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IPhriday Photo Challenge: Plum Ready

My Plumming Plum

Painted in Waterlogue

Weather Wednesday; I have a Plum tree in my front yard and it is beginning to leaf, Plum. So I got out there and took a photo with my IPhone! I love Spring, but the weather outlook, here in the south, goes from the 50’s (Winter) to the high 70’s (Spring) overnight. There is not a gradual warming up. So, I am now Plum ready for the high 90’s (Summer) which will start at the end of the month, right after Easter, or sooner! I added a photo edited in the Waterlogue App on my IPhone for use as a Spring note card! Better get the photo since my tree thinks it is still Spring!

PS Thursday Weather Update: Today it was in the 80’s!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays! It is great fun getting outside to see what is going on, even if you’re burning up on March 11th! But, I’m not complaining, I’m just HOT!

IPhriday Photo Challenge: Painted Benches

Painted Benches

Painted in Waterlogue

Painted in Brushstroke

There used to be several painted benches around the two block Main Street of my town. Now since I have been getting out and exploring for the IPhriday Photo Challenge I see the painted benches are being replaced with wrought-iron benches with dedication markers. I went looking for the “LOVE” bench for a Valentine Post only to see it had been replaced. I got as far as Ben & Jerry’s before I saw the last two remaining painted benches hugging the exterior of the ice cream shop. It was as if they were saying,”no, don’t take us too!” So I thought I’d better get a quick photo snap before they are gone! The Good Ol Days are quickly being gobbled up!

As usual I painted my photo in the Waterlogue App and in Brushstroke, since they are my favorite IPhone Photo Apps! I’ll use the Waterlogue design photo for my notecard!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays! It has been a lot of fun!

IPhriday Photo Challenge: My Pastel Neighborhood

Living in a Pastel World

Painted in Brushstroke App, Photo #1

Painted in Brushstroke App, Photo #2

Painted in Brushstroke App, Photo #3

I live in a pastel neighborhood. All the cottages are painted like Easter Eggs, except for two colors, which are allowed. Yes, we have to get permission to change our cottage colors! Anyway, the exception to the pastels are Navy Blue and Periwinkle, a lightish purple color.

I love using some of the IPhone Apps to change the way my pictures look. I use some of my photos to make greeting or note cards. This photo, taken in January, turned out especially well for the look I wanted for my notecards. There are oodles of design choices to pick from in the Brushstroke App! I use AVERY products, which offers a bazoodle load of designs and sizes, including posters, business cards and any type of notecard! Follow the easy instructions and feed the card stock of choice into the printer and Whalla, a notecard, postcard, whatever card you want! You can use their graphics and add text or download your own pictures from your files, adding text or not. Then fold, write and mail! Done!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays! It has been a lot of fun!

IPhriday Photo Challenge: IPhlop Art

Artwork???????

Painted in Waterlogue App

Painted in Brushstroke, Illustration Setting

I hate this!!! It is a piece of “artwork” that sits in the front of our small town post office. To me this is what gives “ART” a bad name. To most people observing it, it looks like junk taken from a junk yard and welded together. It was given to our fine village as a gift. Hmmmm…….. beware of free gifts I say. Of course we had to build a base for it to sit on and have a big ceremony to acknowledge such a fine gift. Spare me. Well I guess the good thing is we didn’t have to worry about it being an eyesore when it finally rusted, because it came to us rust and all. There is a program on Acorn TV (a channel of British TV which I love to watch) that is called “How To Read a Painting.” Maybe there will be something on there about “How to Like a Piece of Rusted Junk”! Stay tuned!

I have shown the photo painted in the Watercolor App and the Brushstroke App too. I Loved the sky and tree branches in the Waterlogue App! But, Waterlogue couldn’t help this ugly art in the garden either! Blob that it is! Brushstroke tried to make the most of it! As we all shall have to!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Copper

My Turtle

This turtle hung out in my garden most of last summer. It was the first I had seen him. I thought his coloring was very nice, as his body was Copper colored, as well as the markings on his shell.

