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September 30, 2008

South Hams

  Anabs-Arash-and-Pops  Poppy-and-Scruffy-in-the-fi Searching-for-Scruffy Hiking-the-blustery-fields Me-with-muddy-boots Poppy-and-Scruffy-at-entrac   New-blurry-pubs We-love-Scruffy Bess-and-other-animals-in-t Me-at-entrance-to-farmhouse Unspoiled-beauty Nanny's-grave  Poppy-at-entrance-to-the-ch Annebella, our friend Arash and my niece Poppy visited lovely Totnes. Annebella used to live in a great flat up next to the clock.

Poppy and Annebella and I stayed at our Auntie Angela and Uncle David's farm. It's absolutely beautiful. It's called Keynedon Barton and is also a guesthouse. The farm is recorded in the Domesday book and has been a working farm for more than a thousand years. Today it's farmed for beef cattle, sheep and growing crops.

We took a great walk on the farmland. Poppy loves Scruffy! At one point he got lost in the hay and had to be fished out. Bit blurry photos of the pups, but aren't they cute? Then there is the stables in the courtyard.

Angela drove us along the pretty country lanes with tall hedgerows to the local beach for lunch and to explore the coast. The weather was perfect and it's just beautiful there... 60 miles of beach. And we got to visit the 13th century church where my Aunt and Uncle were married and where my Nanny is buried. We found some wildflowers and placed them there to pay our respects.  South-Hams-beach-life

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September 21, 2008

Plymouth and Cornwall

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We are going backwards here as Typepad is going strange on me. Annoying.

Anyway, the above pic is  where I was born and where my family grew up for most of my earlier life. It's the house on the right. It has been 15 years or so since I visited Plymouth. My sister Jane and I stayed with Arash and he dropped us off to get the ferry over to Cornwall to Mount Edgecumbe and we took a hike to Cawsands. I am sitting on a folly and at the Orangery. Later we took a 40-minute boat ride back to Devon... after a pint and a ploughmans's lunch... to get our sea legs in order, of course.

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September 19, 2008

Brighton

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Here are some scenes from Brighton visiting my sister Annebella, her boyfriend Paul and my niece Poppy who is now 9. Isn't she lovely? We had great weather, a wander along Brighton Pier, delicious nut roast at a local pub for Annebella's birthday celebration and there's also a pic here of Poppy winning at Tic Tac Toast!Poppy-by-door-for-web

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September 02, 2008

Enjoying the English southwest

I'm staying in Kingsbridge with my Auntie Angela, Uncle David, my cousins, and sister Annebella and niece Poppy. The weather has been great and the farm is very peaceful and beautiful. I cannot upload any photos currently, but will do so as soon as I'm back in the States in about a week.

However, since my last posting contained no photo, shock horror, here is a digital image I did for lovely Carmen. Carmen, this was part of your birthday present that you have not got around to seeing. I am planning to print one 12 x 12 and frame it and give one to your parents as well. Hope you like it.

More pics soon... have been taking TONS of photos of England and family and friends... it is so wonderful to be here.Carmen's-digital-page-for-b

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Pinal Peak

  • Willow
    These photos were taken on November 24th. The light and colors were amazing today... it's been far too long since Ralph and I have been out east exploring. I had forgotten how odd the little cities are that we drove past and how high the elevation is to Pinal Peak.

Home decor creations

  • Favoritesides
    There seems to be endless possibilites as to what to embellish... here are some items that I had a lot of fun creating. Watch this space for a set of scallop coasters in a box and triangular box, a box that is a book for photo storage and wooden frames.

Digital Layouts

  • Ruth-and-Carmen
    Here are the first of (hopefully) many more digital layouts I hope to create using Photoshop Elements 6. There is certainly a huge learning curve ahead, but now I've at least got my feet wet, it's not nearly as intimidating as I thought. Watch this space for more soon!

BOOKS - miniBOOKS

  • Pages-9-and-10
    Here are some miniBOOKS I have been making recently. I guess I got a bit bored with 12 x 12 layouts and wanted to do something a bit different.

Layouts for scrapbooking

  • Nan
    I love to scrapbook. I can't put it more plainly. It allows me the time and space to be by myself but it also gives me the mindspace to be around my family, relations and old friends. Why do I scrapbook? Because there are no boundaries to what idea you can create a page with. It seems a richer form of either a diary or journaling; it's a way of preserving a moment in it's entirety. Moments in time are nuggets, like gold, and worth keeping. Almost nothing is insignificant. Once gone, memories may or may not return. We're all aware how the intensity of a moment dims, no matter how good that moment ever was. Scrapbooking can keep that feeling alive for a long time. I love to document the simpler things in life, not necessarily just the important events. I can see how myself and others close to me in my life are growing. I can appreciate the now.

Desert Photography

  • Dove
    Here are some of the many thousands of images that I have taken of the Sonoran Desert. I love the desert so much. Anyone who really knows me knows this. I chose to live in the US southwest above anywhere else, and that has made a real difference. Not circumstance, but choice. It is inspiring to me for my art and in other areas. So many trails, so many views and such variety. It's breathtaking. Every single day, really and truly I appreciate it, whether it's small things like my little but beloved cactus container garden, or a certain light of day or something in bloom (because there's always something in bloom here)... the desert is endlessly fascinating, a source of constant awe and inspiration, and I'm so glad I have discovered it in this lifetime. Thanks for looking.

San Diego Zoo

  • Mandarin
    San Diego Zoo is an amazing place. It has to be one of the best zoos in the world, hands down. I love it there so much. I have a mental note that 2 times a year is the minimum I would want to visit. I love all the tropical plants, the vastness, the enormous variety of plant life as well as of course the huge variety of animal life. The ways of transport in the zoo are so cool: skychairs over the entire site, open-top double-decker buses, trains, etc, it is fabulous. Ralph and I have taken some of our very best photography here and there is more to come.

Phoenix Zoo

  • Giraffes_together
    I love zoos! I'm really happy to get these shots as the time before this visit, I took 150 photos and at around 4pm (an hour before closing) I discovered I had left my memory card at home and had been snapping away at nothing....eek!

Edwards Park

  • Lily
    Ralph and I went out on the atv to Edwards Park. It is beautiful remote area near Four Peaks here in Arizona. It is entirely wilderness. We did not see a soul all day. These photos were taken in May of 2006, long after Spring down in the valley. The elevation there is 6000 feet, so Spring is longer coming, hence these shots of wildflowers. This alligator juniper is charred as two summer prior, there was a large wild fire that spread through the entire area. It was quite strange and eery to see such vibrant bright wildflowers springing up amongst such black charred decay.

Daryl's Garden

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    These are some shots I took of Daryl and Merlin Flemion's lovely garden, back in 2003 or 2004 I think. I used these images and more to make a hardback book, sized at 8 x 10 with 20 double-sided pages. I made it for their 2005 Christmas present. Making it was a lot of fun and allowed me to appreciate their garden all over again. Daryl and Merlin are members of the Milwaukee Rose Society, but there are much more than just lovely roses in their garden. Each time I visit, there is something new to enjoy, photograph, and then later share.

Wisconsin Wildflowers

  • Ruth_and_daryl
    Love Wisconsin when it is lush and green and before the cold takes over. Daryl is the best person for exploring the beauty of this area. All these photos were taken in one lovely afternoon. Thanks for looking.

Sunsets

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    There are always sunsets in Arizona, or in the southwest for that matter. The skies are bigger, I mean seemingly more expansive here, I am not sure why it is, or seems that way. It's easy to take sunsets and sunrises for granted, but they are spectacular, and these images are just a few of many I have taken over the years. Hope you like them.

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