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Scavenger Hunt Sunday 15th May

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I am linking up with Scavenger Hunt Sunday again.

This weeks challenges:

Give Me Flowers
Visual Contrast
Friendship
Before and After
Dark

Give me flowers,
Just too many pictures to choose from, I’ll try this one.

Friendship

Before and after
In the better weather (like now) I try to get away with roasting a chicken or piece of lamb or whatever with new potatoes and some summer vegetables, but alas, my boy thinks it is not a roast without the roast potatoes!

Contrast
We went out for tea, yes of course it had to be a Somerset Cream Tea, and look what was wandering and calling around the garden. It is many years since I have seen a peacock, it made my day. I thought the contrast of the hard grey stone wall and the soft electric blue feathers in this picture (one of many!) would be just right for this part of the challenge.

Dark
Sweet Peas say summer to me, I like their delicate soft petals and colours and the way they grow entwined together, needing to be picked to encourage more to follow. When I saw these fabulous dark blackcurrant colours in my florist I just had to have them on my windowsill! Their perfume was every bit as wonderful to breathe as the flower was to look at.

Project 64

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Project 64 is looking for Tumbleweed this week.

I am not overly fond of horses, I am afraid of them if the truth be known! I used to be afraid of dogs but having lived with two of them I realise that they are just daft smelly things that need lots of love. I wonder if it’s the same with a horse? Anyway I got a chance to touch a few horse creatures at the farm we visited recently and I really enjoyed looking at them. So there are two horses and one dog included in the search for Tumbleweed this week.

I loved the weeds tumbling all over this old door.

This was the first thing I saw when I saw this weeks colour reveal.

And this was the second! Not terribly exciting but they are ‘in’

I almost missed this wonderful project this week. I had taken and collected together all the pictures early and then promptly forgot to post!

There are fabulous interpretations of Tumbleweed over here.

Texture Tuesday

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I am linking to Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday again this week. This time we can link our favourite pictures with one of Kim’s textures on. I just love playing with photoshop and textures, did I mention that before?

Henry Bamford Farm Machinery with Kim's Golden texture

Devon Red calf with Kim's Branded texture

Beautiful cockerel with Kim's Apple Butter texture

The Hen house with Kim's Sweat Treat textue

Fowey town path with Kim's Grey Day texture

Water wheel at Polperro

I wanted to try something other than flowers this week. I absolutely love flowers and they are the perfect subject for adding texture but I wanted to see what else I could do.
I really love The Red Devon and the Cockerel. I think you get a sense of the rich colour and farmyard fragrance (!) from the darker textures.
The Hen house picture was so cluttered but I really wanted to do something with it. I loved the apple tree in the sitting room, it was so unusual, I wanted to share it. Sweet Treat not to heavily brushed was the answer.

The Photo of Fowey was so dark to start with. The good one had some people in but they weren’t adding anything to the shot so I returned to the dark one, set the blending mode to screen, added a couple of layers of the Grey Day texture and only brushed the house doors, the road and the textured wall and only on one layer.

The waterwheel looks so lovely with the heavy Ben’s collection 6 texture, it has really come alive and is just right for me now.

I loved the challenge that I gave myself, I Hope you like them too. I have set aside some more non flower pictures to play with!
I really love to know what textures have been used on a picture and the different blending modes that you use so, I have all the recipes written down for mine , if you want them, just e-mail me.

Have a look over here to see some really fabulous work with textures.

Friendship

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Thank you to my lovely friend Marcella, she arranged for us to meet at The Town Quarry today.
“Sounds boring, what do you want to meet her there for?” said family in unison.
“Because our town quarry is a lovely place! it has the most beautiful and photogenic rock faces, it has a blacksmith forge, it has a tea room, it has things for sale, crafty things! and today is the last day of the North Somerset Arts fortnight, there will be lovely things to look at (but not photograph) and I haven’t been able to get to any exhibits this time!”
Much more than this though is that I haven’t seen Marcella for a long time, but she is so beautiful that it didn’t matter. We walked into each others company as though it had been just a few days.
We laughed, we swapped stories, tales of children and husbands, recipes and craft stuff! we had tea and sat in the sun, we walked around to take some pictures and we looked at the exhibits and talked to some of the artists. Oh! it was so inspiring and made me want to craft again with paper and glue and even try some paint!

Marcella saw this

I saw this

This is for you Marcella

Did I write your name enough times?

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don’t need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
Do you have a favourite friendship quote you could share?

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

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I am linking up with Scavenger Hunt Sunday again.

This weeks challenge:
• SOOC (straight out of the camera)
• Sprouting
• Isn’t it Ironic?
• Lazy
• Smells like Spring

These large purple alliums remind me of my mother. Years ago they were the stars of The Chelsea Flower Show. Mum thought that they were so beautiful they could never be grown in an ordinary garden!


Speciality Tulips. I found this part of the challenge really difficult this week. I almost posted an empty space until this popped into my mind this morning.


I thought the little crocus was never going to show, but with so much sun through the glass this week up she popped in time for SHS!

I had taken this shot early last week ready for sprouting, as I like it so much I have posted it as well.


This is from my library. As soon as I saw the challenge it popped into my mind. I had this picture as my screen saver for a long time. I still love it so here it is, lazy ole frog.

The viburnum brings the first perfume to my garden. When I catch her scent on the evening air I always think “Spring is here at last”

Have a look over here for wonderful interpretations of this weeks Scavenger Hunt Sunday.