day 285....365 project.

hydrangea...

they are lovely in the fall also.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 284...365 project.

the last leaves of the dogwood bush in my old gardens.

i was loving the red.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 250...365 project.

i was lost in the color of cattails a couple of days ago.

in beauty,

Pamela

picture fall.....day 8 and day 9.

day 8...

day 9...

day 241....365 project.

pumpkin patch time...

in beauty,

Pamela

picture fall...day 1.

day 1.

picture fall @ http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/

or

http://www.shuttersisters.com/

day 236...365 project.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 235....365 project.

carpet....

what the floor of a forest is covered with.

in beauty,

Pamela

old photos, playing...and a project.

i think i am working on a project.

i'm not quite sure yet what it is...but maybe...just maybe it might be a

bliss book.

for those of you who have been around for the past 3+ years...

you know me by my bliss e-mails.

you know...the ones i used to send out on a near daily basis with photos and words of inspiration.

the ones i stopped sending out because i wasn't FEELing it any more because of life circumstances.

i so did not want to send something out that i wasn't FEELing mySelf.

i made the decision it would have been

an untruth to send them.

so i stopped.

~*~

anyway....

in the past couple of days something VERY exciting happened.

i was contacted by a feng shui artist/decorator asking for some of my images she had seen and was interested in using.

so...i had to dig DEEP DEEP into my photo archieves to find them.

in the end...she was unable to use them for sizing reasons.

but...WHAT AN EXCELLENT LEARNING PROCESS it has been...and i am so grateful someone wished to use them....whether she could or couldn't...the EXPERIENCE was part of the journey.

~*~

but...wow!

i found some fabulous photos i wanted to share with YOU.

they have been patiently waiting to be seen.

and

i

started

playing with them.

~*~

this one i am going to send out as a postcard to a pen pal.

(more on that in another post)

kind of 1960's ish

~*~

and this one....

mmmmmmm....i love the tones.

~*~

and...

i don't know why i like this....

but

i

just

do.

as i am going thru the photos...i am thinking...i would like to have a small little book of them with words to look at.

something pretty to pick up and look thru

when i need to remember

beauty and the journey i am on.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 216....project 365.

at the base of devil's tower.

i was fond of the tree shadows, pinecones and needles.

in beauty,

Pamela

day 195...365 project.

tassels....

i love corn tassels. 

the little grains blowing in the wind...

singing

"look at me...look at me".

~*~

this is the original photo sooc (straight out of the camera)

the sun was setting...and oh! i do enjoy that magical time of day...

all things are alive dancing.

but

it wasn't what my mind's eye wanted to convey.

so i gave the photo a little boost.

i love the green leaves in this with the tassels and blue skies.

eye candy ~**~*~

~*~

and...i played with the corn some more....

i love the feel of this photo also.

it is a little subtler and soft....yet has depth and life.

~*~

but i have a fondess for the retro feel of this effect for my 365 project.

in beauty,

Pamela

10 days of summer...day 2.

day 2 assignment...show me your garden...

fluff...my garden.

this year my garden is nature true it's form...natural and free.

crosby farm park hopping.....

deep, deep, deep into the forest my friends rose (right), kathy (left) and i went....

on a nature walk and park hopping experience.

the forest is lush and dreamy and magical and i really just wanted to lay down in the middle of it and let mother earth hug my lovely~self.

but we kept walking ~~~~>

until we reached the river....the mississippi river to be exact.

my eye wandered ~~~>~>>~~>

i love the rocks pressed in the sand....

the mix of shapes, colors and sizes.

mmmm.....and the sand in itself is dreamy.

we stayed for 2 hours down by the river.

catching up with eachother

enjoying the warmth of the sun,

acknowleging

how grateful we each were

to be our true selves

no illusions...

and

laughing

and

just

being.

no worries..

no cares...

we just

were.

until we WERE

hungry

and had to go eat thai food ~*~*~~

in beauty,

Pamela

house~sitting continued........

i just returned from my 5 night 6 day house~sitting experience....
mmmmmm....it was so fascinating to watch life unfold from a different space....but i quickly realized it was from my "own" space....one separate from another's. 
i love my own space.

non~the~less...

my friend cathy has a quiet restful home.

and i was so fortunate to be able to be in it.

her decor would be similar to mine...

fairies....

and so many "things" from the natural world.

it was very easy to be in my "own" while

in her energy.

her bed....

divine and lush and welcoming.

i dreamed

fabulously.

note the statue in the window

a naked woman

i love naked women statues.

feminine

and i will leave it at that.

i spent most of my free time lounging with a book....serpent of light...on her balcony.

if not reading...i was admiring the scenery (see earlier post).

with pansy faces

smiling

at

me.

thank you cathy.

i really enjoyed

your

space

and the many

gifts it brought me.

in beauty,

Pamela

the essence of a pinecone ~*~

....and i sat in the curve of a pinecone's wing.

in beauty,

pamela

365 project ~*~Simple Pleasure

I love my peegee hydrangea this time of year....the petals are so delicate. In past years I would pick the individual flowers off the frond and dry them....for later use...to slip in letters to people or to lay out on my harvest table.

In Beauty,
Pamela