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Monday, June 7, 2010

Time Travel: A Primer, Lesson 1

I finally learned how to time-travel, when I started singing in small community music concerts. Somewhere out in the ether where music is a tangible thing, I connect up with all those people who sang these things before me, and will sing them again.




The hard part is I still have to practice down here, outside of the ether.


Also I have to not muff up my entrances.

I photographed this moss and oak on a hike in the Mid-Penninsula Regional Open Space, San Mateo County, California. Please CLICK ON THE PHOTO for more detail.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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.


Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Poppies

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

These are blooming beneath my mailbox this morning.

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