Multi-tasking on Tuesday with Acrobats

Ruby Tuesday - Acrobats at the OC Fair
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and Random Tuesday Thoughts

one acrobatic
act at the Orange County Fair ...
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Originals - straight out of the camera

Posterize


Spherize

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Invert


Invert with Poster Edges


Invert with Neon Glow and Poster Edges

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Just for FUN!
Solarize


Polar Coordinates

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It's been a BUSY Monday away from home
so I'll be playing 'catch up' with
blog visits tomorrow ...
therefore

will be added in the morning ... because
I'm too tired & hungry to think
right now at 6:45 pm
Monday evening.

Sigh! I'm getting a later than usual start at the computer this morning, but true to last night's promise ... I'm adding my Morning Musings in whatever Random Thought manner they choose to arise (before I do anything else) ... as I sip my morning coffee.

1. The fur-kids have been fed and I've started a load of laundry, glanced through my email & checked my blogs for new comments.
I had minimal time at the computer yesterday, but am hoping to catch up with Monday visits today ... then make my Tuesday rounds.

2. I appreciate everyone who has dropped by already and I freely admit that making mosaics then experimenting with filters in Photoshop 6 is great fun for me! Sharing some of my favorite results and seeing how others respond is 'kewl' too. Thanks to those of you who take time to 'embiggen' the mosaics and share your opinion in comments ;--)

3. Molly still misses Jenke, but she's going to have a new playmate when Aloha (the Dalmation puppy who moved into Jenke's old house) grows up. If you missed these and have a few minutes this morning, you might enjoy: A Farewell Playdate, Follow up on Molly's Loss, and Monday Multi-tasking with Molly's Yellows & Blues.

4. I continue to swim in the mornings for exercise (anywhere between 8 & 10am). Today I'll probably go over there around 9:00 even though the sun probably won't come out until much later here at the beach. It's more like June gloom than mid-August ... so when others talk about 'Fall' and 'Back to School' ... I find it hard to wrap my mind around the possibility that summer is drawing to a close when it hasn't really started (except for a couple of weeks of unusually HOT weather in July).

5. Listening to news of the multiple wildfires to the north around the Santa Cruz area evokes vivid memories of fires in Southern California and my prayers for containment and recovery go out to all involved. The dry conditions coupled with coastal winds makes fighting such fires extremely dangerous and difficult ... and I'm grateful the Santa Ana winds aren't blowing off the desert.

6. I'm hoping to put together a My World post about another Free Concert in the Park I attended on Sunday evening where a Dixieland Band put on a fun show and where several participants decided to 'dance' to the music! Great fun ;--)

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Here's wishing a Happy Tuesday to all!

Thought for Today
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." Eleanor Roosevelt

Thursday Thirteen - Looking at the Sky

and Haiku Friday too

Original - straight out of the camera

(The mosaic ... in all it's various forms ... contains 13 Views of the same place directly across the street from my patio. Is it not amazing how different the sky can be? Do you not see something odd about the center photo ... something clearly NOT present in the others?)

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Thirteen Sky Vistas
shared earlier at Happily
Retired Gal in

thirteen mosaics.
Here are five more just because
I kept on playing

just to see what would
happen with some PSE
filters ... here they are.

Accented Edges

Ocean Ripples

Chalk & Charcoal

Polar Coordinates

Twirl

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Thursday Thirteen, Looking at the Sky, and Haiku Friday

Thought for Today
"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, life gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner." Jonas Salk

Haiku Sky Watch Friday - Filtered Views

T-13 & Color Carnival is in the NEXT post
HF#148 - Sky Watch#57

Shared previously

untouched ... (as a T-13) ...

revisited with

Photoshop 'filters'

applied creating subtle

'kewl' variations

'Fresco' filter first

followed by 'Palette Knife' then

ending with 'Smudge Stick'

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Thought for Today.

"Problems worth of attack, prove their worth by hitting back."
Piet Hein

Happiness, Kindness, and Love

I'm trying an experiment
with my Zen Cards today and hopefully it will work.

I think it was Will Rogers who said,
"Most people are about as happy
as they make up their minds to be."

It took me a long time
to realize
the fact that I could be happy
or I could be "right"
but seldom
both at the same time.
:)

Learning to be as kind & gentle
with myself
as I've always been with others,
took even longer,
but I realized eventually
that until I could treat myself
with genuine consideration
there was always a price to be paid
by all concerned.

Everyone wins
when we each take care of
ourselves as lovingly
as we care for others.

Learning to
love and accept myself
just as I am (warts and all)
allows me
to love and accept others
just as THEY are
without needing to change a thing.

We're not perfect
and maybe never will be
but perfect
is
boring!

(See these song lyrics at Small Reflections)

This post didn't turn out like I'd hoped, but it's good enough for the moment at least because "I'm not perfect and I know I never will be ..."