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Feb2

Photo Hunt-Narrow

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Here my boy Cosmo is making a narrow escape from under the narrow underneath of the sofa! This shot is over a year old and we haven’t seen him go under there lately (to lay near the heat duct and hide) as he may be too chunky now. There’s a heat duct that is more accessible in the remodeled kitchen and has a catnip mat in front of it. He’s not dumb!
A narrow escape
This photo is of the narrow canal in New Hope, PA was taken with *gasp* a film camera. I love this area and haven’t been up there for a couple of years. If you look closely, you can see ducks in the water. I noticed the date on the picture-my 40th birthday!

New Hope canal

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Jan12

Photo Hunt-Skinny

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Skinny? Gee, how many things fall into that category? Here, we aren’t skinny in body. I do have a snake photo somewhere (of the garden variety) but I thought this fit (again kudos to Longwood Gardens-I most thankfully renewed my yearly membership!):

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Longwood Gardens lamp post

It’s one of several very tall and skinny lamp posts that flank the sidewalks. I bet they are very old too.

Jan10

Mail art

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Mail Art
Here’s what I mailed off today. I loved that I got the New Lunar Year postage stamps to go with the theme. There’s nothing in the envelope, you just mail it because of what’s on the outside! My friend who organized this said we had to add a monkey to the envelope somewhere. Do you understand why I added ‘that silver item’ to the back of the envelope?

And here’s my $6 mother of pearl earrings and $3 rust colored top from the Kohl’s sale (the necklace is older and one of my favorites):
Top and earrings

And I have another paint program Adobe and was playing with that:

Pasteled!

Gee, my eyebrows look different in these! I will say they need a little trim.

Special effect

Dec29

Photo Hunt-Messy+ last week

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Don’t faint! It’s just a neglected corner near my computer desk. Not seen by many-please don’t chastise me. It holds some eBay stuff, used envelopes (I recycle), a drawing tablet for the computer (birthday gift from a month ago I have yet to try out), paper, etc. I hope to get to this soon-yeah right! It’s the hardest place to clean as someone is always parked at the computer right next to it!

~Update-I actually started to tidy this up! Yes!

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I am not proud of this
And last week’s topic was ‘light’ and here is my sorry attempt to take outdoor photos on the 27th at Longwood Gardens of multiple lights-only one tree of dozens!

Blurry and blue

Dec27

Awesome Longwood Gardens

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Boy oh boy was it crowded at Longwood Gardens today! We lasted almost 2 hours in the mob, but we mainly went to see the lights, the new children’s garden and the main Christmas display-which we did. My mom is out for a visit and joined us and both Sean and her tried out their new cameras. Here are a few of the 79 shots (wow, I know). I’ll do a slideshow probably tomorrow.

Mom and Sean in the new children’s garden:

Mom and Sean
Dianne outside children’s garden

Just me!
The Conservatory decorated for Christmas
Conservatory
A fountain in the children’s garden
Fountain
Sunshine stained glass window in children’s garden
Stained glass
Gorgeous tablescape with a wintery theme (for Zoey!)
Winter tablescape
Some of the magnificent lights outside
Lights outside

Dec15

Photo Hunt-Small

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I just bought this adorable teenie tiny gingerbread boy at World Market on Tuesday. I think he’s about 2″ tall if that.

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Very small ornament

Long shot of the little guy

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I got down to my mom’s on Friday after over 3 weeks of not seeing her. She cringed at my boo-boo, but was anxious for me to assemble her Christmas tree-the kind with a million branches where you have to match up the letters on the tree pole to the one on the branches. We ended up with two that had different letters then the spaces left, so we shuffled a few around and that worked. Mom bought amber lights with white cording-opps-but we worked them in the middle well and they look okay. She has this pretty angel with fiber optics and really long ribbons that hang nicely down the tree. I was accordion pleating them and I think it’s going to be a gorgeous tree. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her dishwasher, but she may have dislodged or kinked a hose while forcing the dishwasher door shut when the bracket on the top that holds it to the underside of the counter was bent funny. I hear water gurgling though.

We went out for Chinese and then went to a few stores. I got a few more things for the guys, almost finished! Then we went to Home Goods and I saw a ‘must have’ peacock ornament-silver with Swarovski crystals on it’s body and a real peacock feather! I also bought a carved cookie press decoration modeled on an old one of an angel with laurel around it.

Needless to say, I am exhausted! I just wanted to get my photos up to share and rest and maybe trim my front hedges in the afternoon before the snow hits.