"Pumpkin Procession" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Pumpkins".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

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

"Ladder" - Postcard

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

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

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

Featured in the weekly sampler.

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Step by step, one by one
Higher and higher
Step by step, rung by rung
In climbing Jacob's ladder

All I want from tomorrow
Is to get it better than today

Jacob's Ladder - Huey Lewis & The News

"Add Wings And A Crown" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Add Wings And A Crown".

Note: I've been getting errors trying to leave comments on blogs, but I don't know why. Deann left me a comment, saying I'm being marked as spam.

It's hard to see, but I added a crown over the man's hat, in addition to his wings. I also put a crown on the eagle.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

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

Cosmos Stars - Week 16 - The Book of Days

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This week's theme for my Book of Days was Cosmos Stars.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36.

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.

"Cosmos Stars" - Postcard

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

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36

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

"Magic Keys Book" - Postcard

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

I went to the beat of my own drummer on this. One thing led to another, and I used two keys as metal hardware hinges for a book. A third key is the "magic key" on the cover. The background had a honeycomb pattern, so I added a few bees to complete this piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36

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

The Reader - Week 02 - The Book of Days

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This week's theme for my Book of Days was The Reader.

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.

"Knights" - Postcard

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

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

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

"Emerald Ireland" - Postcard

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I'm in the process of going through my UFO (UnFinished Objects & Projects) pile to complete them or throw them into the scrap heap.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

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

"Devil's Death Dance" - 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.)

"Mystic Dream" - Postcard

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I'm in the process of going through my UFO (UnFinished Objects & Projects) pile to complete them or throw them into the scrap heap.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

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

"Rainy Day" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Rainy Day".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

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

"Astronomer Meets Death" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

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

"God Is Burning In The Fire" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

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

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In the mirror the face I see...
Who was I?
Voices I hear like a distant choir
Calling me closer to the fire
God is burning in the fire

Closer to the Fire - Steph Copeland and Tara Watts (The Heretics)

"T Stands For Teddy, Tea, and Spooky Trails Book" – Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

Teddy will be serving double duty as my main image plus as my "T-Day ticket" for my T-Day posts.

As many of you might know, ghosts, haunted locations, etc. are a favorite subject of mine. I have never experienced anything supernatural, but I enjoy searching for it during my Haunted Explorations of (allegedly) Haunted Places.

I received the non-fiction book Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Connecticut: Hiking the State's Legends, Hauntings, and History by Stephen Gencarella, as a Christmas gift this year. (He also has a similar book for Massachusetts).

He combines historical facts and tales with the actual locations where one can go hiking. He presents the information in a fun way, and made me chuckle a few times as I read this book. Many of the haunted stories seemed to be created (or revived) to boost tourism in the state in those places, in the early decades of the 1900s, which was interesting to learn.

I'm hoping to get to some of the places he mentioned as hiking outings with Team T, this Spring. Although Connecticut is one of the smallest states in the US, some of the locations are somewhat far from where I am, so they would have to be planned as day trips. Teddy is already saying the ghosts are real in all of these places, and we need to go find them! I told Teddy he should write his own book, titled Teddy Tall Tales. ;-)

"T Stands For Teddy, Cocoa, and The Hound Of The Baskervilles" – Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

Teddy will be serving double duty as my main image plus as my "T-Day ticket" for my T-Day posts.

This past week, I finally took Teddy and his "cousin", Halloween Teddy, on the long awaited and promised outing to the Hound of the Baskerville Woods, as Teddy calls it. This time, we didn't hear the disembodied howl of the ghost hound that we had heard the first time we walked there. (We left "Minnie T" home, because Teddy said it would be too scary for him. ;-)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes stories (the text can be read at Project Gutenberg here), and the book was a Christmas gift this year, as was the tin of peppermint cocoa. Teddy said another one of his cousins was the model for the bear on the tin. ;-)

"Spells And Magic" - Postcard

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This was an art piece that I ultimately rejected for use as my guest host piece, but I liked it enough to keep it.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

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

"Spells And Magic 2" - Postcard

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This was an art piece that I ultimately rejected for use as my guest host piece, but I liked it enough to keep it.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

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

"Spells And Magic 3 (SPA Guest Host Art Piece)" - Postcard

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This week I have the honor of guest hosting Sunday Postcard Art, and I chose the challenge theme "Spells And Magic."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

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

"Astronomer" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Visual (as in glasses, optical, visible, sight, etc.)"

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

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