We went there to get the feel of the remote place where the beautiful paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe were envisioned. Where letters to Alfred Stieglitz were written. I loved their letters, and even that they wrote them. Sometimes two and three a day, some of them 40 pages long.

Thanks for the challenge, Sylvia. I hope more than 8 is OK. I struggled to make the cute ugly jay photos work. :p They relate because the birds are part of our family and, because it's the same bird?

It didn't take long at all for the blue jays to show up when I put water in the pottery dish. Over the years they had become an important part of our family. The young blue jay was curious about everything, and I watched him long enough to get to see how he moved about and studied his world. I...

Inspired by ViVa's newest release, and I tried to match my typography to the style of the wordart in her kit.

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There were several night herons and a lot of blackbirds perched in the reeds. The herons were silent and still as they studied the water, and the refuge was quiet. I loved getting some photos of them when they flew, and spotting them when they almost blended in with the cattails.

The red sky lingered for a half hour, but the lighting was subdued and rain was coming. Our stretch of 15 days of temperatures above 90 degrees had ended with a cold front, a 25 degree drop, and rain. The sandhill crane was on the south lake, interacting with a night heron.

Just like in July, the red-winged blackbird flew off with the night heron, and because there was no scolding, I thought they must be friends coexisting among the cattails. For many years we learned the names of each bird, then finally we could study their habits as we kept returning.

We had hoped to stay up at Dillon and take the old road to the top of Glacier Mountain for your birthday. But there wasn't enough energy left to also make our monthly trip to see the birds. I'm not ready to say it won't happen but things that must get done take longer so there's just less time.

I saved this and was inspired to finish it using Jen's new Dreamy Nights paper, but will add my thoughts after our November election. It's about the hope and the power of having our first female president.

Inspired by Veer's "All the Pretty Birds." I wanted to see about framing, and it took me to the man in the moon.

Thanks! For perspective, the VA pays for hearing aids, but with them you can't hear birds. Stone got the good ones and paid a "hefty price," but he loves them. Now my new "Light Adjustable Lenses" that they'll implant in my eyes are even more than those, but as he points out, they'll last a...

None of us knows what's on the road ahead, but we're thankful to get to the big surprises of old age. even ones that insurance doesn't pay for. With cataract surgery I might be able to drive again. And we're going to be on that road a lot, with 20 of yhr 25 visits just for lens adjustments.

Thanks Susanne for this challenge. At the very end, I liked a little bit of stuff behind my main panels, and tucked in one more summer bonus word art because it was just part of one of ET's clusters that I liked for the background. :p

We planned to be back in Alamosa in a few weeks, but it would be different. Labor Day was on the way. The evacuation zone so close to us had lifted,but the big avian flu poultry extermination had left our store without eggs. New pocket bunnies and very tall grass greeted us when we got home.

This was my first attempt at mermaid art using joyfulheartdesigns-artsygoodness15, and I meant to post it on Jenn's birthday, but life got in the way.

Thanks for the challenge, Vicky! I enjoyed the freedom to create an edge to edge photo on a white space. :p

When I couldn't find a vintage photo, I took one from Jen's Ocean. Then I think maybe the colors were all I needed for inspiration, and then it was fun. :p If it would be more what you're after, I could try making her into a sepia print. :greengrin: