The Busy Bee Cafe on Main Street in Ventura, February 10, 2010 (by klk)

The Birch

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Olympus OM1, using Kodak Tri-X developed in ID-11.

Yellow as far as you can see, broken by a few sparse trees

From the front yard.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH, Ledges Trail

This is just a prototype, I guess you would say... trying to fill in a design in a way to make a floor or a wall. But yikes! What a headache!

Now if I dare take it apart, I could redo it with pretty colors... assuming I have the right pieces.

I started stripping the wallpaper from the hall in the new flat and found the original wallpaper. Unfortunatley this means the original plaster so when I removed this the whole wall came off in chunks. O_o

Leaves, shadows and Bark providing Nature's patterns and colours in Panshanger Nature Reserve

Original patterns and tutorials from www.umecrafts.artfire.com

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Pattern @ RequiemArt.com :)

Pasta cruda de colores

A 'defect' in the bark breaks the pattern, and I break mine by opening my eyes to things other than birds. To tell the truth, it's a lot better getting a picture of a bark that I find interesting when waiting for a bird to make it's appearance. :)

This morning when we were out on the safari, I'd forgotten to pocket my WALs and had to make do with the tele. This was at the banks of a fairly large water-body. One of our co-passengers in the jeep got bit by a leech, and we aptly nick-named the water-body 'Leech Lake'.

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Song of the day - Naive, by French band Demians (off their album 'Building an Empire')

summery lolly pop flowers

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This pack includes 12 scrapbook papers with yellow and violet patterns.

On a beach on Hornby Island, BC, Canada.

This formation is called "tafoni" or "honeycomb weathering".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafoni

For lines and patterns

Based on the ideas of prints and making unusual modern cards.

Reading the wikstenmade blog has inspired me to become a better seamstress. I tried to do the pattern maker justice. (^-^)

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Symmetrical pattern with cookies

Interessante rivestimento di facciata

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Deansgate, Manchester.

Pattern left by the receding tide

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Patterns, patterns, and more patterns....

I made this card as part of this month's Hero Arts contest "Try Something New". I've had this "Blossoms" stamp set for a long time, and have NEVER used it!!! I also have a brand new embossing folder (Darice "Damask" 5'x7") that I'd been itching to use. AND, I rarely stamp on patterned paper, so that's something fairly new for me, too!

This card was inspired by several of the beautiful cards Lin has made using the "Blossoms" stamp set on patterned paper. Thanks for the inspiration Lin!!

For details, see stampandink.blogspot.com/2013/01/patterned-paper-flowers....

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I really liked the patterns, depth and dimension the reeds and grasses hold. Someone looking at the photo the other day said they thought it would make an interesting jigsaw puzzle. I think it just might.

This Common (or Purple) Salsify was seen while walking around Swan Lake, in Victoria, B.C. Imported from Europe it was grown for both its flower, and its edible roots and shoots. The variety we knew in Saskatchewan was yellow, and we referred to it as Goat's Beard.

Flintham, Notts. - 6th June, 2014