"Layers And Textures 01" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Layers and Textures".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Memorial Day" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Gold Lady - Week 23 - The Book of Days

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The week23 theme for my Book of Days was Gold Lady.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Steampunk Goggles" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Steampunk".

I love this theme but I always struggle to make something that is truly steampunk.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Collage 03" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Swami - Week 22 - The Book of Days

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The week22 theme for my Book of Days was Swami.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Fish Pink" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Fish".

I had to enforce my "pencils down rule" on myself with this. My art muse just isn't there for me these days.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Collage 02" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I think the one word that makes everything bearable is Acceptance. That word is also the final stage in the grieving process, when a loved one dies. But it can be applied to everything in life.

Throwing out garbage accumulated during one's life is liberating. When one's perspective changes, one realizes that some things that one thought were important aren't.

And when one accepts that the dreams and ambitions one had for one’s life will never happen, it’s easy to toss it all into the garbage, and never look back.

Bear - Week 21 - The Book of Days

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The week21 theme for my Book of Days was Bear.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Yellow And Black" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Happiness is...".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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Lord, I do fear
Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year;

God's World - Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Death Dream" - Postcard

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I cannot tell you how it was;
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and breezy day
When May was young; ah, pleasant May!

I cannot tell you what it was;
But this I know: it did but pass.
It passed away with sunny May,
With all sweet things it passed away,
And left me old, and cold, and grey.

May (by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894))

Elephant - Week 20 - The Book of Days

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The week20 theme for my Book of Days was Elephant.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Flamingo" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Flamingo".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Red Old Fashioned Bleeding Hearts - Photograph

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I took that photograph in my yard this past week.

This year, my only red Old Fashioned Bleeding Hearts plant isn't doing too well. I'm not sure if part of the problem is the plant is now being overshadowed by a bush that has started growing larger due to it getting more sunshine after five trees fell back in August 2020 due to Tropical Storm Isaias. I have a few other pink bleeding heart plants in a second flower bed, that never did well, so I might move all of them to a better location.

Old Fashioned Bleeding Hearts - Photograph

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I took those photographs in my yard this past week.

Beltane - Week 19 - The Book of Days

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The week19 theme for my Book of Days was Beltane.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.