Happy Valentine's Day!!!

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Well, Valentine's Day is finally here!  And would you believe, I have a different Val-themed-pic to show.  -grin-  A shadows and Valentines pic.  (Ahemmm, and the blind over the sink, needs to be wiped off...)  ,-)

Obviously, my theme today, is Light and Shadow...

When you write your blog entry, is everything set to Centered?  Or to Left?  Or to Right?

Are you all ready to change your Background and Blog Look???   Now that the big Valentine Themed Holiday, is over?   I know!  If you are a busy gal, this blog-look-change is not at the top of your list.  But when one is an "olden gal", with more time, it can be *Important.*  :-)))))))))     But, what will it be??????

First, I need a new photo of mine, to be a new Header Pic.  ~~~~~~~~~~   Then I need to try to draw-water-color, a new Background.  But then, comes the problem of taking a pic of it, and having the background show up NICE and WHITE.    ~~~~~~~~~~     Yes, I wrote an email to Susan B., asking her, how it is done?  Hope she has time, to advise me.  :-)  

In my blog, a Dear Reader commented that it's getting hard to come up with nice blogging ideas...  Since she doesn't do crafts everyday, or go to interesting places daily. And she no longer belongs to clubs.  So I commented back...

MY DEAR, I don't do ANY crafts.  A lot of days, I don't even get out of the house.  And I don't belong to "anything."  But yet, as you have discovered, I blog-like-a-bit-of-a-maniac.  -gigggles-

To me, blogging is simply About Life.  My Life happens to be lived mostly at home, and so that's what  I blog about.

And THAT is what I want to read, when I visit other blogs in Pretty Blog Land!!!  I want the reading of a blog, to seem like coming into your home, sitting down across your table from you, and then we have a chat.  THAT is blogging, in "Pretty Blog Land", to me.

So please, never feel you have to "do" something, to have something to blog about.  I love blogging, which is just about living.  Bits and pieces of our living.  Not allllll of it.  Not a Dear Diary thing.

But just this and that, this and that... Happenings, "wonderings", books read, hopes, irritations at times too....  Etc.

My (long and drawn out) message is?  That bloggers tend to worry too much, about what-to-blog.  Worry that it has to be fancy, or sparkly, or brilliant, or exciting, or....  Life isn't all those things, every day.

I love life, every day, blogged about.  How about you????

"Auntie"


What-cha'-think???
Do SOME bloggers worry too much, about "what to blog about"? 
What-cha'-think???

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Should ask the "Mistress of....."... :-))))))

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I'm running out of blogging inspiration.  Perhaps it's because I'm getting tired of all the Valentine's Day Stuff.  :-))))   This happens to me often...  After I've done a lot of *decorating* for a particular holiday, I'm sick of it, before the holiday actually occurs.  ,-)   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥     This is not earth-shaking.  Just an observation.

Dee is going to try night-time-photography!  She is going to use her Night Time Setting, for the first time.   Hooooray!   Please share all you notice/learn, about this, Dee.  Because I have never, never, never mastered it.  But love some of the effects....  Of photos, after dark....  Especially what this does, to how forms of light, appear.    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥      Hehhh, how about that????   I did find some more blogging inspiration!  From another blogger!  Thank you Dee.

Since I'm on this 'blogging-stuff-kick', I might as well continue.  :-)   Since it's so, so, so near to being finished with Valentine's Day stuff,  WHAT will I choose next?   I've had a couple of ideas, for trying to water-color a new Background.  (Hmmmm, what is the proper way to express that????  How say "DO a water-color"?  It's not "painting" like oils or acrylics are...  It's not simply drawing...  Hmmmm...???)

I suppose I should ask the Master Mistress Of Water Coloring...  Susan Branch.    :-)  I should also ask her, what kind of lighting she uses?  Or rather, what kind of lighting is used, when her Art is photographed???   Here, the best way for me to take a pic of something I did, is to lay it on white board, on the floor, in the full sunlight pouring in Den door....   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥     But this does not, not, not strike me as the only way!!!  LOL.

