"If you judge people, you have not time to love them." ~Mother Theresa
PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY
Link--->PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY ~ LOUD
Our host this week is Tint
and the theme she has chosen is:
LOUD
Welcome back Tint...
You were missed!!!
Wind roars
Waves crash
Rhythmically loud
Calming my soul.
Taken with my Kodak Z740 Digital Camera 11-21-08 on that visit to Monterey
The 13th of this month
our Gator has a Birthday!
There is not a one of us around here
that don't have a Gator story
(and they are all so good!!!)
I just want to thank him for being my friend
and always being there
when I have needed help
(or, as in the case of MM ,
being there to catch me if I fell)
Thank you, Gator for all you do and all you are!
AND HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Now on with the picture...
I took the pictures below:
1.
of course taken from the net
and than enlarged in Gimp...
2.
Stolen from Luxy (Monica) with permission of course
One of her many great pictures of our Gator.
~*~
Now that Rita has created a monster ,
next of course I went to GIMP
(where, even though I am so lost, I love it!!!!)
Enlarged the gator eyes picture.
Put Monica's picture over it.
Erased the space between his hat and his shoulder.
Made the top layer 52% transparent.
Saved it and went to Picnik and added the frame and saved.
Than turned it all black and white and saved.
Went to Photobucket edit and added the words.....
My Mono Monday #45:
MY MONO MONDAY PLUS #31:
(LOL ~ I GUESS THE PLUS IS IT HAS A LITTLE COLOR)
WISHING EVERYONE A GREAT
GATOR'S BIRTHDAY WEEK!!
LET'S CELEBRATE OUR GATOR!!!
PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY
(PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY ~ TEXTURE Link)
Heather is our host this week
and the theme she has chosen is:
TEXTURE
*~*TEXTURE IN THE SAND*~*
*Taken with My Kodak Z740 Digital Camera in December 2007
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MONO MONDAY PLUS #30 ~
LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES
I am so excited this week... for so long now I have wanted to learn to layer... and now thanks so much to Rita... I can do it!!! okay it is just a beginning.. but you have to start somewhere....
This is a GIMP & PICNIK production:
I started with these three pictures..
1.
This picture I took for Picture Perfect Friday ~ Intricate
2.
A Picture I got off the net
3.
Another from the net (had to enlarge this one)
Thanks to Rita, I took them to GIMP.... put these layers together...erasing the back grounds of the top two layers and coming up with this... well, after taking it to Picnic to Make it an over all Sepia and Softening (50%) this is what I ended up with:
FINDING YOUR NOTE
A short story by William Saroyan is titled "The Man Whose Wife's Hair Was Too Long But Whose Understanding of Music Was Too Short." If you
think the title strange, listen to this:
In the story, a husband plays the cello and never changes notes. He just continues to repeat the same note without variation.
His wife is driven to distraction and finally protests: "Why do you play the same note over and over and over again? Other cellists play different notes."
"Other cellists play different notes," her husband replies, "because they are trying to find the right one. I've found mine."
Ahhh, the beauty of finding your note! I think I could like him. Finding your note is something like finding your purpose in life or landing where you need to be.
Philosopher James Allen advised, "Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it." He could have said, "Find your note and stay with it."
I believe that is an important part of being happy. Like Helen Keller says, true happiness is attained "through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
In music, staking your claim on one note will drive everyone around you nuts. But finding the right note in life, and giving yourself to it, can be a source of unending joy.~Your Life Support
~ Steve Goodier
Wishing Everyone
a Great Week Ahead!!!
TWO POUNDS OF ENTHUSIASM
Anonymous. I'd like to meet that person sometime. Anonymous has come up with some of the funniest and pithiest expressions I have ever heard. And he (or is it she?) can also be so deeply profound at
times.
Like these words from Anonymous about what enthusiasm can do for us:
"Indifference never wrote great works, nor thought out striking inventions, nor reared the solemn architecture that awes the soul, nor breathed sublime music, nor painted glorious pictures, nor undertook heroic philanthropies. All these grandeurs are born of enthusiasm, and are done heartily."
I'm reminded of that great 18th century founder of Methodism, John Wesley. When asked how he drew such large crowds of people to hear him
preach, he responded, "I set myself on fire and they come out and watch me burn!" People are drawn to enthusiasm.
Where there is no enthusiasm, there is no passion. Where there is no passion, there is no great living.
Are we meant simply to be satisfied with mediocre lives? From antiquity to the present, indifference has stolen from too many people the chance to do something important with their lives. Their
indifference inspires little energy to pursue something truly worthwhile.
One woman went to the market and asked for two pounds of sausage. The clerk yelled at the butcher, "Two pounds of enthusiasm!"
"Why do you call it that?" the bewildered customer asked. "Because he puts everything he's got into it," the clerk said.
In your daily activities; in your relationships with family, friends and colleagues; in anything you think is important -- what would
happen if you "put everything you've got" into it?
Are you ready to find out?
~Your Life Support
by Steve Goodier
PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY
(Click here for Picture Perfect Friday ~ Collective)
Heather has chosen the theme:
COLLECTIVE
(Welcome Back Heather!!!!)
taken this morning with my Kodak Z740 Digital Camera... Only alteration was slight cropping and frame added in Picnik
My Change
