Wonderful! Love the hair.

Super cool and I love that you used DDG for this. Also, you matted the art so it's tamed a bit. Love! And congrats on the Standing O!

On Monday we got heavy snow early, but the forecast was for sun in the afternoon. We waited and went out to Monte Vista around 1 pm, when most of the 2-inches of snow had melted. I spotted a canada goose on her nest near the pond overlook, and the male was on guard at a distance.

I love the postage background mat showing the history, and the compass we need, and how the earth is about how we're all connected.

In the 90's I was a paper artist along with other Stampington people, and hosted swaps. I made books and sent them back to everyone, and always here would be buttons, fibers and other things people included that made it impossible for the handmade books to be flat. It kinda made me crazy so I...

Gorgeous. It's snowing in Alamosa. A couple of inches so far. ;)

Love the hair. Want mine like that. :D

The main refuge waterway had filled as snow melted during March, but there was still plenty of capacity for more water in the outer marshes. The canada geese were all in pairs, not in larger groups, and it looked like they were ready to nest. There were a lot fewer cattails remaining.

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Those gorgeous birds! Your beautifully blended deck and pond photo makes me feel like I'm there, and the postcard is just so clever to mat the photos.

The elements and colors make your page come alive!

Beautiful. Everything is still very brown here. Great background for these photos. ;)

Love your photo of a wonderful place with a lovely memory, the lace and the splashes of color that work so well with the pink in the photo.

LOL The real thing. Redwing blackbird photos vintage fresh from the refuge as of 9:30 this morning, but maybe you meant Pavlinka's overlay. :D

There was more sun on our trip to Alamosa than expected, and with dry roads & light traffic we got there much earlier than in March. We had time before Calvillo's opened to visit both ANWR and Blanca Vista Park. We saw blackbirds, canada geese and a single small bush turning green.

I made my normal double page layout and cropped this template challenge page from it. You can see the 2-page version in my gallery if you're interested in the bigger picture. I shocked myself by placing the oval frame in the gutter, but I was fatigued from the trip and didn't have energy for the...

I seem to jump at every chance and excuse to make pages of a book within my book. Thanks for your challenges every one of them Nancy! ;)

As we packed for our trip to Alamosa, knowing the weather would be very "iffy," we reminded ourselves of that last drive on I-80 in an April snowstorm, so much worse traffic and longer distance. We didn't know what birds we'd see, but we were up for our first April trip to Alamosa.

:cool:Thank you for choosing my page. Makes my day.

So beautiful and happy. I can't help but feel a lift coming over me. As in, inspired to copy your wonderful design. ;)