The dramatic cloud formation is a combination of impending rain clouds and water particles (mist) rising above the Niagara Falls. Three stock images used to satisfy a well known play on words... Fly to the moon on gossamer wings.

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Hey, if you need a blast of warmth, these golden coneflowers ought to do the trick! HSS!

Edited with a sketch effect in Topaz Studio 2

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Posted for Sliders Sunday -- Processed to the MAX!

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The negative space has been air-brushed to eliminate distractions

Photo Art Composite

They'd been pure white, but are now dressed up in their beautiful fall colours. Lightly edited with an effect in Topaz Studio 2 for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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An "abstract" created for the Hypothetical Awards Winter Abstracts Challenge

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All images and texture layers are my own

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

There are many animals who need another home. We have found a female Japanese Spitz in that position. Her name is Marnie. She will live here after we fetch her on Wednesday 27th February.

So we can make her as happy as possible in her new home with us, I won't be on Flickr nearly as much for a while. I hope you will understand and have patience. Many of you will know what's involved and how it will change my life. Our beloved Zak died on 1st February and we need another to partly fill that enormous hole he left in our hearts. Marnie isn't a replacement, but another who needs us and we can love.

Here are some tulips for you to say 'thank you' in advance.

Processed with Topaz and Picmonkey and added a filter from the Windows 10 editing app. Hope you like them !

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created for

New Mini Challenge # 165.0 ~ The Award Tree

~ Winter Trees ~ The Award Tree ~

(best in full screen)

(mieux en plein écran)

No use of AI

Pic by Marta Artma▼

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Manipulation by D#27

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Most of the tulips had been a very pale yellow and I thought they could stand an uplift. For Sliders Sunday, I added an effect and modified the colours in Topaz Studio. HSS!

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This was the scene at one of the flower gardens that I frequent. It almost seems as though the dahlia is supervising the other flowers in the b/g. HSS!

Edited with an impressionism filter in Topaz Studio 2.

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(Click on image twice to enlarge, so you can see those happy birds beyond the rainbow.)

My all time favorite version of "Over the Rainbow".

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A brave little dandelion pushes its way through semi frozen ground cover, and rejoices in its brief life.

(This abstract is quite different from my usual posts - but every once in a while it is good to try something outside of your comfort zone. )

A rather large patch of showy bee balm (monarda), a popular source of pollen for bees and other pollinators. Edited with an effect and colour saturation for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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Thanks to everyone for visits , comments , awards and invitations, I appreciate your feedback very much

Pigza Bakin wasn’t a very good actor. The best he could get was a stand-in role, back, way back in the background. At first he didn’t understand the distant whir, and then the arriving alien ships, obliterating everything on the mother earth below.

In the end, Pigza Bakin was the lone survivor that dark, fateful day. And it is from his memory - you now see before you - we still have this beautiful, pleasant vision . . . Of How It Once Was.

How pleasant to lie on the soft, warm sand, bathed in sunlight . . . ADRIFT in the FLOW of ALL THAT IS.

Made with elements of sixteen stock images. All textures and treatments are my own.

THANK YOU ALL MY KIND FLICKR FRIENDS.

YOUR FAVS, COMMENTS AND INVITATIONS ARE VERY MOTIVATING AND APPRECIATED

Another digital manipulation of the mess on my kitchen counter top. I can't clean it up because I'm too busy playing with photos of the chaos, . . . :D

Last year, there were some of these pretty flowers displayed at The Leaf, a major horticultural attraction in Winnipeg. I lightly edited it with an effect for Sliders Sunday. HSS and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!

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Our outside temperatures are dropping each night, and little squirrel needed to have a snack before crawling into his little nest for the long cold night ahead.

(Doc had just refilled little squirrel's feeder jar with peanuts, and he loves his peanuts.)

Posted for Sliders Sunday - Post Processed to the MAX! HSS!

These flowers are already bright, but for Sliders Sunday, I saturated the colours and used a stained glass effect in Topaz Studio 2. If you look closely, you'll see a tiny hoverfly visiting one of the blooms. I hope you enjoy! HSS!

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The Tea Party . . .

I had a little tea party

this afternoon at three.

'Twas very small,

three guests in all,

Just I, myself and me.

Myself ate up the sandwiches,

While I drank up the tea.

'Twas also I who ate the pie,

And passed the cake to me.

Author: Jessica Nelson North

Posted for Sliders Sunday - processed to the MAX!

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You know what? This lily was growing right alongside of a sidwalk last summer, so how could I not take a photo? )0:

I couldn't help but add an impressionism filter and alter the colours for Sliders Sunday (and to have a bit of fun)! HSS!

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These are tiny pink flowers of a flowering shrub, made pinker by adding one of Topaz Studio's smudge filters for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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No AI used

With it being -29C/-21F right now, who couldn't dream of summer! Cosmos in a local park, edited with an impressionism filter in Topaz Studio 2 for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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Common Pheasant