Macro Monday..

I played in the pumpkin patch this week. All the delicious twisty vines and curlie cues..wonderful fun to snap. Actually it is an accidental pumpkin patch. We had tossed our store bought pumpkins into the compost pile last Fall and they popped up like crazy this Spring. They have kept on growing, much to our amazement and joy!! So here are a few shots of our volunteers.

Stranglehold...



Isn't he beautiful!!


A bitty baby pumpkin coming along.


Ok..I know... but it is really beautiful, this huge pumpkin flower!

Friday My Town Shoot out..Outside Food

This weeks challenge is from Girlchef in Indiana!! I will say..I liked this topic..we certainly have lots of outside foody spots to take pics of...unfortunately it didn't work out that way this week..it seems I jammed my big toe and..so walking was out. So..I had to get a bit creative and tootle through my pics from July and well.. mine are a bit well..you'll see....
This spot includes our favorite sandwich/pita shop and our favorite java stop. I do love how our town puts up flower baskets!!

The Bakery By the Lake..delicious!

Well..here is where I had to get creative...this lovely girl comes to our preschool about once every other week..we like her!! Not just for the pizza which is greeted with hoots and squeals but..she is just really sweet..isn't she lovely!!

This young lady, a family friend was across the street watering for a neighbor. She is polite and the oldest of seven..we like Chelsea too. I had to ask her twice to come join us for pizza on the grass - and root beer. Everyone was happy she did. Look at that amazing hair!!!

I know..sorry had to finish the post with my goofy family. Leave it to Hanna to offer us a delightful look at her food. She is gonna kill me....giggle!

I thought I would share a bit of tweaking with you. I loved this pic of Kate and Nonni..but I didn't get the exposure quite right (unlike the picture below), it needed to be cropped although I really love off center pics, and I wanted to play with it a bit. I love color and always hesitate to do a sepia or black and white edit to them...but this one I thought I would. I changed the black and white threshold and then added a bit of color back in. I did a bit of Ortonish to blurr the hard lines, added a drop frame and watermark and whaaa laaaa....


Post....sycronysity..I love it. Alicia's challenge this week is editing photos - whoo hoo I was a day ahead of her! I hope this counts!!

Macro Mondays...

I just kinda liked this one..somehow reminded me of being young..bluejeans and buttercups.
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This poor critter was taken from its home and brought to me with eager hands to snap a picture...it escaped and scuttled down between my deck slats. Even better!! Hope it found new home.

I love eye shots..

Here is one of the water droplet shots I have been working on this week.

Have a wonderful week all!! Namaste, Sarah