This my my version of a cake with teal, lime green, and brown flowers. It didn't get picked up before I left on Monday so I'm not sure if this is really what they wanted or not. But I'm happy with it. Brown flowers are hard, but I like the way these turned out.
This is my favorite cake from Monday. My directions on this one was yellow and peach roses. I made another one almost exactly like this one to put out in the cake case.
We had a cloudy, cool, windy day today. I didn't go outside except to water the dogs.
I spent most of the day today cooking. I did take a nap and wash a couple of loads of clothes, and catch up on some computer stuff. I finally took time to check my iStock account, and was happy to note that I had sold another photo. It was one of the tomato worm from last year. I haven't uploaded any photos in a long time. Too time consuming. I should go down to my sewing room and do some sewing tonight, but I don't know if I will make it. I will more than likely go to bed early. There is always tomorrow!
I took this shot of Lady on Saturday before I left for work. I had to take it through the glass in the back door to keep from waking her up. I was supposed to have Monday off, but they ask me to work anyway. It wasn't too bad. We got the orders done and several cakes for the cake case, too. I worked by myself today. I had a lot more orders than we usually do on Monday. Today I felt really good about every cake I decorated. I felt like I had done the best I could do. Everyone seemed really happy when they picked up their cake, so that was nice, too. I did make a couple of unique cakes that I took pictures of, but I will wait until tomorrow to post the pictures. I want to go watch Monday night football!
I was going through some photos I took at Tumacacri Mission a few weeks back and I saw a lot of photo with diagonal lines. So I'm just going to post a couple for this quest. For this one I changed it to black and white added some noise and artistic stuff and lighting. The diagonal lines are the stones on the grave site.
I played a little more with the next photo. I selected the church and didn't select the brick tower. Then I changed the church to black and white, worked some on the contrast and brightness, added an artistic filter and erased the black and white from the top arch and the two diagonal columns. By added color to the the diagonal lines I wanted to push the viewers eye up to the arch and the cross on top of the church.
In this photo the main subject the pots are in a diagonal line. In the original photo the pots where in a dark shadow. I cropped the photo then selected the shadow and lightened it and added saturation. Then I selected the light wall that was too light, added contrast, darked the highlights and added saturation. Now the shadow looks more like a stain or paint on the all and less like a shadow.
The last photos is of the columns supporting the covered over the walkway for the visitor's center. In this photo the diagonal line formed by the columns draws the eye to the door.
From Wired:
COOKIE!!!
Cookie Monster is no doubt the least good-for-you part of Sesame Street but it was always my favorite. And then there’s Oscar the Grouch, who’s already been the subject of a Geek Dad post.
One of us.
Likely the Cookie Monster is the favorite of many others too, since Google placed him on their homepage to celebrate the show’s 40th anniversary, which is Tuesday, November 10, as new segments will begin airing on PBS stations.
There are preview clips available at the official website linked above but, be warned, there is video that turns on instantly, so if you’re not in the mood for Ernie, you might want to hit the mute button.
Realizing Sesame Street is 40 years old is a bit of a shock to me, because having watched it as a kid, it reminds me that I’m old, or at least growing older.
But in addition to my own memories of the show, I also have memories of watching the show with my kids, which, in a way, marked my turning point into true adulthood.
Though the kids are currently of the age where they wouldn’t be caught dead admitting they loved anything about Sesame Street, I did pry from my teenage daughter an admission that, yes, she watched and that, yes, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch were her favorites.
My twins also had a couple of favorites that I wanted to recommend. The first, Sesame Songs: Sing Yourself Silly, is great from an early age and still makes me smile today. I used the video when my kids were overtired but refused to nap. It mellowed them out and allow me some peace for a little while. The second, Elmo Saves Christmas, is more recent, and especially good for the Christmas holiday, if you don’t have it.
I like this movie because it tells kids why you can’t have Christmas every day.The kids liked it because they were entertained by Santa, reindeer, and Elmo and they didn’t mind the lesson with it.
Which, come to think of it, is Sesame Street in a nutshell.
Which character is your favorite?
While I was outside with the dogs yesterday, that were poking around at something in the yard, so I went over to see what it was. This furry little creature looks like he is sunbathing, but I think he was dead. My hubby found two more dead animals over by the garden this morning. We have had a few mice in the house this fall, but not too many. We still have cats, but the dogs make them stay away from the house in the sheds. One of the females has a litter of half grown kittens. Bet they are wild!
It was absolutely beautiful here today, but I didn't get to enjoy very much of it. It was already 70 degrees when I left for work. We were swamped with cake orders again today. I worked on today's orders for a couple of hours, then I had to start working on cakes, etc. for our cake case because it was empty. As a result, I have to go in and work tomorrow. If I had been able to help with tomorrow's cakes today, I might have been able to stay home tomorrow. Oh, well. We didn't have any plans anyway.
Gees can you believe this is the 78th Photo Quest? Seems like I started this just a few months ago. I thank all the loyal members for all their great photos and for teaching me more about photography.
For this weeks quest lets look at diagonal lines and how they contribute to a photo. You can use diagonal lines to draw to eye to your subject or the lines can be your subject. The human eye natural views an image by going from left to right. By placing a diagonal line from left to right you are using that natural view to your advantage by now drawing the eye to your subject. Make it easy for the viewed to know what your subject is.
