Misplaced thoughts about age.

As I enjoy a much needed quick trip to the beach in S.C. to visit my In-Laws. I am sitting on the balcony watching a young family walk along the sand. The small little girl is picking up shells and playing in the sand. The Mom is taking photos of her, capturing this childish play. They begin to walk again and I see an older gentleman, stooped and walking with a cane. He moves slowly along the beach. As their paths cross it makes me see how precious life is.

Each stage holds it's treasure.

When we are young it seems to hold newness,adventure and wonder. At life's end if we are lucky and observant, it will also hold newness, adventure and wonder.

At first I felt sorry for the older man, his halting steps and slow movement. Then I realized that maybe I am judging wrongly.

I began to see how wonderful it was that he was able to take a walk on the beach. His slow walk helped him have time to observe and wonder at what he was seeing. For him, this was his adventure on this beautiful morning.

I need to take note of this and remember not to always be in a hurry.

Walk slow and really see what is all about me with, anticipation of wonder and adventure!

Paying it forward...Last Days of Summer Giveaway!

As we finish this Labor Day weekend I want to have a giveaway!

Autumn Antics http://autumnsantics.blogspot.com just had an amazing giveaway that started with Bone Head Studio's. http://boneheadstudio.blogspot.com/ But it has a catch. Those entering to win the prizes must agree to create 5 of their own pieces of art to offer in a giveaway. I have created these cute little cards called Bitty Sentiments. Leave a comment and I will have a drawing on Tuesday morning. I worked on the sets today and here are some of the images from the themes I used. Enjoy the Last Images of Summer and good luck.

The Cards I Made for you today!

These are some of my photographs I got the little images from Enjoy!







Happy Labor Day!

End of Summer

Sunrise on the beach
As this "Last Weekend of Summer" begins I wanted to share some parting images of summer with you.

I started this blog entry early this afternoon as I sat bored stiff in our frame shop waiting for someone to come in. I was motivated and ready with what I was going to post. But then someone did come in. My wonderful husband came in after that and wanted to talk.

Imagine that!

So, 3 hours had passed and then it was time for our little town's 1st Friday evening festivities to start. I needed to check on my new vendors and do a once around to see how everything was going and then eat. By the time I got back to the shop I had a headache. My wonderful husband was still in the mood to talk, so after a bit I told him I was going to give the chair massage lady some business. After 10 minutes with her, I went to the shoe store and had a FREE 20 min. reflexology session! I was feeling much better and the evening was over so I knew I would be able to go home and finish my blog!

NOT!!!

A few minor things had to be taken care of first .
Finally off to my bedroom, soft music, relax, breath, open laptop, log in, start to type and....
My kitty who has been home alone all day wants me to pet him. I can not type and pet a cat at the same time!
Am I ever going to get this blog entry done????? Breathe

As this last "Weekend of Summer" begins I wanted to share some parting images of summer with you. I know we will have several more warm weeks and beautiful summer days left but soon the colors will begin to change and the temperatures will get cooler and that excitement of Fall will fill us and beachy photos won't be as fun to look at so I will share some with you through out the weekend so you can revisit the long days of Summer one last time before the Fall season is upon us! I won't necessarily have much to say, just pretty images for you to enjoy! If you do enjoy them please leave me a note so I will know someone is enjoying my photography. Thanks and have a great holiday weekend!

Playing with photo editing

I have been very busy the last few weeks and finding time to give you something you might remotely want to read about has been difficult. I decided to share a couple images I have from the beach. I love taking photographs but with digital I love turning them into art! Using Photoshop or other photo editing programs really lets your inner artist come to life. With the 2 images here you can see the different feel you can give an image with different effects.

Surfer Dude

Passages

The problem is deciding which effect you like the best! I will share more beach images in the next few days before summer is over. Hope they inspire you to take a deep breath and relax a bit!