Tomorrow is the d-day, the teeth get pulled.
At this moment I am distracting myself. Catching up with the last season of the 'Big Bang Theory' before the new one starts, playing with Photoshop. Just trying not to think about surgery.
Here's the result of today's playing - flowers - dreamy and vintage.................... The last vestiges of summer. Some of the trees started changing their leaves in August! It is starting to feel more and more like Fall.
Remember the pictures of flowers I took in early May? Here is the link to the original post.
Well I was playing with this picture in Photoshop and used some Kim Klassen textures. I kinda like this!
Hola! Yesterday I had gone out to Lexington, a town in Massachusetts.
I thought I would walk around in the sunshine and take some pictures. The sun was shining, I ran some errands, hoping to take pictures after. I finished the last errand, stepped out of the store and the sunny day was no more. There were fat grey clouds in the sky! I started taking pictures, hoping my luck would hold. Just a few shots taken and it started to rain. And such is life......
Happy Mother's day and a huge shout out to my mom. She is my biggest cheer leader, encourages me in all my endeavors, keeps me going when I want to give up! And yes, I was afraid of her when I was a kid. Being an only child any midemeanors meant I got sternly disciplined and there was no one else to blame :-). But I wouldn't have turned out the way I did without that discipline!
She is also an awesome cook. In my fourth standard (grades are called standards in India) essay I had written "my mother makes delicious food". This had especially intrigued my teacher and she had asked my mom what she made. Fortunately, I did inherit her genes for cooking even though I used to dislike cooking as a teenager.
Thanks for everything mom!
Happy Mother's day!
For the "Being Creative" party I am sharing one of the photos I took yesterday. What will you share?
There are buds on the trees in New England. Tiny little pink buds and a cerulean blue sky.
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It is not snowing but it is very, very cold. So I am thinking of flowers again. Another flower picture from India.
While we await more snow (no more please, really!) I have decided to think of the flowers that are blooming in India - right this moment.
These are pictures I took on my India trip in November.
I am generally not crazy about winter but I am okay with it. This year is a different story. The snow does look beautiful but there are mountains of it every where and driving has become not fun!
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'Home, Paper, Scissors' by Patricia Zapata, another nugget I found at the library. A beautiful book on making decorative paper accessories for the home. The above pink flower is on of the things that you learn to make from this book.
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Because I feel like a kid in the candy store. Because I chance upon books that I might have never met otherwise.
Last year, I bought the Kindle for travel and it is great for travel. It is a small lightweight device which is so much easier to carry instead of lugging many books - because one never wants to run out of reading material and one doesn't know what one will feel like reading :-). But the problem with electronic stores is the lack of serendipity. You will only be recommended books based on previous likes, so the odds of running into a book, that is nothing like anything you have read before, are low.
Last week when I was at the library, I happened upon a book called "Botany for the Artist" by Sarah Simblet. It is a beautiful, beautiful book. I am very fascinated by botanical illustration and even tried my hand at it so when I walked past this book in the library, I had to peek. And the illustrations are stunning. If you ever want to try your hand at it, this book has great photos, instructions and examples. The illustration above is from the book.
So the library is one of my favorite places - such treasures to be found and inspiration abounds.What's your favorite place?
Here's wishing you a Happy New Year!
These lush flowers reminded me of velvet. I wanted to run my hand over the bed to see if they felt like it.
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