I left the sepia tones on purpose and added a little smoky blue texture.  Thousands of photos of Mt. Rainier abound so this will win no prize, but it's nice to
 have a peek-a boo view.Earth Wonders at Ana's Wonderland web-site...http://anasofiaeugenio.com/

The Pelican Brief...PAF..

Not too  late.....and there are more interesting entries if you go to:  Photo Art Friday

For this week's texture art photo we were asked to create and submit an art photo using 

what we have learned about layering and use the theme of one of our favorite books..any book.  Well, I 

chose a series of law and order type books which were made into movies.   Aaron Sorkin wrote A Few Good Men and John Grisham was the author of both The Firm and The Pelican Brief.  I went with the latter, using a photo of my late father's Appellate Court law books, a photo of the scales he had in his chambers 
as a judge.  Using texture of antique lettering and a stock photo of a pelican, I put them all 
together.  I'm not used to the Pixlr site yet, but this is what I came up with today; it is 
a bit 'off' because I was used to picnik and don't have photoshop;

the editing and blending could be much better and I thought the tutorial was poor,
but...it was fun to put together;)

Doctored dahlia...

As those of you who have been using picnik.com know,  they are closing shop in April.  Since the premium options are now free I've taken advantage of the opportunity... until I set up photoshop on
a new computer sometime in the not too distant future.

Maybe you remember this downward dog positioned dahlia from last summer..a SOOC shot that drew a lot of compliments.  












Now she has been antiqued and grained with writing and texture for a new look or two...amazing differences, so thought I would re-submit her to Lisa Gordon's Creative Exchange for one more go around. 

Textured window...

One attempt to add texture to a photo I took last summer...more to come in the days ahead..entry for  Photo Art Friday......I still do not have photoshop so hope this result from picnik.com will work for now.

    Before...




          with only one layer with a vintage focus...




   ....and after....

Bird in wreath...

Depth in wreath is more apparent with sepia and other tones cross highlighted - the texture is really the wreath itself...for me...a step closer to the more complicated texture formats ;-)   Entry for ----