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1 day ago by Butchy and Snickers

Hey Pals, Well our Friday is off to a rotten start. Poor Miss Snickers had seizures AGAIN this morning. Mama just couldn't believe it. Mama is soooooooo MAD at the Seizure Monster. Snickers has a vet appointment for Monday, so we were hoping no more seizures until then at least, but NOOOOOOOOO, the ...

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1 day ago by Becky K.

Visit Melissa at The Inspired Room for more Beautiful Life Posts. Thanks for hosting this weekly event, Melissa! Yesterday, in the space of about an hour Chelsea and I walked our favorite paths at Longwood Gardens. At one point I went into the Conservatory while she waited outside overlooking the fo ...

Hospitality Lane - hospitalitylane.blogspot.com · Rank: 67,180 · 16 references

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3 days ago by Building a pond author

You may have chosen to install a pond in your backyard in order to grow water lilies and other aquatic plants. But even if you put in a pond to raise fish, or simply to enjoy the soothing sights and sounds of a water feature, plants are still an important part of a pond. They help to filter the wate ...

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6 days ago by Jeffrey J. Boron

One of a group of ponds that are part of a wetland area within Elk/Beaver Lake Park, these small ponds are full of flowering lily pads. As many as four or five varieties of water lilies make spectacular floating carpets on the ponds. I painted this piece en plein air Friday morning and plan on a ret ...

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7 days ago by lauraherring88

Friday morning we somehow managed to drag ourselves out of bed to head to IES to go on our excursion to Giverny. It was difficult but there was no way I was going to miss this! On the two hour bus ride, everyone from our little group was completely passed out. We’d all gotten around 3 hours of sleep ...

Un poisson de l'eau - lauraherringabroad.wordpress.com · 1 reference

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7 days ago by alanspockblog

This is not a unique monster, it is part of a large extended family of leviathans that live a few miles from my home! Many are close to a meter long and draw large crowds of people who bring children and grandparents to view them feeding. As there is no fishing allowed, these kings of the lake will ...

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10 days ago by Ishtar

Layers can reveal complexity, like peeling away the layers of an onion. Layers can be protective, such as piling on clothes in sub-zero Boston weather. Layers can also be oppressive, like flakes of honey-drenched baklava, adding suffocating, cloying density. I’m a second-generation American woman of ...

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11 days ago by HANNIBAL

One of my favorite times of the year is when the Lily Pads have bloomed. I didn't have any luck finding bullfrogs, but had a great time chasing butterflies and dragons too.

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11 days ago by Kim Day

I was fortunate enough to have an extra day in Paris before I had to fly home from a work trip last month. So, I took a tour out to Giverny where Monet painted his water lily paintings. It was a holiday weekend in France and the highways leading out of Paris were clogged with Parisians heading out t ...

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13 days ago by Mike

Using the “clarity” slider toward the minus side on your favorite Camera Raw processor or Lightroom can give you a smoooooooth diffuse effect. However, in this case I wanted the water lily flower to be sharp… So I made virtual copy of the photo. In copy one it’s as sharp as a tack. In copy [...]

Making Photographs in Seattle - photomaking.wordpress.com