Nobody walks in LA...

Scott Kelby's 3rd annual photowalk.  My first time... I did the Sunset Junction walk in Los Angeles, very cool, will definitely do it again next year.

Mel

Ahoy Mate

sleeping...my favorite time.

learning to sit and doing a pretty good job, he likes the treats that come afterward.  Good boy!

Maximus

first day home, still little and cute!

Liberate your art postcard swap - blog hop

Thank you ladies for the awesome artwork, I didn't thank each of you personally but I so enjoyed and looked forward to receiving these in the mail. What a great project... Thanks Kat for all your work in putting this together and I look forward to the next one.  More time and a better idea of what to do next time.
Chris Jessnear
Brenda Gottsabend
Melissa
Wanda
Denise
Kat... Thanks again to all for the beautiful postcards.
I tried to link this to liberate your art blog, but not quite sure how to do it!

fly in your eye

Made her day!

Lotusland

Santa Barbara, lotusland... they bloom from May thru August.

postcard 2

Thanks Melissa for sharing your  heART with me.

How to paint an owl...

I'm taking an online course... painting the backgrounds was fun and messy...  drawing the owls was a different story.  These are a work still in progress.

Liberate your art postcard swap - received my first postcard!

Kat Sloma's liberate your art postcard swap.  254 artists from around the world signed up to participate in the sharing of their images/art on a printed postcard.  Each participant sent 5 postcards to Kat, who then collected, organized and distributed them back out into the world.  We will all receive 5 postcards in the mail from fellow "SWAPPERS" and one from Kat.
This was a great project... Thanks Kat for all the fun!
This postcard is from Brenda Gottsabend from how to feather an empty nest.  She likes to repeat elements in her photographs to create a different reality... her alternate world.

After the party...

First journal for Kat eye view "Find Your Eye" photo course.  Why I love photography?
It started about 28  years ago with the birth of my first child.  I didn't want to miss a thing... so photography was a way of DOCUMENTING my life.  I have three kids, the youngest is 24 and all are out of the house:(    So, my LOVE and PASSION for photography went into a different direction.  It was more about creating something that makes me HAPPY, to stop and take notice, to capture an image, capture the beauty, and capture a moment in time that would normally go unnoticed by others.  I love this shot because I found a BEAUTIFUL MESS after the guests had gone home.

the hills are alive...

My remake of the Sound of Music... just call me Janice von Trapp?

snow fence

Taken on our trip to Anchorage, Alaska.  This is at the Glen Alps trail head on Flattop mountain, the most climbed mountain in the state.

this little piggy...

at the Santa Barbara County Fair.  I love to go just to see the baby piggies.  Ted has to drag me away so that others can take a peek also.  Mom had 16 in the litter,  laid down on 6 of them, now there are 10.

baby chucks...

waiting till the day she can go home.

The sweetest thing ever...

Sleeping peacefully... with a finger in every hole!!!

check-up time

The Doctors and Nurses giving Lucy her daily routine inspections.  How does anyone sleep through this?

Lamb Chop

 Grandma Becky and Grandpa Kevin brought you Lamp Chop to keep you company in the hospital.

Cindy Lou Hoo

this picture reminds me of the little girl in the Grinch who stole Christmas story.

Dad and pee wee

You can see the marks from the daily heel pricks for blood.