~ ~ ~ Abby and Hopie go to the beach. On Saturday my granddaughter, Abigail, asked if she could come to her Hopie's house all by herself. Of course, I said I would love that! Her older brother, Verne, wanted to go to a friend's house and her younger sister, Natalie, is too young to be away from mum for an overnighter. So...it was me and Abigail for the weekend. She wanted to stay 2 nights! I think she may have been slightly motivated by the need for some alone time and Natalie's late night crying. ~ We cooked homemade cornmeal waffles together for breakfast. When your grandmother is a Montessori teacher you learn to cut your waffles up by yourself. You can see the concentration on her face. I didn't help at all! Verne's first day of Kindergarten! I drove up in the morning to watch him get on the bus! He loves it! On Monday morning Abigail and I drove back up to her house. My daughter, Hannah, came over with delicious donuts and Bonnie made a breakfast of bacon, s
Your first shot looks like a beautiful painting. I love what you did with the processing.
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absolutely beautiful photos and lovely texture.
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enjoy your day!
Sugar-frosted seed pods..... :-)
ReplyDeleteLove all the texture play on the top one and oh my that second one looks like a painting, beautiful angle and crop. Super lovely.
ReplyDeleteLovely colors and wonderful texture edit, are those seed pods? Oh how I wished for snow this winter but we didn't get it, so I'll enjoy the snow through your lens :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Gorgeous
ReplyDeleteThat first shot does indeed look like a painting. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteLove the first one picture, colors are so sweet!
ReplyDeleteFantastic shots!!!!!! WOW
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How lovely.
ReplyDeleteWow...great photos and textures. Love the background in the first one especially....
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love the color and how I can count the little fuzzies (Is that a word?) on the seed pods.
ReplyDeleteI adore that second shot.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and creative photography ~ love the first one and wondering if you would tell me what photo edit software you use? Am trying to decide which one to purchase ~ Thanks, xxx
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I love that first shot, it's so soft yet still has great detail!
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteJust lovely soft pictures.
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Mormor
http://www.starbear.no/mormor/2014/03/18/ingen-villblomst-ikke-her/
Beautiful shots!! I really like the first one particularly!!
ReplyDeleteLovely texture on the first one and great design in the second.
ReplyDeleteBoth wonderful pictures, but the seed pod picture is a work of art!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shapes in the first photo. I love that you can see the tiny hairs on them.
ReplyDeleteWow, wow, wow, your pictures are super great!
ReplyDeleteI love the colors, esp the first one!
Brigitte
Beautiful Textures! Am intrigued by your first one. Do you remember which settings you used?
ReplyDeleteI love your photographs. They make me happy.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous textures and images. The first image is my favorite, well done. Enjoy your week!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love what you've done with the dried flower buds. A lovely edit. And the hay in the fields ... a wonderful story.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful and vintage looking. Love your new header. xo Karen
ReplyDeleteWhat a feel to the second picture. Love your new header too.
ReplyDeleteNice compositions, very relaxing to view.
ReplyDeleteStunning! All those rolls of hay (or whatever they are--I'm not a country girl) are intriguing. These are very pleasing images.
ReplyDeleteWOW! I do love this set!! Visiting from Texture Twist.
ReplyDeleteWonderful. I love the winter field.
ReplyDeleteLooks really like a painting! Very beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful choice of textures to enhance the nature shots.... Michelle
ReplyDeletevery pretty effects; I love the snowfields image
ReplyDeletethank you so much for all of the lovely comments. I wish I remembered the process I used on this image. However, I just play around with the textures that I have until I see something I like. I use Picnic which is free on line.
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