Sunflowers and Photoshop Elements

The first picture is what I used to create the second picture in Photoshop Elements. I try to teach myself something new when I have a few minutes.

Landon starts school tomorrow. He will be a sophomore. Time really flew by this Summer! It's going to get to the mid 80's today....to hot! Tomorrow, we are expecting rain and minutely cooler temperatures.

Celtic Circle Earrings
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Vitrail Medium Glass Rhinestones

Monday and Sunflowers on the Mind!

The bees seem to love my sunflowers as much as I do! I am definitely going to collect the seeds from these plants for next year. Even though the flowers weren't as big as what we planted last year, I like them better as there were so many blooms. I quite counting at 40! My sons also like to eat sunflower seeds after they bake and salt them!

Listed these saphiret glass earrings in my shop.

Updated Picture of Sunflowers

They are so glorious now! We have one other plant that is in with the grapes and black berries. I had a few seeds left over and gave them to Landon to find a place. I will enjoy these while I can!
It's in the 60's today..........GREAT for walking the dogs!

Pretty Jazzy!

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I think the sunflowers are around 9-10' tall now! More have opened up since this picture was taken on Sunday. We have about 14 flowers opened up now. Every morning I go out and count and.....smile!

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More Glorious Sunflowers!

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More Sunflower Pictures

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Blooming Sunflowers!

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(¸.·´ (¸.·`*~ These opened up about a week ago from Wednesday of this week. I was out taking pictures of jewelry for my shop today. I moved my tripod over to the sunflowers and cranked it up to get close. Most of them are facing the neighbors and not our house as they follow the sun. I wasn't expecting the visitor that you see in my pics. He was moving around so not so good focus on the bee. I was just about a foot away! I didn't have time to make any adjustments to my camera so this is what I got! More sunflower pics coming this week!~*´¨)¸.·´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨)

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Bird Dog Jazzy - Not!

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Well I knew it was going to rain and it did! The sunflowers really shot over the top of the fence in the last couple of days. I see flowers forming! I was outside taking pictures of my jewelry and looked over and laughed.....Jazzy was definitely pointing at something!

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Sunflowers are still growing!

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Well, the sunflowers are above the fence posts now. I can't wait until they bloom! So pretty! We had them here last year and they looked incredible. Last night we harvested three ripe tomatoes from the garden and had our first BLT sandwiches. They were delicious! We have been having salads using the lettuce from the garden. Landon also picked a hot pepper and sampled it. It was extremely hot! I prefer the red sweet peppers myself. It thundered for hours in the evening yesterday but all that we got were a few sprinkles. Just five minutes from my house, my husband sad it was pouring buckets!

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Before I started designing brass and glass jewelry, I collected and sold lots of vintage/estate jewelry. I have opened the jewelry boxes up and I am starting to part with some of my favorites.

Sunflowers are Growing!

In the background of this picture you can see some of our sunflowers. My husband built little boxes at the bottom of five of the fence posts last year. You can only see three in this picture. They grew a little bit higher than the post last year and were just incredibly beautiful! It rained a little bit this morning so that should help. The doggies and I had to delay our walk until about 9:00 a.m. Also in the picture is Mo-Jo. He finally got the stick away from Jazzy.

Last night, the kitchen sink got backed up so my handy husband had to go downstairs and take the pipes apart and snake them out.......messy job! The sink is fixed now and the bathroom is pretty much done.....just a few minor things.

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Listed these pretties in my shop today.