View from a window at Christmas time.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning
How about beginning again.
I am officially retired, I guess. Lost both of my part-time jobs that I had in 2013 last month but just started collecting a not very substantial social security payment early.
I really am po’ now, but no longer a girl. I just liked the title. It sounds better than Po’ Woman Shines. It also seems better to be poor if you are younger. When you’re older it somehow screams that you have failed in life.
Thank God I don’t consider life pass or fail. It’s just life. I have had my ups and downs, good times and bad and I have never been a slave to money, though I have worked very long and hard in my life.
I still buy my lotto tickets and made sure to dig myself out of the 10″-12″ blowing and drifting snowfall that hit my area yesterday to purchase them.
So this is how I am beginning 2014. Unemployed and not able to make all the payments needed to stay in my home. I guess I can hang onto it for a while longer, but as soon as we get the spring thaw, I will begin to search for a place I can afford and have to let my super, duper upside down house go anyway they want it. If I can’t rent it out, it’s either signed back over to the bank or a short sale.
I have also promised myself now that I have more time, I can really beef up my website or forget about it.
Post or get off the site is my plan.
Below are some pictures of probably the same weather most of you are having.
Good Luck, God Bless and Happy New Year to Everyone!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
I will not be posting a photo for this photo challenge because I do not borrow other people’s work for any reason.
When I saw the word “Community” I right away thought of my new-found sitcom, “Community!” Even though it just started it’s fifth season yesterday, January 2nd, 2014, I only recently discovered this hidden gem of a comedy series being rerun. I purchased the first four seasons and look forward to the sharp, sometimes hysterically funny humor as well as the sometimes poignantly written dialogs that delve deeply into each of the main Community College characters played by: Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong, and the group’s curmudgeon played by Chevy Chase, still funny after all these years!
I especially love the paint ball episodes! Very well done. If you get the chance to view an episode, you might be hooked too!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
You say Grand, I say ma!
When I think of the word grand, I think of my maternal grandma who helped raise me. The youngest of four daughters born in 1912 to German immigrants that came to America during the turn of the 20th century after first settling in Canada, she was around for the “roaring 20’s” and bathtub gin. Made it through the depression with a modest home after being left to raise her only daughter, my mother, when her husband died of tuberculosis in 1941. She passed away in 1984 of the usual in our family, cancer, after retiring from a long career with one of Detroit’s major newspapers.
I remember the fabulous gifts she received from the editor and his wife, Lee and Tina Hills, at Christmas time as a thank you for her additional services for them by hand addressing their many Christmas cards each year. She was selected because of her exquisite handwriting skills. Something I did not inherit and partially due to the fact of being made to use my right hand as a lefty. She and my Aunt Ruth taught me the art of sewing and organic gardening when I was a very young child. Skills that have not gone to waste all these years. I don’t know what I would have done without my precious grand ma, my rock.
The following are some interesting photographs of my grandma through the years.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light!
It was written that God said “Let there be light” and so started the world in a “big bang!”
The Bible states there are many references that Jesus made to light being truth because truth represented holiness. Many people that have died and come back have mentioned going toward a light and there might be a reason for this. Jesus wanted all of His children to walk in the light and to be a light for others.
Light is very important to all of us. We need light to see, we need the light of the sun to grow our food and to be healthy. As photographers, we know how crucial exact lighting is to our end results.
I believe that we all need to be raised in truth and light for what good is a life lived that does not make the world a better place for you being here?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
I have only made cinnamon rolls a couple of times in the last 40 years or so. I stopped trying because the dough was never soft enough and they never turned out well at all even though I followed the recipes to the letter.
This may have been the problem.
After refusing to pay what Cinnabon charges for a sweet roll I decided to try one more time while changing up the basic recipe. I was very pleasantly surprised to finally have made a batch of cinnamon rolls that were tender and delicious, an unexpected delight!
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Please do not over bake them or they will be on the dry side. That is what happened with my next batch even though they still were tasty.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
Many years ago I was designing various graphic images on other wars on terror. This one was war on terror in the home to bring attention to domestic violence. I layered images on some of the text before adding to the computer graphic image.
The base was a picture taken in a cemetery that was layered with busts of angels and parts of computer altered photographs placed at the top. I then layered the altered designer text in place.
I can work for hours altering and layering pictures hoping for that perfect combination.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
I like to fool around with adding animation to part of my photos like these by cutting and “filling” other pictures or color combos and then animating only part of the picture. Gives eerie effects depending on light, shadows, color, etc. Hope you get some ideas for your software. I am happy to answer any questions as to how they were created as well as planning many “how-to” posts way overdue.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit
I have only one real vice and that is ice cream. My favorite is Moosetracks by almost anyone or Michigan Deer Traxx and Caramel Deer Traxx by Hudsonville in Michigan. The habit I have developed over the years is eating it after bedtime. I will wake up an hour our two after going to bed and get myself a small bowl which is quite insane since I have already brushed and flossed and even though I rinse with water afterwards, I can just imagine what it is doing to my teeth! Bad habit that tastes so good!
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You
Po' Girl Shines 
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