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My "colourful heart" is ready for spring. HSoS!

Posted for "Smile on Saturday" theme; "Colourful Hearts".

Lots of room to roam, when you live at the top of a summit.

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With sub-zero temperatures predicted for the next couple of weeks - I am waiting for the day that our boreal forest welcomes spring flowers. Until then, I'll see them in my dreams.

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If I have to choose a type of orchid it would be this one...

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Rose - Art,

used: Filter Forge, Photoshop

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An unwelcome POV in the opinion of perfectly green lawn lovers all over the world... the leaf was added for effect and composition.

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Hmmm.... What's this? A canon and a wedding chapel? The canon and this world-famous wedding chapel at the Top of the Rock Ozarks Heritage Presserve really don't have anything to do with each other... after all, wouldn't a canon be overkill for a shotgun wedding? :D Actually, the canon is kept in operating condition and it is shot at sunset each evening to herald the end to another day while someone plays bagpipes in the mountaintop outlook (which overlooks the chapel). At this time of the year, the sun was setting behind the chapel... which made for some dramatic photos.

Unforunately, it was a perfectly cloudless evening, so I added the cloud layer in post processing to create this composite.

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A Floral Fantasy

Fantaisie florale

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The very edge of the lake is beginning to thaw, as last years matted grasses lay against the rocky shoreline.

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. . . for HSS.

Wishing everyone a colorful and delightful Sliders Sunday.

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As I was working on this image, that title came to me. I knew it was a Bob Dylan song I had not heard for 45 years, so I looked up the lyrics, and sure enough, they are perfect for the universe shown here. Thank you, Bob :)))

HMBT!

A redo of a project from my archive with improved editing skills – originally done in 2013. The current Flickr x LEGO® Build and Capture photo contest inspired me to dig into my archive for my source files and rework/repost.

A digital manipulation of an image of my youngest son, Henry (who was 12 at time). Henry developed a beautifully creative and analytical mind which is due in part (I am convinced) to his near life-long interest in Lego brick building. He has two older brothers who were also Lego builders (and five and seven years older), thus he got a VERY early start. This photoshop project fits his personality perfectly - he was quite serious about his Lego builds back in the day.

Henry is now 20 years old and a sophomore at college with a double major in Biochemistry and English/Literature. A beautiful mind indeed.

Now that he is a part-timer in our household, I miss him a great deal in general, but also miss him as the most cooperative photography model of my three sons.

"Texture wrapping" edits via the displace filter in Photoshop.

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Our wilderness neighbors seem to be taking turns visiting us each morning. This morning before the crack of dawn, our two moose emerged from the forest to chomp on what ever goodies they could find on what was once a garden plot.

*(Posted for the Sliders Sunday group.) HSS!