Photos of the Week - Week 23
Critique Group Challenge: Week 23, On the Fence Photo by Julie Titus Click to view a larger image Julie says: Downpour of raindrops splashes off the fence and makes fireworks. |
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Photos of the Week - Week 22
Critique Group Challenge: Week 22, Abandoned Photo by Dennis Crawford Click to view a larger image Dennis says: Our beautiful, Nationally protected, Audobon bird sanctuary is a lovely place for a quiet walk, and bird watching. However not everyone sees it that way. There's no explanation for people who decide it's there for their personal trash dump. Nothing like an abandoned water bottle to beautify the place. Construction workers? Visiting grandkids? Who knows? What a pity |
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Smart Phone Challenge: Week 22, Lone Tree Photo by Ricky Tims Click to view a larger image. Ricky says: This is the a bonsai fig tree currently living in my kitchen window. Shot in portrait mode. High key version and then edited in Prisma to add a bit of color.
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Critique Group Challenge: Week 22, Abandoned Photo by Ricky Tims Click to view a larger image. Ricky says: Indeed we had a pair of bluebirds working so hard to build a home in the western village barber shop birdhouse The late unusual winter storm brought extreme low temps and it seems that was the end of their house making. The nest is visible, but not the birds
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 It Will Be Green Again
by Daphne Greig and friends
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Most you you will know that in July of 2018, a devastating and very large wildfire ravaged south central Colorado. The spring fire grew to 109,000 acres and on July 2, blazed through my little 40 acres of paradise, located in a high elevation fir forest. The fire literally came within feet of the house which was miraculously spared. The experience was life changing.
A few months after the wildfire a parcel arrived. Inside was this quilt. It was a labor of love created by members of a quilt guild in Victoria, British Columbia. Quilter, designer, and teacher, Daphne Greig, organized the effort. It was an amazing and humbling experience to receive such a gift. I had never been on the receiving end of such an outpouring of love.
The quilt is titled It Will Be Green. And, indeed the mountain is starting to come back. The oaks and undergrowth have skyrocketed. Previously I only had six or seven mature aspen trees. Those burned, but they produced thousands of offspring and the new aspen forest will be a joy to behold each Autumn. The fir forest doesn’t recover without help. To date over 2000 fir, pine, and spruce saplings have been planted. While many don’t survive, I feel there is a good survival rate and some of those planted in 2019 are now almost knee high!
This week, the first week of June, in 2019 was when volunteers arrived from all over to help put those baby trees in the ground. The outpouring of love is exemplified in this beautiful quilt and I treasure the friendships and love that continue to flow my way from my extended creative family.
 click on quilt for full size view TRY THE JIGSAW PUZZLE Choose your own difficulty. Click the 9-patch grid to change number of pieces. Click the circle arrow to make the puzzle pieces rotating instead of stable orientation. Also, there are tips under the "?" on the upper right of the puzzle. If you'd like a full screen version, click the button below. Have fun!
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Photos of the Week - Week 21
Critique Group Challenge: Week 21, Silhouettes Photo by Chris McCarthy Click to view a larger image Chris says: Silhouettes on the Shade. This is Kerry and PJ, with mommy getting a kiss. PJ, my daughter, is due in two weeks. And I could not pass up the opportunity to take a shot of her very pregnant shape. This started out as a solo shot of PJ. But Kerry wanted to get into the act. We took a number of pictures with various poses but this was my favorite.
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