Thursday, February 24, 2011

spring green...

dreaming of.........


....spring green....






















what are you dreaming of?



Wednesday, February 16, 2011

matters of the heart...

please enjoy this gorgeous orchid that my dear husband gave me for
valentines day.






















thank you,
mr. dan.
i love you
with all my heart.
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one of my favorite blogging friends, suffered and survived a heart attack last week.
there is no doubt,
that he and his family are happy and relieved,
that he has been given a second chance at life...........
this has brought back scary memories for me,
of my own husband's quadruple bi-pass,
of five years ago this month.......and his (our) own second chance.
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keep your heart healthy
and
always full of
love.



Friday, February 11, 2011

snow-hearts...

once again,
tennessee was gifted a peaceful blanket of twinkly snow crystals.
i had fun using my heart lens cover to turn the twinkles into hearts....
and then i had even more fun layering those SNOW-HEARTS ("sn-hearts", if you will) onto some of my other images......
enjoy.
























happy pink and blue
SN-HEARTS
weekend to you!!
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all pink photos taken at Scarlett Scales Shop in downtown Franklin.




Tuesday, February 8, 2011

i heart bokeh...

i have been dying to learn how to make these adorable bokeh hearts....

"bokeh" is the blurry unfocused lights in a photo.
i have been seeing these HEART's around lately and discovered it's not hard to do.









here is a SOOC (straight out of camera) shot of a bird cage and twinkle lights, in my sun room.



here is the same shot,
with a special heart lens hood that i made for my camera
and the photo purposely unfocused.


put something cute in the foreground
and
ta da!
sweet little heart lights floating around in the background!
this is really fun, and easier than i thought.
i can't wait to play around with this some more.
just in time for valentines day.
to learn how to make these bokeh hearts, visit here.
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we are having round four of winter here in tennessee...
or is it round five? i am loosing count.
more snow expected again tomorrow!
and so it goes..........