Evening in Paris

I am playing around with posting from my phone and with my phone's camera. I have a small series of "niche photos" started and will experiment with posting them from my phone. This is an old Evening in Paris perfume bottle I have had since high school.



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Quiet

Playing with one of the camera apps on my phone, wishing I had words to say.

Change

I've been digging through old emails collecting quotes from a particularly wise friend. There are so many I could use! I am not sure I am totally satisfied with the way these look but I am happy to have created something with my hands again, using paint, chalks, glue and a charcoal pencil. I did them on playing cards (ATC size) and then scanned them in and did a few things to them in Photoshop. I printed them up at the 4x6 size and the colors look really good. I am thinking I wish I had made the font for the words a teensy bit smaller. But hey, at least I am doing something again!

Blah, Blah, Blah

I scanned buttercups earlier in the spring and now have combined them with an old letter I also scanned, and a photograph of an angel statue in a cemetery. It's all very small because I was just seeing what I could do.  And right now I have no words to add to make them an official "thang".

I had the day off today and tomorrow it is back to the grindstone. I really wish I could get a few days to be home by myself and get a few things done around here. I never seem to be too committed to doing what I need to do on the weekends. Sigh.

Friday!!

I took this picture with my iPhone and then manipulated it in one of the photo apps I have. Unfortunately I don't remember which one I used and can't duplicate this affect!

I've been looking at all the improvements they have made to Blogger and I am excited about them. I may work this weekend on transforming my template. It is always kind of scary to make changes to the blog and I have not done anything on here in such a long while so we shall see what happens. If you happen to stop by and things look odd, please let me know in the comments or send me an email. 

Contemplating the Second Half of the Year

(while simultaneously trying to remain in the present)

Here it is, the eve of the second half of the year, the eve of the first day of the third quarter, the eve of the first day of the rest of my life. 

I'm fighting some of the same old battles. Depression, for one. I can't seem to get my act together. 

I don't feel like I have time for some of the things I want to do, I feel totally self-absorbed. 

I don't know what direction I want to go with my blogging. It's not like it really matters in the big scheme of things. 

I want to be seen and known, I don't want to be seen and known. Such angst! I'm going to try to just write and post without thinking too much about who is reading what I write (or not reading it). 

I really like the new editor they have in blogging, and several of the other improvements that have been made. I'm kind of wanting to change the look of my blog. I've experimented a bit but have yet gotten a design that completely satisfied me. 

I'm also wanting to figure out how I can blog from my phone. 

The fence photo was taken on an excursion I took with my parents and sister to buy mayhaw juice to make jelly with. We had a good time that day, and I got a lot of good pictures. I am overdue for another outing with my camera. 

Okay, that's enough for today! Who knows when I will be back, but I will be back...

It's Been a While...

I think I have a few more of these I have not posted yet. I like the way this one turned out.