My back yard.

A little something different for today.  This is a view of my back yard during a sunset.  A layer of Kim's kk_cherish was used with the blend mode of difference and an oilpaint filter.

Sharing with Texture Tuesday

I don't really know where to begin this post.  I took a look back and I made four posts this year, not very consistant.  I must admit, I have had a couple of rough years with the appearance of Alzheimer's in both of my parents, their move to a nursing home and ultimately both of their deaths in the past year.

This year I also lost my job, a job I thought I would be at until retirement, but that's another story for another time.  So many changes in two years, sometimes it's been a little hard to wrap my head around it all.

Good things have also come out of the past two years.  I now have three little grandson's, one four year old and two one year old's.  I am also employed part time, so I'm not sure if I'm semi-retired or semi-employed.

Time has started to heal and it's time to move forward.  I couldn't think of a better place to come back to, but with Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday.  She has been such an inspiration in my photography life.

Here's what I came up with for this week's Texture Tuesday.

I have a vase with bamboo sitting on the table and the sun was streaming through.  The first thing I thought of was using the lens baby with a star filter.  Not being close enough, I added a 4x macro filter.  The photo came out as I wanted with the unfocused light appearing as stars, but the backgound was a little boring, so I added a layer of Kim's autumnburst.  All was going well, but a little blank spot was calling out for an aligator from our trip to Louisanna.

If you've made it this far in the post, thank you for visiting me today.

A very good week

It has been a very good week.  Work has gone well, I'm finished year end accounting, month end reports and all accounts have been analyized, ready for the audit.  Seven working days to complete it all, not bad at all. The healthy eating has been going well, drinking lots of water and on Friday I got back on the scale and lost a whole pound.  Whoo hoo, but at least I didn't gain a pound.  I'll continue on and I'm sure some day I'm sure I see positive results.

Last week did bring some good news.  I joined a group on Flickr, 52 in 2014 where each week has a theme and voting for your favorites  Week one's theme was Abstract and my Bubbles placed in the #3 spot.

Week # 2 ending, today, here's my entry for Bokeh.  This was taken with a lens baby composer and 4x macro filter.  The shaped bokeh is done with the lensbaby bokeh kit and a tin foil background.

It's been nice getting back into photography.  The past few years I've done a 365 with it slipping during the past year.  With family, work and life getting in the way I hoping this 52 group will get me shooting again. I hope you all had a good week and next week is even better.  Thanks for stopping in.