Good cheer, great hope and the best that the Christmas season has to offer for you and your family as you celebrate this time of togetherness. Merry Christmas!

Los Angeles. California.

THE PLATTERS

"Twilight Time"

so sweet Sadakos Frog :))

liquified background.

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I was looking out a front window one fall morning and saw this beautiful fall scene.

Created for Award Tree October 2022 Challenge #217 - Light and Shadow

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Created for Award Tree Challenge 218 - Autumn Textures

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This is my own photography.

Filters, border, frames, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for The Award Tree Challenge 223 - Red Yellow Blue - April 2023

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For Slider's Sunday.

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I used one of my forsythia photos to create this.

Filters, border, frame, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for Kreative People Shades of Grey Contest - Dec 2021

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For Slider's Sunday.

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Photography is my own. Filters and craquelure texture are from Photoshop.

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By Katy Perry

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Created for TMI Song Title Contest - May 2023

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Snoopy wanted to see what I was up to. Thought I might have some peanuts to share. Not today...just my camera.

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For Slider's Sunday.

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Filters, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for The Award Tree #216 Challenge - Sunflowers

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Sunflower is my own macro photography.

Filters, frame, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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My photo shape/Wombo images. This is a blend of three HDR images.

Prompts - Fall scenes, mountains, wilderness, and trees.

The kayaker is my own.

Moose - Yahoo images

Filters, frames, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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What is this?　（Galleries With This Photo）

Alstroemeria

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ルドベキア　　Rudbeckia

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Sunflowers are the national flower of Ukraine. Now they symbolize resistance and solidarity, as well as peace.

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The sunflowers and blue background are my own photography. The filters are from Photoshop.

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Created for Award Tree Challenge 224 - Springy Spring

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My own photo of crabapple blossoms and chickadee photo shape.

Filters, border, frame, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for The Award Tree Summer Challenge 215 - Wet Work

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The photography is my own. Filters, frame, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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At Adams Falls (upper chute) at Ricketts Glen State Park PA

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Created for The Award Tree Summer Challenge 215 - Wet Work

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For Slider's Sunday.

The photography is my own. The filters, frame/border, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Photography is my own. Filters, frames, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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and you will prevail.

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EXPLORE Worthy - REMIX THIS PIX 33 (2022 Art)

For Mystic Challenge Give Peace a Chance - March/April 2022

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For Recreating Masters Challenge - Recreating Ukraine

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Thanks to Doug Zwick for the use of his source image:

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The sunflower is my own image. Filters and brick texture are from Photoshop.

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Snoopy the squirrel knows exactly when to look forward to getting some peanuts. I captured this photo right after I threw Snoopy a peanut the other day,

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Filters, frames, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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A bunny was settled in among the sweet clover in our backyard. Right at the time I pressed the shutter button, the bunny was eating a clover blossom.

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The photography is my own. The filters, frames, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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I was lucky to be at a Monarch butterfly release day early one September. It was fun to watch an employee let a caterpillar crawl very slowly onto the tip of her finger.

A Monarch butterfly landed on a some flowers and stayed there long enough for me to capture a few photos.

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Created for The Award Tree Mini Challenge - Juxtaposed Diptychs

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For Slider's Sunday.

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The photography is my own. Filters, frames, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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Explore Worthy, Challenge 122 -Summer Garden.

Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces

143rd MMM My Favourite Way of Editing Challenge

Photography and floral shapes are my own. Filters and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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The azaleas are in full bloom now, and I wanted to fill the frame with a multitude of these beautiful flowers.

The frame is from Photoshop.

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Created for DUC22#30 - Fine Dining

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For Slider's Sunday.

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Pre-set dining table - Dreamstime.com

Rainbow Lorikeet - Dreamstime.com

Grapes - png image

Filters, frame, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for Mystic Challenge Group - Mystic Spring - April 2022

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The floral photography is my own.

Filters, frame, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Please note: The camera date and time for these spring photos is incorrect.

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Created for Award Tree's May Scapes Challenge 205

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Photography is my own. Filters are from Photoshop.

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These old-fashioned and very bright summer favorites are now in bloom in my garden. They are hummingbird magnets, but no hummingbirds in sight today.

Photography is my own. Frame is from Photoshop.

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Textures with thanks to Lenabem Anna, script brushes Obsidian Dawn, corner by G&T designs. My photo of tulips.