Can you look at your photos and know what the subject is? Do you look for the subject of your photo in your view finder or LCD before you click the shutter? Do you remember the rule of thirds?
Now that I've filled you with questions....here is this week's quest. Take some photos using diagonal lines. Photos can be any that you have taken in the last year. If you can't find a photo with diagonal lines or can't find a subject with diagonal lines around use a photo software to make some lines. No excuses this time.
Here is a great article on diagonal lines http://digital-photography-school.com/using-diagonal-lines-in-photography. Any questions...please ask! Take care and have a wonderful week.
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Today was a wonderful, perfect fall day. Warm and sunny. And I didn't have to go to work until this afternoon. So this morning I was able to do some cooking and some sewing and after lunch, I grabbed my camera to go out and see what I could find. I really like the way the sky fades from a dark blue at the top of the photo to a very pale blue at the bottom. No editing, except cropping.
Most of the leaves have already fallen off of the sycamore trees. This one is hanging on for another day.
Found this fellow lurking on the side of a tree. Does anyone know what kind of insect he is?
Most of our fall color has faded and most of the trees have lost their leaves but our bald cypress is just getting started. There is a shallow layer of needles under the tree, but the color in the ones left on the tree is stunning. In the sun, they look like polished copper.
I only worked five hours today, which was okay by me. I'm working on the sleeves of my granddaughter's dress now, so I may be able to finish it this weekend. I go in to work at 11:00 tomorrow, so I'll have some time, but I will probably spend most of it cooking. Hubby loves mashed cauliflower, so I'll probably do that, at least. Looks like we will be busy tomorrow. We have a whole stack of orders and one of the girls is out with H1N1. Sunday looks pretty crazy, too, but I'm not scheduled to work. I'm hoping for another nice day so I can get out with my camera again.
Yikes there were some very scary photos this week! Thanks to all the folks that send in photos, it was so much fun to see what you were doing for Halloween. I miss Halloween so much. The department I worked the for last 9 years didn't do much of anything for Halloween. Now that I'm retired well, it was even less. We are too far out in the country to get trick-a-treaters so it was like any other day here. Darn it...I did get to see some cute photos of my grandsons dressed up.
Back to the quest I didn't see a bad photo in the group and we had tons of photos this time. Darcy made my job easy by posting only one photo, thanks so much girl. Her photo of her daughter as Wednesday Adams showed tons of creativity. Darcy's daughter played with the photo in photoshop to make it spookier! Great work there.
Then along came Cap'n wow frozen pumpkin fields and a great jack-o-latern...amazing work on that. My favorite was the jack-o-latern photo. Taking the photo at night gave it a real Halloween glow.
Next was Yan with his great photos of Halloween in Japan. My favorite was the friend dressed as an alien...great capture in a dark bar.
Now it was Amy Sue...boy she made my job very hard with all her great photos! Thanks for the great photos of the kids trick-or-treating downtown. What a great place she lives that the merchants give out candy..keeping it safe for the kids...very nice! It was so hard to pick a favorite...so I picked two. I loved the pumpkin and hunted house photo. The low light gives the photo a very nice Halloween spooky feeling. Then I really like the Halloween old photo of the two kids under the movie poster. Nice work there with making the whole photo feel very old.
Wow then there was Metz....so many, many photos my friend. I felt like I was there with you enjoying seeing how your children had so much fun. Of couse it helps that her kids are so cute! So my favorite of all the photos was Halloween 048 with the red tree behind your daughter! That was an amazing photo, loved the red leaves that matched your daughters outfit. Nice work there!
I have really missed posting my meager thoughts and activities (such as they are) on my blog. I have also missed going out with my camera. So I'm doing both today, and making you sit though it! LOL
This is the table that is out on my screened in porch. Not a necessarily attractive arrangement, but I liked the way sun was slanting in.
I still have a few petunia plants on the south side of the house that haven't given up. The leaves are protecting them from freezing.
Here's some of the leaves that have collected in the bird bath. We live on the edge of a rise, so all of the leaves blow out of our yard. The wind does the raking for us, thank goodness!
Time to go fix dinner. I'm going to try meatloaf tonight. Hope I can get it mushed up enough that hubby can eat it!
I worked by myself on Monday and Tuesday of this week, but didn't have time to be very creative. I did do this cake, which I was rather proud of.
I'm finally digging out from under the pile of paperwork that has accumulated on my desk. I still have a way to go, but at least it is all on my desk now and not spilling over onto the floor. I think I have most of the bills paid. Still need to check my bank balances. I had received an Etsy order back in October, but didn't have time to get it shipped until today. I was totally out of practice. I hadn't received any orders in some time. I've been too busy to make any new things and get them listed. I'm still working on dresses for my granddaughter.
I'm also sending a lot more time fixing food than I usually do. I haven't found much good information on the web about soft food diets, but I did find a good site today about making homemade baby food. I've been afraid to try anything with meat in it. I'm going to give it a try today and see how it goes. My handheld blender has been a big help. I'm going to try to add a little ham to some navy bean soup. I'll keep you posted. Thanks for all your prayers. If you think of any good ideas for soft food, let me know. If we can keep body and soul together without surgery, that is the way we are leaning now. He will still have a test on Monday, and a consult with his doctor on Wednesday.
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