Yosemite: Time Travel

A sudden warm spell down here set me dreaming about going to Yosemite. I'd like to head back to Yosemite as it was at the time this postcard was printed. Then again I'm partial to being a woman in modern times.

I cleaned up, altered and matted this card using Photoshop CS4.

Long Time

O Jerusalem

Please CLICK ON THIS PICTURE and get a better view.

An altered detail from the original Free Library building, San Luis Oibspo CA.

My own photograph, Extracted and altered with Photoshop CS4.

My Favorite Chicken (Printable Luggage Tag)

This chicken is part of a flock of nine in my neighbor's yard. My little neighbor boy named her after me because we both have reddish hair.

Many days, my chicken namesake flies the coop and comes to spend the day in my yard. I save the tastier bits of my compost bowl for her.

CLICK on this tag to bring it up for printing. It PRINTS NICELY on a piece of postcard stock.

The wonderful vintage luggage tag background I used for this project is a free public download from the HauntingVisionsStock site. Thank you D-O-H!

Image created by altering my own photo in Photoshop CS4 with the "colored pencil" filter.

Poppies

Photoshop couldn't do anything that would improve these CA poppies.

These are blooming beneath my mailbox this morning.

Peggy's Place In Bloom

Peggy lives on my biking and walking route downtown. This house belongs to her and her husband. They live there and also rent out rooms to other people. If I'm walking by heading to the store at the end of a work day, I sometimes see them gathering on the porch, just like in something out of a novel, or an Andy Griffith t.v. segment. Except that Peggy's roomers are more ethnically diverse than those in Mayberry.

Peggy once gave me some lemons and has also gave me some valuable advice about making a protest sign when I was getting ready to go to the March-In-March protest for California public college funding. When I took this photo, earlier this month, the Cecile Breuner roses where in bloom over Peggy's porch. CLICK on the picture for more rose detail. That's my bike parked in front. It's pretty much the same color as the roses.

I altered the original photo using Photoshop CS4's the colored pencil filter. I also made the digital mat with Photoshop, extracting the color from the roses .

Bees: What The World Needs Now

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I found these honeys pollinating blackberry blooms in the park near my house.

Keep up the good work, darlin's. I love my berries.

Bee Populations are in Trouble http://news.discovery.com/animals/honey-bees-disappearing-still-a-problem.html