Photo Challenge- Anything But a Face!

"We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I heart Faces!- Anything but a face-

- Grayson... headed for adventure..

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Have a great day!

Patsy

Photography Contest .... Pet Faces!

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” ~ Josh Billings

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I Heart Faces~

Photo Contest/Pet Faces
~ Diamond...

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Patsy

Photography Contest .... Paper

"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question."
~ Todd Solondz

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~ I Heart Faces !!

Photography Challenge ~This weeks theme is Paper..

what a beautiful spot for reading... on the Beach at Botany Bay/Edisto Island SC

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Patsy

Monday- All the Spooks are Gone.. a New Month Rushes In!

"Words should be an intense pleasure, just as leather should be to a shoemaker."
~ Evelyn Waugh

"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
~ Ernest Hemingway

"I believe that man will not only endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
~ William Faulkner

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I Heart Faces- weekly photo Challenge-
My Story/Fall
(photo by Tana Holder)

~I love this photo of my grand-daughter.. Maya.... it reminds me that she grows up faster and faster as times moves on.. I love her so much and hate that we are on opposite sides of the country.. her Mom is great at sharing photos and I am kept up to date on her life by phone calls and emails.. Still I feel that I am missing something.. I remember baking pumpkin pies with my own Grandma.. maybe some day Maya and I will bake pies together too.. Until then I sure am thankful for her mom and her camera...

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Microfiction Monday- #55

Welcome to Microfiction Monday,
where a picture paints 140 characters, or even fewer.

"oh Miss Kitty don't be so cranky... I know you wanted mice and not chocolates... maybe Next year if you're good.. you can guide the broom!"
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..~.. JR and JC ready to take on the tricksters for a few chocolaty treats...

~ a group shot of some of my tricksters..HB.. JR..DM..TJ..AC.. Happy Halloween..

Ghostly Photos~

- TJ ... with a ghostly hand pinching his cheek...

~ JR.. ~

the camera decided to give him extra eyes!

~ and Happy Halloween from New Mexico!..

Halloween was a blast even if we did have some ghostly photos when we pulled them up on the computer.. we haven't figured out why there is a tiny hand on TJ's cheek since we had no tiny ones here.. or why JR has an extra set of eyes in one of his photos... creepy to say the very least.. either I have a booger in my house or my camera is haunted.. or something else weird.. I'm not sure I want to know.. after all it was Halloween..

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Patsy

Friday Night.. We Welcomed a Wild Storm!

"And tears are heard within the harp I touch." ~ Petrarch

"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." ~ Ralph Ransom

"Delicious tears! The heart's own dew." ~ Letitia Landon

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"Under the Grape Arbor"

A fat snake lay stretched out..wiggling mouse tail his last bite of supper...
8/5/2010


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Friday Fill~ Ins #188

1. Life is __a crazy ride.. hang on till the buzzer sounds.._.

2. _You can't stop .. you have got to__ keep going.

3. My last text message (or IM) ended in these three words: __Don't make me!_.

4. _French fries __ is what I'm thinking about for dinner sometime soon.

5. On the 1st day of August __we had a hell of a storm___

6. ___I used to be__ lively and energetic.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __Talking to Virginia.. my second best friend..___, tomorrow my plans include __sleeping till the rooster crows___ and Sunday, I want to __do something fun.. But honestly we won't.. same shasha different day..I think that means we are in a rut..___!


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Fix-It Friday #65 • Photo Editing Fun!

~Copyright Restrictions : permission to edit for blog given by the original photographer (Andrea Riley)..... Oh what a sweet little face.. he reminds me a great deal of my nephew..Is he surprised?... Is he angry?.. Is he sad?.. He looks like he might be pouting just a tiny

little bit in this picture.. I traipsed around from blog

to blog looking at what everyone else did to his photo.. I love them all.... but I found that they were all very similar.. I guess that there is only so much you can do with a basic Photography program.. black and white or sepia and a few focus changes.. I gave him a frame.. some sparkling wishes.. and one tear.. I must confess that I'm new to altering photo's.. I really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to that.. Maybe I'll learn something here.. I like to add stuff.. I wanted to add a top hat to him.. or maybe a few hats.. then I remembered that I lost that program when my last computer got sick and died.. and it won't work with this one.. arrrrrrrrrrrgh!..

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Patsy




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Loving Life.. One face at the time!

"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face." ~ Jim Bishop

" Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
~ Kahlil Gibran

~ Each week we are challenged to share a photo containing a face.. we are also given a theme.. The IHeartfaces theme this week is "Random Act of Kindness" It is further explained as a way that one has used their photography to help others.. I almost always have a camera.. on my desk.. in my backpack.. in the car.. and I love faces.. I am constantly snapping children and animals and the old folks.. I have lots of shots that no one knew I got.. I love a sneaky shot...

So on to the story..

I was once a single Mom to three kids.. holidays came and went without much fanfare in our house.. Santa came and brought things they needed and always a special gift.. Birthday parties were small .. But all in all their holidays were celebrated.. and then came Mother's Day.. I insisted that they spend that day with me.. I always cooked us a great meal and I always made a new photo of them for myself on that day.. a reminder to me and them that we had a special bond of love.. I would drag out a child's rocker or brush the ants off of a log.. but somehow I was going to get a great shot of them for that day.. a gift to me.... Mother's days came and went and children grow up and move out.. and then came the others.. friends with children and missing Dads... family with baby~daddies instead of husbands.. Mothers who loved their children.. and yes a few Dads in the same boat.. and holidays with no gifts.. It's not that they didn't have help.. most single parents do have some support system.. Grandparents.. friends.. Crazy aunts.. (that would be me!) but children... especially little children want to give gifts to their Mommies and Daddies too.. they can't if they have nothing to give.. I was babysitting a slew of single parent children when the idea occurred to me during a conversation Emily and I were having.. we going through some "junk" boxes.. she was amazed to find that they weren't junk after all but boxes full of handmade cards and letters and drawings from her and my two boys.. it was just before Mother's day and she confessed to me that she always wished for something to give me beside the colored picture of a flower the school handed out.. Poor thing can't draw a straight line.. She and I together hit on a plan.. out came the old white child's rocker and some fancy hair ribbons.. we dressed all of the daycare children up in the best we had here for them and while we did the photography Dave and Cooper made a "Dollar Tree" run for frames.. I told them just any will do but the guys chose well.. Friday afternoon the children could barely sit still as parents came and left with a special gift.. The children were excited to have a special gift for their Mommies.. Some of the Moms cried.. Emily and I cried together.. we carried on with that tradition for all holidays as long as I ran the daycare.. Many times now I think of all the children out there with no gifts to give except their love.. I wish I could make photo's of them all.. Do you know a single parent? Can you afford a dollar store frame or a small photo album??.. You have no idea how happy you could make a youngster by helping them make a photo project for his or her parent.. The children in my first Photo are Han and Dan.. as you can see they are happy to pose for me.. They are older now and may even forget that Friday so long ago.. when they stood at the window.. excited and happy waiting for their Mama to make it to the door.. where they attacked her with kisses and one small wrapped present.. a picture of them.. smiling and happy.. hearts filled with Love and the joy of having a gift they could give to their Mommy!

~ Project Life encourages us

to make a photo a day in 2010.. photo's that capture the grandest moments of life.. My Life Photo for today is my daughter Emily.. my Baby girl and sometimes partner in photo "crime".. we love to go on Photo walks together..

Thanks for stopping by my world today.. I do hope you enjoyed your visit to my life.. I welcome comments.. Have a wonderful day..

Patsy