Tag: watercolor effect

And here we go!

Happy Anniversary to us!

Messing around.

While visiting Washington State a few weeks back, I took a photo of a beautiful wooden carving that was unceremoniously displayed in the corner of a building at the top of some stairs. Today I uploaded it and played around with it a little bit. I love the result. I think I’ll make some notecards with this image. 🙂

Have a great Friday!

And the original:

A girl and her piano.

Sunday afternoon, Laura treated us to a piano recital at her house – well, a piano concert, really. She has always been a marvelous piano player, but she continues to put up with us singing the Twelve Days of Christmas around her piano every year. 🙂 She’s been taking classical music piano lessons for a number of years now, and her practice and hard work have made her even better.

Her program included:

  • French Suite Vl in E Major Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Sonata No 8 Opus 13 C Minor “Pathétique” Ludwig van Beethoven
  • La plus que lente Claude Debussy
  • Scherzo No 2 Opus 31 B flat Minor Frédéric Chopin

What a treat!

Surfdancing.

I love this pic.

When I got my Mac, I realized that it could only open the windows filesystem on my old USB backup drive in read-only mode.  Not great for doing backups.  I’ll need to reformat it to use it.  But I’ve been procrastinating, because i’m going to have to sort through what’s on there to see what to keep and what to get rid of.  So this week I took the first step – I copied most of what was on the backup drive to my mac to prepare to reformat the USB drive.

Consequently, the next time I opened Picasa, it found ALL the photos that I had just copied and loaded them into its library, which took a while.  But, once it finished, it makes for very easy viewing of many years of pictures.  So, I’ve been spending a lot of time this morning browsing through photos I’ve taken that I haven’t looked at for years.

When I got to this one I thought I’d share it with you.   This is a photo that I took when my sister, Colleen, and her son, Jacob, were visiting about 4 years ago.  We drove down to Port Aransas for the weekend, and stayed a place right on the Gulf-side of the beach.   This is a picture of Colleen and Jacob jumping together in the surf.   I used some piece of software, can’t remember what, to create a water-color effect — oh, and I edited out the oil rig on the horizon :(.  I later printed this and framed it for her.

I guess it’s kind of appropriate, too, because this is Mother’s Day weekend, and she’s a great mom.

I have to smile every time I look at this pic.