Wordless Wednesday - Flowers that don't require weeding

This is one garden that is not guilting me for not weeding it this summer!  And rewards me by feeding my muse.  :oD

Hugs!
Kay~

** "Chains do not hold a marriage together.  It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years." ~Simone Signoret

Sunday Stills

It was a foggy day. Now it's a freezing mist/drizzle evening. Winter in Nebraska....







But despite the cold and snow, there is still a little happiness and color in our lives.




Hugs
K~

I'm not giving up my

MERRY CHRISTMAS

joy to anyone.

But if I know of someone that celebrates another holiday
during this time of year, I will be glad to wish them
whatever holiday they want.
Just tell me what it is and I'll shout it to the world
and wish you a grand celebration.

More random photos

It's Wordless Wednesday.
Enjoy!

I **heart** my Digital Camera!

Ok, if you don't care in the least about random photos, then just stop now and go find another blog to read. I won't mind. Really... it's ok. **waiting for the dust to clear**

For the rest of you....

I told you all I'm following The Pioneer Woman's photography blog. A recent "assignment" was to take pre-dawn photos. Miz Booshay, another contributor to the site, has been giving tips on aperture and shutter speed.
This morning I "played" and here are the results:

None of these started out this good, I found some tweaking with iPhoto effects and levels helped a lot. Not as user-friendly or as complete as Photoshop, but usable for now.

Ready for some more?

Again, some "creative" iPhoto tweaking in the color & exposure realm.

And if you are still with me, dealing with exposure and shapes:

I was trying to capture the circles of light in the rectangles.

All this photo taking and tweaking is taking my mind off those cute shoes....maybe....

Farmer-dear is off cutting more soybeans. I helped get him moved to this field with the trucks and am now home with my phone at my side, just in case.
I'm off to prep some meatloaf muffins, new potatoes, acorn squash, spinach salad, both for me, and home-made biscuits. I thought about an apple pie, but there is no vanilla ice cream in the freezer so it'll have to wait until Sunday.

Hugs!
Kay~
––"Never lose your sense of wonder and whimsy,
or you'll lose a part of your soul."
~Eulalie M. Banks

I **heart** Cute Shoes!

What I'm reading now:

How to do Everything
with your Digital Camera
by Dave Johnson





Good Morning Dear Readers!

If you followed me to Blogger from my Xanga blog, you know I LOVE cute high heels. Don't wear them a lot in my day-to-day (it's not easy to chase cows in heels and they get stuck in the ground out in the fields), but I do love them.

Anyway.... thanks to a tip from "The Fashionable Housewife", I found THESE:



Aren't they just the cutest shoes!! **gushing enthusiastically!!**

They are the ones Bristol Palin is wearing in the People Magazine photo.
I found them at both Zappos ($$$) and Online Shoes ($$). On sale now at Online Shoes.
Too bad they don't come in red.

Unfortunately a certain Farmer just bought both diesel fuel and gasoline for the farm tanks. Can you say "Ca-CHING!!"? No cute shoe buying in my immediately future, but I'll keep the link for later. Christmas is coming, right? Oh Honey.......

More photo experiments later. This morning, I was trying to emulate Pioneer Woman and her pre-dawn over the pond photos. Still learning aperture and shutter speed and all that technical photography stuff. I can say, I like using the manual settings better than just leaving it on auto. Somehow it feels more like I'm a part of the process. (duh!)
I picked up a book at the library yesterday on Digitial Photography. I'll have time while waiting in the elevator lines and for Farmer-dear to fill the trailer to read a little bit and I think little bits will be the way I'll need to go to understand it all.

Happy early Wednesday morning to everyone!
Hugs!
Kay~
––"It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark
so that all its shy presence may huant you and possess you
in a reverie of suspended thought." ~ James Douglas