2013.08.30 Five random facts about me

Linking up with A Rural Journal for Random Five Friday (five facts about me) ...

1.
I LOVE coffee.

2.
I love having polished nails.

3.
I should NEVER attempt to polish my nails in the morning after two mugs of coffee.

4.
My husband, Vince, and I went camping last weekend for the first time this year.

Seems like something always came up to keep us home.

Glad it finally happened; we had a great time.

We especially loved our best-ever iced cappuccinos (made with coffee ice cubes, too). 

Link here:  The Smelly Gourmet in Metamora, Indiana.

5.
While on our camping trip, Vince found a great used bookstore in Rising Sun, Indiana.

You can check it out on FaceBook by searching for "Paradox City Books and Games"

(use the full name when searching).

There is a photo of Vince and me on their FB page with the books

we bought last Friday (August 23).

2013.08.26 Onwards

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

~ Edward Weston

You own this moment. This feeling is yours. The future is bright. Onwards.

~ AONC Chris Gillibeau

I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back.

So let's keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us.

 ~ Philippians 3:14-15a

[ photo of ferris wheel processed with Perfect Effects 4 LightLeak3 ]

2013.08.19 The biggest impact

If anybody gets in my way when I’m making a picture, I become irrational.

I’m never sure what I‘m going to do--only that I want that picture.

~ Margaret Bourke-White

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

~ Danny Wallace, Yes Man

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much.

~ Luke 16:10a

[ photo of  co-op processed with Perfect Effects 4 Arkham 60 DawnTrader Dreamland 60 ]

2013.08.16 Five random facts about me

Linking up with A Rural Journal for Random Five Friday (five facts about me) ...

1.  I love Converse All-Star shoes.

My first pair were lime green, then red, then back to lime green.

This year I bought a black pair (with rainbow edging).

2.  I have to limit my time playing computer Solitaire and Free Cell.

3.  I’ve been in a book group since July 1996.

4.  Living on water whether a pond, lake, river, or ocean

is a dream I have not yet realized.

5.  I like taking photos, but I love processing them in PhotoShop Elements more.

2013.08.13 Not everyone sees it

There are 3 key things for good photography:

the camera, lighting, and ... photoshop.

~ Tyra Banks

  

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

~ Confucius

Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best

by filling your minds and meditating on things

true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious –

the best, not the worst;

the beautiful, not the ugly;

things to praise, not things to curse.

~ Philippians 4:8

[ photo of brick wall:  processed with Perfect Effects 4 Earth 50 ]

2013.08.09 Five random facts about me

Linking up with A Rural Journal for Random Five Friday (five facts about me) . . .

1. I had a PET/CT scan today so I’m radioactive

and have to stay 6 feet away from people

(just for 6 hours).

2. The folder where I initially download all my camera photos is e.m.p.t.y.

This rarely happens.

3. Most of my clothes come from Goodwill and other secondhand stores.

4. I became addicted to “Andy Griffith” on NetFlix

while vegging for three months during cancer treatments.

I still watch an episode every morning during breakfast.

5. My grown daughter is living and working 1300 miles from me.

I am very proud of her.  I also miss her terribly.

p.s.  coming up with 5 random facts about me is harder to do than it would seem.

[ photo:  chalk handprints by my two grandkids and their friend on the garage door.

processed with Perfect Effects 4 OrtonHearsAWho 50 and  Earth 50 ]

2013.08.07 Embrace light

Light makes photography.

Embrace light. Admire it. Love it.

But above all, know light.

Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

 ~ George Eastman

One moment the world is as it is.

The next, it is something entirely different.

Something it has never been before.

~ Anne Rice

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit ...

~ Acts 2:4a

2013.08.03 Will never come again

Our job is to record, each in his own way,

this world of light and shadow

and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

~ Edward Abbey

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

~ Celia Thaxter

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world."

~ John 8:12