“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton Wishing all who celebrate a blessed Laetare Sunday!
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton Wishing all who celebrate a blessed Laetare Sunday!
Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadow. That’s what the sunflowers do. Helen Keller I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that trumpets life more than the sunflower. For me that’s because of the reason for its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows …
It’s cold. And changing my antidepressant from Cymbalta (which was helping my fibromyalgia but had quit helping my depression) to Fetzima (vice versa) isn’t helping my grumpy mood any. I have developed strange food cravings (carbs, sugar, and more carbs) and I am frighteningly grateful for cable TV and Law & Order reruns.
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground. Andrea Gibson
One fuschia plant, photographed and processed three ways:
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More fun freelensing with my Lensbaby Velvet56 lens and my coneflowers and a zinnia thrown in for good measure…
Freelensing with Coneflowers (my first attempts, so please be kind):
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