Texture Tuesday ... dream

Do not wake me

for I have written the love letter

and tossed it into the sea ...

tis the only way I can remain with thee.

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Techie mumbo-jumbo:

original photo shot with my iPhone

processed with two apps (but I can't remember which ones, sorry)

textured with Kim Klassen's 'sonnet magic reversed'

and French Kiss's 'Ambrotype' from the Glorious Grunge Collection.

Linking today with the 'Dream' eDition over at the Cafe ...

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Tricolors

Definition of tricolored ...

a.  of a dog: having a coat of black, tan and white.

b.  having, using, or marked with three colors.

First known use:  1795

... seen today by the shore, 2012.

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Playing with the theme, 'from above,' in Beyond Layers,

Thanks to French Kiss for her fabulous textures in the Glorious Grunge Collection ...

and to my dear woofie for her patient paws.

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Texture Tuesday...perfectly perforated

Dunno how I got on this garden tool kick all of a sudden...in my previous post you had to read

all about my hori hori obsession and now this...

a portrait of my tried and truest, most favored and special watering can ever.

She's tough 'cause she's galvanized.

Doesn't she have a charming rosette?  THE BEST for sprinkling new seed beds.

And her handle swivels...oooh lah lah.

I once had a dark green plastic can that I loved so very much.  The pour spout was exceedingly long,

styled after those traditional ones from England...with a similar rosette, but upward facing

so the water came out like a small, delicate fountain.

Quinn chewed it tah bits shortly after she came to live here.

"Who me???....I only chew really big sticks."

Now I ask you, is that a face that could tell a lie?

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Linking up with another of Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday parties...

used Kim's lovely watercolor texture, 'Oh my', on both ~ added 'Heirloom' from French Kiss 

(Glorious Grunge Collection) to the black munchmouth.  

Click HERE to see what everyone else has been up to,

so much creativity!

p. s.  I promise for next time that I will not write about another garden tool.

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Soft...

...it's time for another Texture Tuesday photo and the challenge this week

is the 'oh so SOFT edition.'

This is Isla dawg, watching raindrops.  Or at least, that's what I think she was doing.

She's sitting on the very edge of a small dock about four feet above the pond.  It was a new dock 

and she'd never been out there before.  I don't know if she'd ever looked down *into* water before...

she was fairly new to me at the time so I was still discovering

what she knew...and what she didn't...

like how she barked at waves,

didn't like to chew on hard things,

and lived for love over any other form of reward.

It was a gentle rain that afternoon and I was able to capture (what has turned into) one of 

my favorite shots of her.  Her white ruff is soft as an angora bunny...

that white triangle is such a symbol of her true nature.

It's also a symbol of how she doesn't like her picture taken, something else

I've learned along the way.

If the camera is pointed towards her, she will turn & often gives me her back...

I've re-worked this photo several times since taking it in 2009.  

The straight out of camera shot is

so  b.o.r.i.n.g.  Here's a very lackluster interpretation I did back then...

isn't it just so darn obvious my struggle with digital?

Ha! charting my photographic genealogy!

One of the most exciting things in learning about all the tools available for the "digital darkroom"

is the newfound ability to bring an image around to the way the moment  felt  to me.

That was my joy in the chemical darkroom, too...

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Today's tools?  Kim Klassen's texture 'embrace' paired with a texture from

French Kiss from the 'Glorious Grunge Collection.'

Is it worth noting...I'm probably not *done* with this photo yet...

it may show up here again at some point, dressed in new textures.  :>]]

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