Friday Shoot out-theme- What looks like a face

Well it looks life a face.......

......a worm

....a duckling trying to stay warm

.......a rabbit

.......a oppossum

....motor mouth

....a frog?

.....a duckbill platypus?

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Share the JOY Thursday

I prefer some seasons more than others but find

JOY in all of them.

Winter Cardinals go about their daily activities, mostly eating, just outside our kitchen window.

Cardinals and all the birds

Bring us much JOY as we start each day watching them praise the maker with their beauty.

 

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Wordless Wednesday

75 years of a Great Life -Thank you Lord

 

Today I am celebrating my 75th birthday anniversary.
Since my family had a birthday party for me two weeks ago I am partying with Kathe and her party friends cause I like her party.
Hope you don't think I am too selfish.
 

I keep thinking about my mother and all my family that have passed away.

I am grateful for the faith, traditions and values modeled by them.

Grateful for my wonderful family and friends and the opportunities I have had to become a woman I am proud of.

Thank you dear God for a life worth living.

Thank you all of my cyberspace friends.

What a wonderful way to spend your golden years, meeting new folks from all over the world.

I will be at my computer as long as I am able to get here.

 

  

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Mosaic Monday. Button Floozie swap

The Button Floozies just finished a Christmas Ornament Button Swap.

Here are the ornaments I got from my partners

Lynn

Marilyn 

Sandy

Robin

 

 

These are the ones I sent to them.

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Happy Birthday dear son

Sepia Saturday-Creepy tintype

Sepia Saturday

Old photographs are wonderful aren't they? I know I am preaching to the converted, but isn't it wonderful how an old photograph can send you on a journey : a fascinating journey of discovery. Take our archive image this week which comes from the Samuel Bell Maxey Collection at the Texas State Archives and is available via the wonderful Flickr Commons service. The only information provided is that it is a photograph of  Lala Williams and Elgie Crook, but with just a few Google clicks you can discover that ...... Well, I don't want to spoil the journey for you, so go and click your own Google and take your own journey of discovery.
Alan Burnett

Found this tintype on Flickr Photo Stream belonging to
A Mr. Biggs who collects vintage photos.
He stated
"This is a tintype found at a flea-market. Caption reads 
Tissy and Mary White (Twins) "
 

This is a creepy looking photo, maybe because it is so dark.

As you know folks are able to comment on Flickr Photo streams and several folks mentioned that this reminded them of Arbus.
I knew nothing about Arbus

Well that lead me on another research.

Diane Arbus ( /diːˈæn ˈɑrbəs/; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers) or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal.".^[2] Diane believed that a camera could be “a little bit cold, a little bit harsh” but its scrutiny revealed the truth; the difference between what people wanted others to see and what they really did see – the flaws.^[3] A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid . . . that she would be known simply as 'the photographer of freaks'"; however, that phrase has been used repeatedly to describe her.^[4][5][6][7]
In 1972, a year after she committed suicide, Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale.^[8] Millions of people viewed traveling exhibitions of her work in 1972–1979.^[9][10] Between 2003 and 2006, Arbus and her work were the subjects of another major traveling exhibition, Diane Arbus Revelations.^[11] In 2006, the motion picture Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus, presented a fictional version of her life story.^[12]


An Arbus Photo

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FSO- Free Time- Free nowdays to work or play.

Friday Shoot out
theme
At rest, at play and in between

Retired here

Getting a painting just right can be hard work.

But, with a bunch of silly friends, loads of fun.

This is a game for fun but seems more like work to these old joints.

Nothing says fun like a mother/daughter week-end getaway.

Fun when done but work getting it all together.LOL

Fuzzy eyesight makes fun sometimes hard work.

A new project I cannot talk about since it is for Christmas but I love to sew.
Don't want any deadlines though just wanna do it on my time.

Oh Oh, fun got the better of me.
I said I would never play
Angry Birds.

Fun with the grands is Always just plain fun what is hard is seeing his body all black and blue from,
Playing?

JUst in case you thought I never do any work.

Hostess at Nazareth Campus Visitor's Center
1 to 4 on Friday.

Now this is what I do in my spare time.
My hands are never still.
I can wander off into never-never land just stitching away and have no idea of what time it is.

  




Some of you know I took a care-giving job but it was so much fun it caused my BP to go up too high so my doctor said no, just stay home and stay calm and don't have TOO much fun.

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