Those are some mighty cliffs! We have crazy dunes on the Cape, but as you say, it's totally manageable if traveling light. Love the VW bus...oh, the memories! Very refreshing layout--could use some of that now that we're back in the Heat Dome!

Yeah, that's a rabbit hole for me. Even though I am pretty steely about not going down it, sometimes I do fall in....

And making an album is a sure way to soften those "back from family vacation" blues! Thanks for your lovely comments!

Confession: I was stalking people for crazy windblown hair pictures! It got to be a thing with me, as the wind never let up. Back at home it was the unprecedented heat dome though, so we were NOT complaining! The tech code was something I learned to do in the aA album class--so simple and it has...

It sure was nice when those grandkiddos went to sleep!

More sunset. It seems that we just couldn't stop taking pictures. I made this spread the same way as I've been working on others in this album—batch five spreads, then go back and artify five spreads. In this case I added an extraction, which I then “stickerized,” and also used a sticker title...

Thanks! It's definitely coming along very quickly. I'm finding it a lot less stressful to get the story down first, and then deal with all the artistic touches that I love (and which always seem to take me a long time) later.

Thanks! I know what you mean about there being so much to learn. I use an ancient version of Elements and I still have to look stuff up and no way am I taking advantage of all the possibilities within the program. Trial and error is my good friend!

I had stuffed this spread so full of photos during the batching process that when it came time to finish up the batch, I was quite at a loss to add a title. So I did something I rarely do—intruded upon a photo. The problem was that the wordART, little tag, and jewel faded into the sunsetting...

Fabulous layout, fabulous birds. In April, in search of the migratory glossy ibis in Cape Cod, we came across three snowy egrets, quite different from the great egrets--we called them the "three stooges" because...well....at rest they bore an uncanny resemblance.

I get it. Why, oh why? Good medicine to bring those past good memories front and center now!

May the independence that our flag symbolizes continue to stand strong. Beautiful layout, and the grunge really feels right.

Oh, lovely! The cat is rendered so artfully.

I've been following the exploits of Count Binface (which I find preferable to reading about the upcoming US elections). Your layout is excellent, and I hope to work up equal motivation to journal about what's happening here at some point.

Crushed cars! That's definitely an eye-catching part of this delightful layout. Those cars did get me thinking, though, about what we love about Independence Day, and how important it is to preserve it for future generations.

Very cool segmentation of the imagery. Adds major visual intensity!

This feedback is just so happy-making and validating! Thank you, thank you!

Thank you! I'm actually surprised at how easily this method of working is coming to me--I estimate I'm about halfway batched and a quarter of the spreads are mostly finished, and I've been at this for only a couple of weeks. The finishing is definitely the speed bump for me, I guess. I never...

Wow! That's wonderful news! Thank you so much!

Yeah, we felt lucky to be there during the week of the New York "heat dome," when it reached a real feel of 106F here at home--yikes!