Center of the universe through a flower...An extreme close-up of a little flower growing out on the back deck. I'm not even sure what kind it is but it comes up every year in the same clay pot from some seeds I threw in there about 5 years ago. I can see the little colorful blooms from my kitchen window and I've gotten really attached to that little plant that comes up every year.

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Just for fun: I found a website where there are lots of fun free (? about 10 popup ads?)things to put in your blog. The glitter stars are sparkly and fun. I copied the code to see if it would post in here without being in a template. I found this in www.bigoo.com.

Itty bitty tree... This is a tiny painting I did in acrylics on 140 lb. watercolor paper and it's only 3 x 3 1/2 inches. I accidentally cut the bottom off of this or it would have been a little big bigger by 1/4 inch. I had fun doing this one because I love painting trees!

Arrrgh my blog is playing tricks on me tonight. I made a new post with my weird striped clouds photos and it doesn't show up when I go in my blog so I deleted the whole post and redid it. W. J. I just saw in my E-mail that you made a comment in that post so it must have been showing up when you went in there. Thanks for the nice comment, yep that would make a cool background! Hmm anyways I made a new post of the whole thing but I still can't see it when I go in my blog??? Hmmm must be blog gremlins or either my settings messed up again! :(

What the heck!?...Yellow striped clouds?? Yesterday evening my husband was sitting out on the back deck right before sunset and I walked out there to see what he was doing. I looked up (of course) and to my amazement the clouds had these strange stripes in them! Of course he didn't even notice as I ran back inside for my trusty little digi camera. I set the thing on 'sunset' mode since it's supposed to bring out the warm colors of sunsets better. Little did I know it was going to turn the clouds into strange looking striped sulfer yellow looking things up there till after I opened it in photoshop and did 'auto levels'. Here's the normal pic of the clouds and the yellow school bus clouds version. :P

"MOUNTAIN MEMORIES" I've been really missing my Mom and it's been a year since I've seen her. She has been living in western Kentucky where my Dad's people are from for many, many years. She grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee and we travel through there at least once a year it sure doesn't seem often enough. She is going to be 80 years old this coming September and she is still doing pretty darn good to be that age. She still has her own little house and her small dog Bebe for company and my sister and niece live really close to her. We lost my Dad back in '99 but he was 78 and had a good long life full of love with my Mom. Anyways we drive through the Mountains to visit her every year and I made a digital painting to remember a beautiful scene we saw last year when we drove out there. There was layer upon layer of gorgeous mountains that seemed to go into infinity.

SUNRAYS...
W.J. here's the photo of the sunrays I was talking about and 2 manips I did from this photo below. Just wish the road and driveways hadn't been in the viewfinder but still like the orange sunbeams. This was after the storm ended and the sun setting.

"There's a sky in the hole" Taken on the day of the storm. Wow storms are scary but so exciting for taking pictures with my digi camera. The sky turns into an endless canvas with abstract art being painted in a huge WIP which is everchanging.

eek I was tagged by my very talented and artistically creative friend Asil the other day. I didn't know what it meant at first. I thought it had something to do with links in blogs LOL! :) I hope I'm doing this right, OK here goes:

5 Items

5 items in my fridge:

1- coffee..to keep it fresh (can't live without my coffee!)
2- Miracle whip to make those sandwiches taste yummy.
3- a honey ham which I haven't baked yet.
4- Milk (gotta have my calcium)
5- potatoes down in the crisper. My hubby's favorite vegetable.

5 Items in my closet

1- A HUGE supersize Mother's Day card my daughter got me several years ago.
2- Umbrella which I hardly ever use.
3- An old rolled up ink drawing I did from my college days.
4- Assorted homemade kittys in a basket my sister made years ago.
5- A small expensive bottle of perfume someone bought me years ago which I never used.

5 Items in my Purse

1- My cell phone which I usually only use only in case my car breaks down.
2- Assorted coins rattling in the bottom as always.
3- Address book which I usually only use when I'm doing Christmas cards. :)
4- Coupons for cigarettes. Hey you need them as expensive as cigs are now.
5- My other glasses in case something happens to the ones I'm wearing.

5 Items in My Car

1- Ice scraper, yea I won't need that till next winter!
2- bunch of boxes I got from work for hopefully shipping paintings someday.
3- tire cleaner (if I ever get around to cleaning them. :)
4- drink holder.
5- Inkpen (well I couldn't think of anything else interesting and it's dark outside so I'm too chicken to go look, LOL!)

5 People I tag

1- Alfreda
2- Florence
3- Cheri
4- Cathy
5- W.J.

One of the photos of the sky I got from the storm. I'm not sure what the line is in here but it was the edge of a huge cloud.

SILVER RAIN Oh I got some of the wildest sky photos this evening thanks to the crazy storms we had most of the day. Not long after I took these photos I heard there was a tornado sighted 7 miles east of here. This is one I took out my front door as the rain was pouring over the stopped up gutter on the front of the house. I manipped it a little in photoshop to make the rain look glowy.

Sometimes when I get out my vacuum cleaner (which isn't often enough as you can see by the cobwebs on the ceiling) my cat hops up on the wood stove in the living room, then jumps up on top of the bookcase which is right behind my favorite chair. Craning my neck up I decided to get out my digi camera and get a picture of her today because she looked so funny up there. :)

Here's a manip of the same photo:

Who's that over my head?~ Sometimes when I get out my vacuum cleaner (which isn't often enough as you can see by the cobwebs on the ceiling) my cat hops up on the wood stove in the living room, then jumps up on top of the bookcase which is right behind my favorite chair. Craning my neck up I decided to get out my digi camera and get a picture of her today because she looked so funny up there. :)

"The Red Pirate" This is a digital painting "HoHoHo and a bottle of rum" aaaaar matey :)