Great story! If I lived near enough, I'd have been one of them. I always love the NYT articles and like to discover stuff like the Harana store. Congratulations to all! :cool:

Beautiful! I love that we go for mobs of birds instead of mobs of people. We've seen the snow geese and tundra swans in northern Utah but we have to drive for 10 hours each way. You are very lucky!

Wonderful! The background, the layering, and the design.

Love. Love everything and your use of white space with a tiny bit of texture is wonderful.

When we saw those night herons on the little island again, and now knew we would be able to find them in the future, we were thankful for our trip to the refuge. There weren't many birds but that tall bird standing above all the others turned out to be a sandhill crane, and they've been gone for...

Cool design and an interesting destination. Love your God question. ;)

Great way to document this adventure!

Love, love your use of white space, Great cover!

Love the contrasts and the dark background,

Gorgeous ART, Nancy! Love the colors and textures, and especially the lace.

Great blending of the photo with your background. It really settled in there, and nice elements to complement it.

Love your textures and how the stains are perfect with your photo.

On Tuesday we were lucky to get about a half hour of sun before it clouded over and looked like it would rain. The yellow-headed blackbird showed off and we saw a lone sandhill crane, but there were very few birds, even less than on Monday. We left the refuge by 6:30 am.

The Highwaymen, a group of Florida landscape artists, painted lots of palm trees and used a lot of red and purple. I liked the white edges on puffy clouds, but our clouds and trees are different. After a while, I connected with the colors (of course) and found a tree to make purple.

This started out to be for the agency challenge, but it wasn't the right flavor. I liked it and couldn't toss it, so I added on the left to make it another double layout.

Love your super-tall journal and everything in it. Makes me smile and is convincingly real-life paper on a messy workspace. ;)

I've always loved your 4th of July pages, and again you don't disappoint. Love every detail that contributes to the whole sense of patriotism and a festive spirit, and yay for it being yet another joy ride page. :D

Simply. Delightful. And so full of creativity!