A quote in dutch this time. Where it comes from and what it means? Find it here on my blog: chaoticperfectionist.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/pastel-ish/

The Picture was edited for Texture Tuesday - Downton Abbey edition (feb.19) with 3 layers of KK's texture Isobel. For details (see link).

for 7DoS: I couldn't get my old nail file to look remotely interesting, so I resorted to the little nailbrush instead

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Peregian Beach, Queensland, Pacific Ocean

"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #26" "Tradition or Traditional" "Texture Tuesday" Traditionally in the Christmas/New Year holidays people go to the beach to cool down :-)

7DoS

"Chocolate" "Texture Tuesday"

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For six word story.

I love looking down and out at these trees from my windows!

Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2015 All Rights Reserved.

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my Flickr friends! You make my day every day!

7 Days of Shooting/Week #46/A Little Sparkle/Texture Tuesday

Taken during photography class

Seen in a shop window.

7DOS texture

"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #15" "Vegetables" "Texture Tuesday

Flickr Lounge: Weekly Theme (Week 43) ~ Bokeh or Beautiful Blur

The view out my office window is dramatic this afternoon.

7DoS "A Rainy Day" "Texture Tuesday"

I hate to admit that I remember this "money changer".

While in Floyd Virginia this past week I spotted this fine cash register at the back of the General Store. A General Store is also something you don't see often anymore where I am.

It brought back some pleasant memories of a less complicated system than we have today. It also reminder me that we didn't have to worry about the electricity going out. We could still use this "invention" and we knew how to count back change. The kids working in stores today don't have a clue when the lights go out.

A vintage pulley for Texture Tuesday which I applied a Kim Klassen preset and texture to.

I found this whiskey bottle when renovating my 100 year old house, including the old nail. I like its grunginess. I used textures: Silence and Sweetart by Kim Klassen

Today's Texture Tuesday theme for Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday is Let's Celebrate! Kim Klassen's awesome texture, "The Ladder" was applied.

Counting 19 more days til Christmas... but today is already almost over!

7 Days of Shooting – Texture Tuesday - Texture in photography emphasizes features and details, so the detail in the surface of the object(s) you are photographing should be the most important feature of the image.

Week #10 (w/b 13 September) Out My Window - Looking out from any window in your home, just popped into your local coffee shop what’s happening through the window or maybe you are a passenger in a car or travelling by air or rail so let’s share what we see out there!

(based on original art 'Do Stay VIII - Eye of a Tiger' by Norbert Gramer)

"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #13" "Art" "Texture Tuesday"

for 7DoS: a tiny part of a van Gogh. Close up it looks pretty messy - though way more appealing than the mess I make ;)

For Texture Tuesday - Used Kim Klassen's "Felicity" texture.

For Texture Tuesday

"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #2” “Black and/or White” “Texture Tuesday"

Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2015 All Rights Reserved.

My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.

Please!! NO Glittery Awards or Large Graphics...Buddy Icons are OK. Thank You!

Many thanks for every kind comment, fave, your words of encouragement, and the inspiration of your fine photography,

my Flickr friends! You make my day every day!

Hopefully this will inspire some serenity.

lunch break in the park,sitting on the grass with my shoe-less feet in the spring sunshine

Days of Shooting – Week 11 (w/b 17th September) Shoes: We all wear them and whether they are your running shoes, walking shoes or boots, cycling shoes or your ballet shoes then let’s see what we wear on our feet. It’s time to get your Jimmy Choos or your Christian Louboutin out of the wardrobe and if preferred someone else’s shoes!

I had been wearing my garden gloves whilst doing my DIY!! Ouch, I made a lovely deep cut on my finger with a saw!!

7 Days of Shooting Week #6" If Only Texture Tuesday ....

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One little pine come lying in the garden!

7 Days of Shooting Week #33 Simplicity Texture Tuesday ....

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10. Bread

For six word story.

Visited a "Truck Graveyard"

"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #36" "Chaos" "Texture Tuesday"...plants overgrowing everything..a little chaotic?

In Portugal, tradition called for people to leave their shoes by the chimney during the night (if you don't have a fireplace, the kitchen will do). In the morning, children wake up early and run to the chimney to see what they got from Father Christmas.

Perfect winter socks.

I visited friends in Wiltshire. During the day we went to a village show which was great fun as it is so different from my usual activities. Disappointing for this rider that his horse clipped one of the poles in the show-jumping competition & left it at an angle - but useful for my photo themes!

TMSH "don't do it" - but the horse did!

MSH "lopsided"

From my archives for 7DOS texture - horse & rider both with "headgear", & contrasting textures of the jump, trees etc.

I know it's spring...but it's cold and rainy here and I was looking for something else and I came across my last Snowy Owl shot, which I never posted..so he wanted to come and say "goodbye", give a bit of sound advice, and tell you that if the timing is right, he hopes to see you again next year...I miss these amazing raptors already...

For Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday the Word edition. The photo must contain words - either in the shot or added during processing. I used Kim's textures Soft Shale and Love.

Not sure if this will really work for Texture Tuesday's theme....the theme is two. There are only two leaves in focus here, so that is what I was thinking. I used Kim Klassen's Mayzee, Chamomile, and Cracked Up Textures. Have a great Tuesday.

More fruity wares from the market.

For Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday.

A pair of nail clippers and tweezers - instruments of beauty well for some people!

7 Days of Shooting Week #21 Instruments Texture Tuesday ....

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The tough shell protects the soft fruit of the longan.

7DoS "Barrier" "Texture Tuesday"

Part of a pair of slippers - knitted fabric outside, lined with fur fabric.

7DOS texture

I'm doing much better again! Thank you so much for your emails and well wishes. Your warmth and love enters our home, our hearts, and makes us tear, in a very good sentimental way. We are touched by you.

I visited my vet on Monday and she does not conclude that I'm allergic to either of my medications, Tramadol and Baytril. She says I have a contact allergy on my skin. What caused it through contact is a very big mystery. The only thing different and new is that a mouse is still in our house since the night before my surgery. (Maybe tonight it will enter the mouse-house!) Otherwise, there is no infection inside either ear, thankfully. Only the outer skin of my ears is irritated pink by an angry rash, as the vet called it. The problem should clear in a few more days with the help of an ointment, and the vet will examine my ears again when I get my 24 metal staple stitches removed in one more week.

Here I was on Monday, resting in bed, and missing my numerous long walks and playmates. But sleep heals, so sleep it is.

Goodnight friends,

Love,

Vivi

For Texture Tuesday. Thank you Kim Klassen for this extremely beautiful new texture "Shades of November."

London on a grey, misty day.

100 Pictures #24 "opening"

From my archives for 7DOS texture.

One of my earliest memories. On the radio one day we heard that a bus had jumped across the gap as Tower Bridge started to open. I'd never been there (we lived in the suburbs) so the next day my lovely mum took me to London just to see the bridge. To my huge excitement we saw the bridge open while we were there. Of course, it's easier to see this now as a website lists the times when the bridge is due to open. The story of the bus is at

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Buses_route_78

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Kim Klassen's "luminous" texture.

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" ~ Alice, "Alice in Wonderland"

Eat a few of this little guy's cousin and you could be visiting the land of "FUBAR" just like Alice, very, very soon!

July 2011 MSH Entry - "FUBAR"

Picture with two of Kim Klassen's textures ( 'silence' and 'sweet treat'), created for her 'Texture Tuesday'.

textured with Kim Klassen's dry texture brush, Epiphany

7DOS – Rainy day texture Tuesday - “After the heavy rains, I must rescue my eggs.”