Learning photography and Photoshop

I like the texture on this rock across the sidewalk from my place. The random Cracks are interesting.

I added red to this picture to try to get it close to what the flower actually looks like. Still didn't succeed, but at least it's pretty.

"Last Man Standing". It's kind of sad to see the flowers Around our house shrivel and die. The one guy in the middle here seems to be thriving, though.

the pink against the Muted background creates a nice focal point. Rather than enhance the pink, I played with the color of the background instead.

I'm still learning how to play with color like I'd like. The purple in the flower looks close, but the blue is still too light. I like how the purple looks like a butterfly too.

This one's interesting to look at since you can still sense the beauty that it once had while it fades. Kind of the "Beginning of the End" and somewhat symbolic, though I'm not sure what it's symbolic of.

more conversations with/to Levi

"DON'T GIVE MAVIS A WASHDOWN WITH FRIDGE WATER!!!" He had just earned Mavis the toy diesel engine back and decided she was dirty, I guess.

I'm glad it was Erin to go handle that one. I was busy trying not to laugh in the sun room.

Figuratively or literally?

Over breakfast this morning: "Levi, close your mouth! ....not with your foot!!"

Yep, Levi was literally doing what his daddy has been known to do figuratively.

Kid Pictures Update

a great way to kill time

So at work there are a lot of times where I have to wait for the computer to finish doing its thing before I can continue with work. Sometimes I'm good about working on homework during those times, but more often I'm surfing the web. In my surfing, I found 2 awesome ways for muppet fans to kill time: The Muppet Wiki and the ToughPigs blog. Then there's my Muppets playlist on Youtube too. That serves the dual purpose of keeping me entertained while I work and keeping me from losing my cool when people make my job harder by not doing their jobs right.

I'm finding out about tons of Muppet specials that I just didn't know existed. Did you know there was a muppet TV Movie last Christmas called "A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa"? I didn't. And I bet it's not for sale anywhere, so I'll have to torrent it and hope it's legal to do that. (I'm constantly debating with myself on the legality of various torrents.)

Congrats all around

Found out this week that the (extended) family is continuing to expand. My Neice Presley will turn 19 in just a few days then get married next month. The engagement will be about a month and a half long, so I hope she can get all her planning done quickly!

Also, my sister Susie is pregnant again. I'm so excited for her to have baby #2. She's due in January.

In other "Holy cow, I'm OLD!" news, my college professor said that one of her students told her that she (the student) can't remember ever NOT having a computer in the house. I remember when Computers weighed a ton, were as big as a preschooler, and had no hard drive, so operated completely off floppy discs. For you kids in the readership (If there are any), yes there used to be square discs that entirely ran the computer. And they were literally floppy in the old days when we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow with barefeet and were grateful. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go recharge my hearing aids and soak my teeth. As soon as I can get up outta this rocking chair.