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Created for The Award Tree Mini Challenge - Juxtaposed Diptychs

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Both scenes are my own photography. Filters, frames and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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This group of Canada geese, (born in May) were out for a walk with one of their parents on a June afternoon. They just happened to be walking across a parking lot over to the pond at a nearby wetlands.

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Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces

149th MMM "Out Of Bounds" Challenge

Photography is my own. The OOB fun edit, filters, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for DUC22#4 Challenge

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For Slider's Sunday

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Thanks to Gillian Everett for the use of her beautiful starter image - Apricot Rose

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The gray squirrel, with bg, and peonies are my own photography. The filters, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for The Award Tree #216 Challenge - Sunflowers

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The glass jar/flowers on the table without the sunflowers and heart is my own photography.

Handmade heart - Dreamstime.com

Sunflowers - Public domain

Filters, frames, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for Photoshop Contest Week 897 - Mallard Family

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Created for The Award Tree Summer Challenge 215 - Wet Work

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Thanks to Gillian for the use of her starter image:

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Photography is my own except for Gillian's (two) ducks

My original was taken at the Arundel Water Fowl Centre, Arundel England.

Filters, and brick texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for Photoshop Contest Week 865 - Beach Corner

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Thanks to Skagitrenee for the use of her starter image.

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All the other photography and photo shapes are my own. They are from Brighton and Worthing England. Starfish is my own photo. Filters and sandstone texture are from Photoshop.

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created for: Photoshop Contest week 841

Original photo by: Jaci XIV

Thanks to Jaci for the use of her source image.

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Butterfly and ladybug photo shapes are my own photography. Filters are from Photoshop.

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"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."

- Claude Monet

"Choose only one master – Nature."

- Rembrandt

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Created for Photoshop Contest Week #898 - Mountain Monster

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For Slider's Sunday.

Thanks to Christine for the use of her starter image.

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The Worthing England beach/seaside is my own.

Kittiwake on nest - Dreamstime.com

Seagull - Dreamstime.com

Sea Shells - Public domain

Pail/shovel - Public domain

Toy bulldozer - Public domain

Toy boat - Freeimages.com

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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, Northern California, USA.

"But who will watch my lilies,

When their blossoms open white?

By day the sun shall be sentry,

And the moon and the stars by night!"

- Bayard Taylor

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I will have a mayor surgery in a week (September 12), so this is my last post for now.

When I feel better after my surgery, I will post another image. Thanks for your friendship, kind comments and favorites.

Tendré una cirugía mayor en una semana, así que esta es mi última publicación por ahora.

Cuando me sienta mejor despues de la operacion, pondré otra imagen. Gracias por su amistad, amables comentarios y favoritos.

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I was raking leaves this morning, and noticed this tiny group of lilacs in bloom. Is it really fall or is it spring?

Filters, frames, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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I spotted this young rabbit in the yard as it was starting to hop away.

For Slider's Sunday.

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Bunny, grass, background/dandelion photo shapes are my own.

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One fall, six visitors surprised each other when they gathered together at the lake.

For Award Tree's Challenge #206 - Water Treatment

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EXPLORE Worthy, Shades of Autumn challenge (2021)

All photography is my own, including the canoe and the six wildlife photo shapes. The filters are from Photoshop.

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called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

Urban kaleidoscope.

This little chickadee was waiting patiently to fly over to one of the feeders in my yard.

Shock of the New Challenge #70.0

~ SOTN ~ FROSTBITE ~

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They need that more than ever now!

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For Mystic Challenge Give Peace a Chance - March/April 2022

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For Recreating Masters Challenge - Recreating Ukraine

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The sunflowers and blue background are my own photography. The filters, frames and canvas texture are from Photoshop. Peace symbols are from a Yahoo search.

Thanks everyone for your views, comments, awards, invites, and faves.

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

- Ovid

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One among many others. This particular one borrowed from the Palazzo dei Priori in Città di Castello. Umbria, Italy.

Created for Artistic Manipulation MixMaster Challenge #47

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CHEF brillianthues wants us to imagine a colorful, warm weather scene!

➤ The background of your image must be a visibly abstract pattern. Examples HERE. (A subtle texture will not do.)

➤ The image must include ONE circle, sphere OR orb.

➤ Also ONE bird OR butterfly.

➤ And flowers – as many as you wish.

➤ NO MUTED COLORS.

For Slider's Sunday.

Photography and the butterfly, flowers, and (oil)sphere shapes are my own. Filters are from Photoshop.

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Created for Award Tree #214 Challenge - Urban Spring

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For Slider's Sunday.

The photography is my own, Filters, frames and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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