words of advice from Walt

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” 

― Walt Whitman
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/service

How to be alone

Love this little video. It is perfectly o.k. to be with yourself and be comfortable being with yourself.

picnik in february

So, I recently found out my favorite photo editing site will be closing in April. I have not had much time to play with it lately & should probably get busy.

It's a really cool site for an extreme amateur photographer who knows absolutely nothing about developing and editing. Basically, I just kind of press buttons until something I like pops up.

The cool thing is that Picnik is offering its premium membership for free up until April. So, if you like to take pictures and have time on your hands to play creatively, check it out. www.picnik.com

Here are some of my picniked photos:

Taking a picture of Bella & I is hard to do by myself. But editing and adding silly designs makes me feel better about it. :)

Picnik's frosty frame helps a mediocre pic look ...... well the frame is nice

Me as a tree goddess lol

was pretty happy with this picture before. Just used the vibrance feature to bring out the color and burned (or dodged?) some snowy spots away

space angel dog

used the vibrance, circle splash and grain effect

My husband took this great shot. I just framed it & played with the colors.

Played with the colors and added graphics. meh.

This one I love! Dodged and burned and used different filter thingies to get this cool woodland pic.