ahhhhhhhh.....my little chickadee!

i LOVE these smoke detectors by louise van der veld......

want! want! want!

unexpected gifts.......

unexpected gifts.....

i got this one while walking thru the parking lot to my car.

i never could figure out what was causing this reflection....

just the universe showing some love!

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this is another piece in my "inmate series"

i decided to title each piece with an inmate number.

i think these images are fabulous and can't thank

mr. jackson enough for allowing me to have creative

license with them.

(textures by shadowhouse creations, brushes by inobscuro, image courtesy of b. jackson, my ephemera)

unsaid.....

"there's a difference between unspoken and unsaid...."

WOW.....

i picked this book up from the library last thursday...

without reading the summary....just looked like something i'd like...

and read it yesterday. it's about the power of human

and animal relationships. as is frequently the case with

me....it appears i was guided in this choice.

i lost my animal companion of fifteen years this past friday....

to paraphrase a line in the book...

you gave more than you got in return

i miss you little buddy.....

11785

i've been working with old photos of inmates from

arkansas state prison lately. this piece is titled "11785"...

is it just me....or does this fellow resemble

don "barney fife" knotts?

(textures by jinterwas, brushes by chain, inmate photo courtesy of b. jackson, my own ephemera)

Even Eagles Need a Push Movie

Even Eagles Need a Push Movie: We've all seen it, or felt it, at some point in our life; how just one moment of encouragement can change a life forever. It can be the greatest gift you'll ever give...or receive.

ready for halloween?

getting ready for halloween?......i am.....

i'll share my eyes with you......

this is catman.

he is 15 years old and has been with me since he was a kitten....

and he's been an outside cat all these years.

i've noticed in the last month that his vision seemed to be failing.

last week i came to realize he is completely blind...

although he managed to get around very well...

except for some missed steps and a few head bumps.

i can't bring him inside after living outside for his entire life.

i frequently let him on the screened porch with me so he is

familiar with the floor plan.....so....for now....

it's his new home.

he was always content to sit at the glass door

and watch me inside the house from the porch.

now i look out and more often than not

he's facing the corner wall instead of the door

listening for me i assume......

i can't tell you how much it breaks my heart

to see him like that....

oh.....and the litter box.....

a new experience for him...

he always gets in the box.....

but usually backs up too far...

and poops over the side onto the porch...

he does the best he can.

so i'll do the best i can...

to care for him.

catman.....

i'll share my eyes with you.......

beet cake

i can't wait to try this cake by tiger in a jar.....

i wish all my recipes were captured this way....

in need of wings.......

feeling the need for change.......

and wings.......

angel flight.............

this is how i imagine angels see the world.........

national coffee day

it's national coffee day.....

like i need an excuse to drink more coffee.......

hook me up....i'll take mine intravenously.......

(image from pinterest)

sunray kelley

Want! Want! Want! one of these houses by Sunray Kelley..............

simple pleasures

"i lived in the wood until i was slain by the relentless axe. in life

i was silent....but in death my melody is exquisite."

~motto carved on a violin by luthier gasper duiffoprugcar

i watched a group of talented artisans make these at an 'old time' fiddlers convention

...held in a cow pasture by a creek... up in the north carolina mountains.

there was music...toe tapping...food...and fellowship aplenty.

simple pleasures....

my way..........

yep.......that's me!

found on pinterest

starlight freckles......

starlight freckles in a moonlit mountain sky.......

always someones puppet.....

"i've been a puppet...a pauper...a pirate...

a poet...a pawn and a 'queen'...

i've been up and down

and over and out....

and i know one thing...

each time i find myself flat on my face...

i pick myself up...

and get back in the race."

....do you ever feel like you're always someones puppet?

(graphics: the body farm, puppets, abandoned and rusty at deviantscrap)

what big eyes you have.....

Daniel Egneus has illustrated a retelling of Grimm's Red

Riding Hood. His art is magical.....

"her mind lives in a quiet room...

a narrow room...and tall...

with pretty lamps to quench the gloom

and mottoes on the wall.

there all the things are waxen neat

and set in decorous lines...

and there are posies...round and sweet...

and little straightened vines.

her mind lives tidily...apart

from cold and noise and pain...

and bolts the door against her heart...

out wailing in the rain."

~a retelling of Grimm's Red Riding Hood

these words speak of my world.....

thanks to schools.......

"if there were no schools to take children

away from home part of the time...

the insane asylums

would be filled with mothers."

~edgar w. howe

(graphics from finecraftedDesign)

Tim Walker Photography

Tim Walker Photography........WOW!