from 4th grade to young man before my eyes

 I can't even believe that my two boys are out of school for the Summer already!
My youngest has been growing taller, stronger and wiser right before my eyes...those are sure signs of growing into a young man I would say.

But he's my baby, I argue to myself...' I am supposed to let him grow up and find his own way in the world', I argue back.

But It's my job to protect him, I worry...'but he will never learn unless he is allowed to make choices while he is young and while I am close to guide him and help him if he fails' I reason...

He is my last child~ my baby and as hard as I try to hang tight I feel my concerns ease as he watches the evening news and understands what is happening in the World...

I feel my concerns ease as we talked about the birds and bees and he didn't giggle at the names of  body parts {I did though, oops}...

I feel my concerns ease as he was picked to be in the TAG (talented and gifted) program at school and received superior test results throughout the year...OK I'm bragging here but I am proud of this guy!...

I know he only graduated the 4th grade but his teacher wrote in his yearbook that she expected to see his name again someday attached to something great...he's just that kind of kid!

For the above photo I used two of Kim's textures "silence" and "grannys cupboard"...

Hope you are enjoying your first day of Summer!XXOO

Cheery pink cherry blossoms

I had my mind set on sharing cherry blossoms with you today...but you'll have to make do with a pix of my cherry blossoms from last year because we had a rather freakish wind storm that blew all the current blossoms right off the tree...

WhOOsh in an instant and with camera in hand, they were gone before my eyes, skipping off down the road and escaping over the fence much like the neighbors cat! Hrumph!

Well anyhow...without any further ado...

These blossoms are so pretty in the back corner of our yard/garden. I love it when they bloom every Spring and besides they are so pink and pretty they just make the corner so cheery and bright!

I added a really cool texture layer called "stained linen" from one of Kim Klassen's textures

This week on Texture Tuesday our theme was 'garden'...

Go check out some of the other beautiful photos linked there as well...8]

Hope you are having a super-duper cheery day!

nature unfurled...

This is a photo I snapped earlier this week of a fern frond stretching to greet the Spring in my shady garden...

I just love how it is all curled and spiraled up sort of reminding me of an octopus tentacle...

This photo is layered twice with Kim Klassen's textures...

The first layer is the most recent freebie called "yesteryear"...

then I layered "Golden" at 190 opacity over the top of that and added the text...

The bottom two photos are untouched photos from the same garden spot...so you can compare what a difference the beautiful textures make. 

 Hope you are getting out and enjoying the Spring sights and sounds...you never know what beauty might be waiting for you if you just take a look!

5 things~ touch tuesday

I wanted to use a vintage photo of a hare in celebration of the upcoming Easter season...

I also chose the image of the Hare because of the idea of how soft bunny fur is to touch for my post on Touch Tuesday.... 

Mind you I have never touched a Hare per-se but I figured even if it had rough fur I bet its ears would be velvety soft...and their noses too!

XXOO

Kim Klassen Cafe...Texture Tuesday 

Our  photo must contain at least one layer of Kim's WarmSun texture
this week...

NOTE:

I tend to work a bit heavy handed with my background textures, liking the vintage

 loved-worn feel to them and the above image as well as the one I used last week 

were layered over the photos twice...

I decided trying again using a lighter hand and different approach...and really liked 

the different feel it gave the image and so decided to add that here as a addendum...

Kim Klassen texture warm sun with color dodge layer properties 

Things to share later in the week...

hear:

taste:

smell: