On the Road

Imagine my AMAZEMENT when I visited Silk Creek Portal and saw Gail's bike looking out at the ocean.

Oh, wait, you can't. The reason the picture made my jaw drop was because I JUST bought a bike like hers!!! But mine has a luggage rack and detachable baskets.

And no fenders. And knobby tires. And a widdle BELL.

Sharpened Watercolor Flowers 1053

I did this on Microsoft Photo Editor from a beautiful flower photo sent me today by Gail in California, without whom I am nothing...........


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a poster from Gail's World in California

tasty treat

a joint effort between BB and me. At Stone Quarry Art Park.

"Dune 740"

Gail Slaughter of California took the beautiful dune shot to the left and sent it to me, knowing full well, perhaps, that I would take that beauty and mess it up with my OWN version, seen below.




















How did I get so much sky?

Well, in Microsoft Photo Editor you can select a portion of a picture, copy just that section, and move it around. In this case I took a hunk of ground and all the sky I could, then copied that section lower down, repeat repeat repeat until I had pasted a whole lotta sky over the sand. (The "SMUDGE" tool works great for blending out lines and gaps and irregularities to make the effects look fairly seamless.)

"Dune 608"

Gail Slaughter produced the top photo....(California dune shot) and I fooled around with Microsoft Photo Editor to make the bottom one from it.............................MS

(Hint: select a section with sky above, ground below, then paste it lower down to mask the ground, repeat, repeat repeat until you have lotsa sky to play with, then use smudge function to blend images together relatively seamlessly........time involved: 10 minutes max!........MS)

more sculptures

Here are a couple kinetic sculptures, plus another shot of that awesome dragon.  LeafLady (Gail)

Sun and Shadows

I haven't heard from Michael in a while. I think he's on the road, and I hope he'll return to Everything in Particular when he arrives.

Life is a balance of sun and shadows, the yin and yang, the growth and decay.

I haven't got what it takes to fill in for Michael while he's gone, but I hope all of you are happy in your lives.

A true honor, from an honorable source

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Raven's Nest has awarded EinP this award, which Raven received herself and passed on to us. She mentions me by name in her posting, but the truth is, I just sweep the floors around here. The real reason EinP maintains its variety, humor, and heart is because people send me things and come here to comment and discuss them. Raven has been one of our most faithful friends, and we thank her deeply, but we also thank the long list of "People to See" in our left margin, any one of which can be said to be a friend in times of discouragement,

the time when you need friends the most.

Introducing a new character...

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Yeah, I'm a tough guy...on the outside. Gotta be, when yer a Net Detective. When da Blog Police can't solve it, it comes to me. I'm da gumshoe dat goes ta blogs where nobody goes, who does the dirty work what nobody wants ta do. You bloggers out dere know me. I don't mess 'round. When somebody steals yer stuff, I'm on the case. When somebody uses bad grammer, I come down hard. I don't take no guff.

I DO take cheezburgerz.

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"I'm Buddy Bloglist...Private Eye."

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Stay tuned for Buddy's new adventure, "Attack of the Blog Monster"... coming soon to Everything in Particular!