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"I don't understand why Cupid was chosen 
to represent Valentine's Day. 
 When I think about romance, 
the last thing on my mind is a short, 
chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon."
~Author Unknown

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*Warning*! Deep thinking, enclosed. :-)

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See those "sort-of-X's-of-light", mid photo?  They were not out in the snow.  Since I took this photo, through window glass, and "into" the sun, I guess those (sort-of-X's-of-light) are an effect of sun, on the window glass.  Cool effect!  :-) 

And it happened three times.  So naturally, I had to post all 3 pics!  "Surprise Photo Op" kind-of...  Never, never, never pass up such!!!!!!!!  :-)

I am not scientific.  Don't have any bend-that-way.  So thank you to "Ellen In Oregon," for explaining, why candles seem to *eat smoke.*  :-)

I have another *wonder.*  And don't know how to prove it, scientifically. 

But......................................

On Earth... 

Every living thing, is made-up-of-and-from other things, which have been living....   In other words, no cow eats some plastic, along with her feed, and incorporates that plastic, into her calf, growing within her.............    Nor do any other animals, do so........   Nor do human mothers incorporate random pieces of plastic, into their gestating fetus.............

Living things, are made up, from other living things, which have died.

Sooooooooooooooooo...  If one holds that each human, has a unique 'soul' or 'life force' or whatever one wants to call it.....  Then it can truly be said, that no other human being, was ever exactly like each of us are, as to our unique 'soul' or 'life force'....   

BUT  THE  BODY!!! 

Every ding-dang body, is made up of previously living stuff.  Bodies are made up of constantly reused stuff-of-earth.  So NO  BODY  can be believed to be totally UNIQUE.  Our body (and bodies of other living things) are made up of the Earth stuff, which was here in the beginning....  And is used, over and over and over again....  Earth stuff, being used to birth living things, which live and die and decompose back into the Earth, and are then used, by coming generations. 

The Original Form of Recycling!!!!!!  

YES????????

Gabe was telling us about ducks, which he learned from a book.  Complete with arm movements, to show how ducks flap their wings, when they fly.  I asked him for another demonstration, and I got this.  ,-)

This Header pic will soon be gone, because Valentine's Day will come and go.  And I LIKE it.  So I'm "keeping" it, by posting it.  :-)  It was one example, of the effect which I try for, a lot.  And don't usually accomplish it.  Up-close-is-clear...  Distance-is-fuzzy...  Particularly wonderful, for capturing *fuzzy* faerie lights...  :-)

We are not the same person this year as last;
nor are those we love.
It is a happy chance if we,
changing, 
continue to love a changed person."
~Anon

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I think that quote above,  
is one of the most brilliant sets of words,  
ever thought of, or written...

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Friday... 11:00am... This and that... ♥ Link addition

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Lookie!!!  The local Gluten Free Bakery made Valentine themed Cookies, this week.  Next week, they will make more-Valentine-"Goodies" but they will be sure to be G/F versions of chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.  Which I can't have.  But I'm happy to have these Valentine themed Sugar Cookies!    ~~~~~~~~~~~        "Uncle A." had an early morning meeting, and picked them up, before coming home.  Along with her excellent G/F Bread.  :-)

Ahemmmmmmm....  It's not really that I am desperate, for blogging photos/words...  Not!   -Hehhhhhhh-  Not really, really, really desperate...  But!   Well, it does sound a wee bit desperate, when I  choose to take a pic of my new computer desk waste basket.  -sigh-    ~~~~~~~~~~~        I've had it here, a few days, but forget about it.  Had some ripped-up-throw-away-stuff on the little table, right above it.  THEN  I  REALIZED!!!  I have a waste basket, right here!!!!!!!!   And dropped the little pile of "stuff," into it!    ~~~~~~~~~~~        Exciting stuff, I know.  -moan-

More exciting stuff!!!  Now I'm following 2 live blogs, about "Nemo."  Both can be found on the Weather Underground site.  ,-)

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LINK  TO  LIVE  BLOG

Live Blog: Historic Nor'easter Set For Northeast......

