Dancing with the Dawn

O lovely light, that dances with the dawn
In twinkling golden slippers on the lawn.

Nancy Richey Ranson

Lucky Number Seven

This mitten kitten actually has seven toes!

Mitten Kittens

Two day old Mitten Kittens

Praying for Rain

Dear God . . .
I don't ask for much . . .
just a little green grass . . .
if you could send us some rain . . .
and cooler temperatures . . .
it would help a lot . . .
thanks for listening . . .
with love . . .
Mandy

Bricolage :: Moon Eclipse

This texture was created from the following photo of what is apparently called a concrete hoe . . . looks kinda like an eclipse of the moon to me . . . if you find a use for this texture, please do share . . .

32 days in a row and counting

Our forecast for the next 7 days . . .
unfortunately, it looks like we might be breaking the 1980 record of 42 days in a row of triple-digit temperatures . . .

DFW Weather

Then and Now

This is my 1st attempt at a Then and Now photo . . . I obviously have a lot of work to do to figure out this method . . . I was not going to use this, but then decided to go ahead and journal about my journey thru figuring out this process . . . I tried this with my Canon Rebel T1i . . . did not like the results . . . looks like I need a wide-angle lens (which I do not yet have) . . . and need to take the camera off the auto setting . . . this was one of two photos taken with my little pocket digital camera . . . it has a wide angle setting . . . and it automatically compensates for the depth of field . . . I just did not want to stay outside very long in that 112° heat . . . so did not mess with the whole project more than a few minutes . . . the photo of my Bennie riding Yuma was taken probably 10-15 years ago (need to find the date) . . .

The photo collages (created in Picasa) above and below show the same photo of Bennie riding Yuma . . . and a photo from February of 2010 showing the same pasture across the street from my house . . . in an apparent attempt to help us think cool thoughts, the news guys keep showing video from the Super Bowl Snow Storm of February 2011 . . . so I drug out my snow photos from the year before . . . think snow!

One thing is for sure . . . creating a Then and Now photo in Picasa is a lot easier (and cooler!) than actually doing the photo outside . . . if anyone has any hints on doing these Then and Now photos, I would like to hear them . . . and FYI . . . the weatherman just said that it is still 103° in Dallas as of 9:41 p.m.!