Sneffels

Nearly 13 years ago, I designed one of my favorite snowflakes, Mount Sneffels.

I recently had to make a white version of the flake for my 2024 digital snowflake temperature quilt. I can't believe I hadn't made a white one before. Other than the rock covering...

I enjoyed revisiting the pattern. I still love this snowflake.

A white version provided the opportunity to play in Photoshop, of course. This is such a great flake!

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Howlin' at the Moon

I've been able to get Lizard out on his bike again, now that the weather is a bit warmer and we've had yet another (successful) medication adjustment. It is so heavenly to be able to ride with him again! We can't do the miles we used to do, but even short rides are just the best way to spend time together.

One of our goals this year is to work up to riding all the way around a nearby reservoir. I think that's about 14 to 15 miles. Lizard is up to 8 miles, now, and that's just asbolutely huge for him.

During a recent ride, the meadowlarks were serenading us all along the bike path. I kept trying to get a photo of one singing with the half-moon in the background, but the birds would fly away.

I finally was able to get close enough to one and get it positioned properly, with the moon in the background, but there were branches in the way. I had to zoom in so much, the moon looked like a cloud.

So I shot the bird, then shot the moon, then photoshopped when I got home. I do a MUCH better job of creating digital art than AI!!!

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#GiveThanks

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Digital Piecing

I absolutely love devoting time to playing with photos on my smartphone. I can easily manipulate photos on my phone that would take me hours or even days to complete on my computer with Photoshop. I love the apps that effortlessly build montages. This is such a great way to pass the time on the daily commuter train if I can't crochet.

This is an old-fashioned montage manually created via Photoshop on my laptop, one image at a time. Kind of like electronic quilting. Took probably half an hour, with all the resizing required.


Here are some oldies but goodies done manually on the laptop, each requiring perhaps an hour to a week to create.










Photoshop on the laptop has plugins and filters that speed up the montage process, but I still create or manipulate the images for the montage, which can be time-consuming. (That's not a complaint.)






These are some of my early iPhone creations (I have four different photo editing apps on my phone), before I learned how to do fancy. Each took seconds. The time bandit of the whole process is selecting photos. But then just two little clicks, and voila!














By my third smartphone, I was learning ways to make my montages even better. Using one of my photos as the background really creates a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, which, of course, is the ultimate goal.














The photo apps have built-in text, frames, filters and backgrounds of their own. I have fun with these, too.










Of course, there are many ways to have humorous fun, as well...






When I first discovered I could use backgrounds, I bought a couple of cheap packages, less than $2 each, knowing my grandkids might go crazy for a "unicorn glitter" background.


When my fleeting office rainbow began appearing again this year, I realized I don't have to buy any more backgrounds at all, ever. I can make my own!

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