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Gabe...  Waiting...  For 'Pop' to get him a cookie...

 Look at those strawberries...  Don't they look almost tooooooooooooo RED, to you?  They struck me as that way.  Guess I'm second-guessing all grocery produce, these days.  Guess I go along with the idea of....  "If-it's-not-in-season-where-you-live", do without it.    ~~~~~~~~~~~      Is this just being grumpy?  Or is there validity, to it?   

Little hand.................  Big hand.................    :-)

Love it, when the morning sunshine makes a spotlight, on Gabe's hair.  It looks golden again!  Where actually, it's getting quite brown-ish.   But in the sunlight, it takes on that faerie-tale-spun-gold-effect.  :-)   And photos, capture it, forever....    :-)

"It is not only 
necessary to love, 
it is necessary 
to say so."
~~French saying

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WOW!!! A first!!! WoW!!!

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"Byzantium"  is the story of mother and daughter vampires, whose epic drama spans centuries.  Oh wow!  Oh wow!  Oh wow!  By clicking on that click-able link ("Byzantium") ...  You can go to a site, where you can watch a trailer, for the film.  :-))))))))))))))))))))

Yes, I found this on "Gossip Cop" blog.   ,-)   That blog is worth more than just separating 'rumor' from 'fact,' in the world of .......   Those silly famous people.  -grin-

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I took a picture, of my very first attempt, at "painting" my own Background.  -grin-

What do I write/say next, huuuuuu?

Something like;  "I know it's hardly professional, and not up to, what a real water-colorist  can paint/do...."

Or;  "I know that "S.B." is not going to be worried, about being put-out-of-business.  -Ha-ha-hah-"

But!!!

My Wild Woman will not allow such!  She will only allow me to exalt, in accomplishment!  She will only allow me to be so proud of myself, because I actually put brush to paper, and made some sort of a picture!!!   My Wild Woman says that to act *all-silly-little-ol'-me,* and in a self-depreciating way,  is to degrade my accomplishment.  :-((((  She says that I need, need, need to bask in the Happiness and Joy of having accomplished something creative.  My Wild Woman  is the best of Mothers, to me.

I am so happy, that I have begun to find and listen to, even a tiny bit of what My Wild Woman inside, has to share with me.

I wish every woman, the same...

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It's working!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My reading of "Women Who Run With The Wolves" is already paying off.  On Sat. I brought out my paper, brushes and water colors, and began........

Just a beginning...  And I didn't seem to be able to get a photo of what I did, with enough WHITE-ness showing in the photo.  But today/Sun. I'll try a different way of photographing it.

The BEGINNING, was/is so important.  I have been wanting to try Water Coloring, for a long time.  Too long a time.  Saturday's happening, was a break-through.    -happy sigh-

I am still reading the book.  It is long and it is deep, but it is being worth it.  To have given my inner Wild Woman enough Strength, to call me to get out my paper, brushes, colors..........  And to begin and finish one simple little piece.  

It may be just one...  But it feels like *a million*...  :-)

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Trying to capture morning sunlight....   As "sparkles" on snow and "light shadows" on inside wall...

You *have* to tell me, that you see that 3 "sparkles" to the left side of the photo!!!  ,-)))

*Shadows* of Light, on brick wall beside fireplace...

"The night was clear and frosty,

all ebony of shadow 

and silver of snowy slope;

big stars were shining over the silent fields."

~Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Sparkle" left...  "Sparkle" right...  :-)

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THANK YOU for the comment/replies to my question of yesterday...   I enjoy every 'take.' view and reply!  But me-thinks I need to do a post some day, on what the term "Crone" means to me. 

It's not an easy term to figure out, without some "digging."  But you know me!  I love to "DIG"!!!

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