Copper was in the Crayola Collection in 1903, so it was one of the first colors, and then in 1915 it was discontinued. It was brought back into the collection in 1958.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge! Enjoy!

IPhriday Photo Challenge: Garden Chairs

Garden Chairs

Painted in Waterlogue

Painted in Brushstroke

I am ready for Spring! Here the IPhotos are painted in the Apps; Waterlogue and Brushstroke! They are IPhone Apps! I print them into notecards! More notecards for me!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays!

I Phriday Photo Challenge; The Scaly Bark Birch Tree

Scaly Bark Birch Tree

Painted in Waterlogue

Painted in Brushstroke

Out and about this week I took a photo of the Scaly Bark Birch Tree or the Betula Nigra River Birch. It is my favorite tree! It’s not too scaly in winter, but I will update it as the weather warms up! It peels like paper and looks so cool! Look HERE to see other trees that have lovely bark to enhance your garden! I used the IPhone Apps, Waterlogue and Brushstroke, to add the other two images! They would make lovely notecards, don’t you think? Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Asparagus

My Vegetable Garden

Fruits of My Labor

Asparagus is a tone of green that is named after the vegetable. Crayola created this color in 1993 as one of the 16 to be named in the Name the Color Contest.

Another name for this color is asparagus green. The first recorded use of “asparagus green” as a color name in English was in 1805.

It is also the color of a wild asparagus plant blowing in the wind of the 1949 classic film Sands of Iwo Jima.

My “Woodland Garden” is a postage-stamp sized back yard, that is fenced off from a forest of trees. My “Cottage Garden” is a strip of ground resembling the seal of an envelope. Long and very narrow. So my “garden” is a postage stamp and envelope!

One year, I decided to broaden my horizons and invest in an allotment that our neighborhood church provided. I rented my spot and set off. Mind you I didn’t know a thing about growing vegetables. I planted a lot of lettuce. Many varieties of lettuce, all planted at the same time. They came up very nicely. So did the onions, peppers, and herbs. The plants looked so beautiful, and every day I would hike up the hill to the church and cut my lettuce. And cut lettuce. And cut lettuce. The pictures represent the fruit of my labor.

I did not grow asparagus, but surely one of these nice greens should be the color of asparagus?

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge! Enjoy!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Antique Brass

Jane Cowl Dahlia Sep 2009

My Martha Stewart Dahlia, 2009

The most stunning flower EVER in my garden was the “Jane Cowl” dahlia! I bought the tuber for this flower in 2009, not knowing much about it, except that it was Martha Stewart’s favorite flower! I didn’t realize at the time how hard they were to come by! If it was good enough for Martha it was good enough for me! The Antique Brass color is on the tips of the second row of the middle petals!

This is a stunning informal, decorative, heirloom dahlia originally introduced in 1928, with luscious blooms held perfectly erect on sturdy stems. Deep peach centers open up to glowing bronze dusted with gold. It grows to more than six feet tall and the flowers reach 10 inches wide. I dug them up and gave them away when I thought they were too tall for my garden! What was I thinking? Now I miss them and can hardly find them!

More people ask to find “Jane Cowl” than any other lost dahlia! The beautiful petals look like the tresses of a goddess – or actress Jane Cowl (1883-1950), who was once “the most beautiful woman on the American stage,” who it was named after.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge! Enjoy!

Jane Cowl

I Phriday Christmas Post: The Ugly Christmas Sweater

For the I Phone IPhriday post I took this snap in our grocery store after I asked the gentleman for his picture! He was on his lunch hour and it was Ugly Christmas Sweater Day at his place of employment, he said. I didn’t think the sweater was all that ugly to tell the truth. I must be getting old! Anyway I was fascinated by his beard!!!!!! Gold tinsel!!!

Painted in Waterlogue

The Really GREAT Beard!

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