Watch List

These two houses I love to watch as they bloom, always something spectacular. (Click images for larger views)

The first one I call Rose Cottage.  One of the occupants teaches piano, so in the summer you get two pleasures just for walking by: the scent of roses, and the sounds of music.
This one is very manicured and has gardeners caring for it.

Below is an organic raised bed garden and I love the three colored trees growing together.  Lovely color in the spring.

The trees caught my eye in this picture. That clump of trees and the simple delicate flower just seemed perfect.

And last I almost missed this geranium against that red door.

Night and sleep tight,
Jaybird
Love is in the air, breath deeply.

Galloway Give-a-way

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I took some time to play with graphics after a long spell of being absent.  I actually had to re-learn a few things about PSP and Expressions before I could get the image in my head on canvas.  The outline is a skeletal stroke in Expression v2.  You draw the image and then you can apply any bitmap stoke.  I wanted something that looked like a child had drawn it.  The outline is quite large, you should be able to change it for your project and make other things from it.  The sticker is 500 pixel but also 300 dpi.  Right now my freebies will be Personal Use only.  I hope this is a nice addition to your cow collection.

Jaybird

Love is in the air, breath deeply

 Credits:
Aussie Designs poser girl and stick boy
Delicious Scraps for designer preview template
Dozibaer Designs smilie face element
Kylie M. Designs life story journaling qp
Scrappin Cop fonts, alphas, elements

Belted Galloways

My dog loves to walk past these Belted Galloway cows.  He's a little afraid of them, but just loves to visit their farm.

He did something different today that he hasn't done before.  Always when I try to stop and take a picture, he gets very animated and wants to play, but today I told him to get up on the stump and STAY, SIT and he DID.  Was I surprised.  Call him Photo Man.

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This evening I was searching for Belted Galloway Art and came across a few items I didn't realize the cow fan could purchase.

 

I did a memory painting of a Belted Galloway a few years ago, maybe I should put it on ebay.  That's all for tonight except during our evening walk, I thought it might rain but instead decided to SNOW.

Jaybird

Love is in the air, breath deeply.

Daffodils Everywhere

On our walk today the predominating flower blooming was the Daffodils.  From on doors, to walkways, to roadways, to containers.  Yellow everywhere.

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I'll post more of our walk tomorrow, but for tonight, sleep tight.

Jaybird

Burns Our Boy

This is my favorite picture of Burns.  I put the sunglasses on him as a challenge back in 2008 and the page kit I used was a freebie, but sorry I can't remember where I got it from.  If I find the credit I will edit this post accordingly. (Click image for a larger view) I only have this picture now because it is the wallpaper on one of my older computers.  Thank goodness I rarely throw anything away.  My software is so old that it only runs well on the older XP machines.  Currently I use a laptop running Vista but I don't dare put any of my older graphic programs on it, as others have said they just don't work well.  So, I just fire up an older computer when I want to be creative.

My daily walk was to the doctor.  I stopped driving several years ago and fortunately I am able to walk to all my appointments, well that isn't true.  I do have to take a cab to the dentist; it is only $6.00 so I don't feel it too hard in the pocketbook.  I thought I would miss driving, but quite the opposite; it feels wonderful walking and being 'in the present' with nature.  Although, I haven't taken any good pictures of late because of the cloudy and a bit colder weather.  I was stopped by some tourists today asking for directions (they were walking also and wondered which way to go).  They were enjoying looking at the old homes along the ocean.  I told them they could go left or right and just keep walking and eventually they would end up right back here where they started.  What luck - it's hard to get lost in this town.


Later, Jaybird
Love is in the air, breath deeply

Disney Safari

I've been on the Disney Safari twice now and I still haven't been able to get a good picture of the hippos.  They are usually buried in mud or off in a distance were they escape detection.  So when Em-ka Designs offered this sweet FTU QP of her Jungleland kit I knew I had to scrap my big adventure.  It may take me a few more revisions before I am happy enough with the image to put it in the "for print" folder, but at least I am getting my feet wet and giving scrapping a try. (Click image for a larger view.)

Credits
The freebie and also elements from the FTU Jungleland Kit 

Jaybird
Love is in the air, breath deeply.

Me Moosies

Just when I thought it was safe to put these guys out to pasture, the weather turned cold today so here they are providing warmth, comfort and a lot of enjoyable humor.  My daughter loves character slippers.

I used the Deer Friends photo card from NitWit. It was a wonderful sale she had this Spring and I stocked up on many fun kits to play with. (Click image for larger view)

Jaybird

Love is in the air, breath deeply.