I’m going to look up for some blogging inspiration today. Came across this cool site from NASA that posts an Astronomy related photo every day. Some are simple, like today’s photo above, while others like the one below are interactive or videos. Neat stuff, click on either pic and take a trip into outer space!
Snapped this picture of a great painting at my local art museum yesterday, isn’t it lovely? Okay, maybe I made the photo on a fun site called dumpr, still, that painting could be in a museum don’t you think? Go make your own masterpiece at www.dumpr.net/museumr.ph!
I’d like to say that I took this cool photo of a wall of graffiti, but my protégé, Mr. bookbabie, actually snapped this one. We spent the afternoon on Sunday in downtown Detroit capturing some urban scenes and I think this is my favorite of the bunch. We had a great time, wandering around taking pics and talking to people. It’s funny, when you’re draped with camera equipment people are so friendly and much more willing to stop and chat with a total stranger. We ate lunch in Greektown sitting at a bar in front of several flat screen TV’s and watched the British Open and the baseball game that was going on a few blocks from us. The Tigers lost, Harrington won, and all the while I tried not to think about my mom’s continuing serious health problems. I failed of course, but I am learning that all you can do sometimes is put one foot in front of the other and keep moving. There’s a line from a poem by Emily Dickinson that I love, “Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” Isn’t that just what hope feels like? Like a pair of tiny white angel wings wrapped around your breaking heart, holding it together.
This was the Saturday afternoon that Mr. bookbabie somehow accidentally (on purpose) misplaced his Honey-Do list. He said the dog ate it but I found it floating in the pool the next morning. You really can’t blame the guy though, can you?
Everytime I think I’ve seen all the cool on-line generators, I come across another one. Kelly on My Utopia blogged this fun word generator last week. All you do is type in a word and it mines photos from flickr and spells it out (kinda like my other favorite, the Mosaic Generator). Click on my custom “bookbabie” above and go try it out for yourself!
I wandered into the garden today and took some photographs of my flowers. This is Monsieur Clematis Henryi, isn’t he a handsome fellow?
Do you have a photograph or painting that you love? If you’d like to copy the color palette so that you can 1) paint your living room to match 2) create a digital drawing or 3) design a web page color scheme around it, then the Color Palette Generator is the tool for you. You upload a photo and get a simple break down of the color palette, complete with HTML color codes. It’s easy breezy to use and fun, even if you have no plans to bust out a paint brush in the near future!
This is a photo of my daughter Lizzi and my father-in-law, Hank. I took out the background and color in Photoshop and I used the oily blender in Corel Painter to give it a brush stroked effect. Lizzi is twenty-four now and Hank passed away seven years ago. I still think of him often, and I will miss him and remember him fondly today. Happy Father’s Day all.
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