Think Pink!

Wishing you all well. :) For Sight and Sound: Back to the '80s with talented guy Terence Trent D'Arby from his debut album "Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby" (1987) Wishing Well Wishing Well

This week in SSC: "This year as with last year, the challenge will be about New Year's Resolutions." My resolution in 2020 is a simple one but not so easy just yet. I love to modify favorite recipes and make them more healthy. I would like to perfect my homemade chocolate recipe using healthier alternative ingredients. Wish me luck! :) ....and for Sight and Sound: Simple Minds from their album "Our Secrets are the Same" (2004) Death By Chocolate Death By Chocolate

This verbena has been a real star in the yard this summer. It really is this neon too and is still blooming. The hummingbirds, butterflies and bees all really enjoyed visiting it this year. Verbena is usually treated as an annual here but I was so pleasantly surprised to see it return this spring even after our really cold temperatures last winter. For Sight and Sound another great hit from this group: Sly and the Family Stone from their 1970 single: Live: Everybody is a Star Single: Everybody is a Star Everybody is a Star

This week in SSC: "Planned Overexposure" Geraniums on the water ...and for Sight and Sound: Manfred Mann's Earth Band Blinded By the Light Blinded By the Light

A little spring bouquet for you (more in the PIPs!) ...and for Sight and Sound A lovely instrumental by John Frusciante (RHCP) from his 2001 album "To Record Only Water for Ten Days" ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫

For Sight and Sound: Stone Temple Pilots from their album "Tiny Music..." (1996) Daisy Daisy

For Sight and Sound: The Zombies from their album "Odessey and Oracle" (1968) Time of the Season Time of the Season

Some flowers for our friends in France after yesterdays shocking events.

A lovely sunset the other night. I wonder where that plane was going.... (Best on Black) For Sight and Sound: John Denver and Olivia Newton-John from his album "Windsong" (1975) Live w/o Olivia: Fly Away Album with Olivia: Fly Away Fly Away

For Sight and Sound ♥ ♥ ♥ The Troggs from 1967 Love is all Around Love is all Around Love is all Around

This week in SSC: "Water Droplets" I was in luck the other morning. We had a good rain and then the sun came out so there were lots of water droplets on everything! This is one of my favorite geraniums that I got this summer. It is just loaded with flowers and covered with rain drops. I used my new Sigma 60mm f2.8 lens with a couple of Meike extension tubes for this shot. Dee Clark from 1961 Raindrops Raindrops

I took this pic while traveling across the Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, WA. I would have loved to make the houses pink but since I don't know how I made the whole thing pink instead. I always used to color outside the lines anyway. :D Hopefully the good folks at "Sight and Sound" will let me sneak this one into their group (those admins. are pretty tough though. ;-) (Original in PIP) ♪♫ He's got an interstate runnin' through his front yard ♫ ♪ John Mellencamp from album "Uh-Huh" (1983) Live: Pink Houses Pink Houses Pink Houses

This week in SSC: Use Post Processing on your photo of choice. Since last week was "no processing" whatsoever, this week "The sky's the limit!" I took a photo of some petunias and gave it an "oil painting" effect. I'll include the original in below. ...and for Sight and Sound: Bread from 1971: If If

This week in SSC: Flowers SOOC (Straight Out of Camera) I had fun with my flowers this week. :) This week we really had to pay attention to what we were doing before pressing the shutter button. This was a good thing and made me aware of what I could do to improve my images without having to resort to post-processing like I now realize I usually do. I also found some settings in my camera that I didn't know were there. All in all, a good learning experience. Here is my pink hydrangea SOOC! (and some PIPs) ....and for Sight and Sound Billy Joel from his "The Stranger" album (1977) Just the Way You Are Just the Way You Are

For Sight and Sound: Remembering Dan Fogelberg on what would have been his 67th birthday. A favorite from his album "Twin Sons of Different Mothers" with Tim Weisberg (1978) Paris Nocturne Paris Nocturne