Small Miracles

Two days ago I posted that I had lost my job after 12 years. Yesterday was to be my last day.
What I did not know was that the amazing and dedicated group of women volunteers I work with and for, had rallied and launched a full scale effort to extend my tenure at least through the end of May, so I could help bring a huge project to completion.
I can't say enough about these women. I love them all and am full of wonder and gratitude that they would do this for me.

So here is a collage in tribute to all of them.

clipped wings

I lost my job yesterday...

Another Journal Page

For the digital journal pages swap that I'm in. Still haven't journaled anything, but it's fun to collect and print the pages.

Take a Word-Birdlife

A glimpse at the life of shore bird, in this case, white herons, always on the hunt...
The original photo of the tidepool, sans birds, I took a few years ago, and found again today, while viewing some discs from and older computer. The bird came from Google Images. The background wac created with the help of texture pieces by Encounter_Laura and and others at T4L.

Alphabet Inspired--L is for Lion

A Lion
Photo from Wikimedia, taken at the zoo in Antwerp.
Lots of filters used here.
The background made with 2 texture pieces from Untamed Reflections and one from Les Brumes at T4L

SPA--Illusions

A complex and thought-provoking theme this week from Kris. So many ways to interpret--optical, magical, spiritual...I do hold with the idea that life is illusion--so often we see what we want or hope to see in the world; hope that our illusion is really real; and rise up when our illusion is shattered, and "wake into another dream."

The image is Maude Fealy, an American silent screen actress. Although some of her films -- Moths (1913), The Runaway Princess (1914), Frou-Frou (1914) -- were popular enough, audiences simply failed to warm up to the actress' glacial beauty. Hhe was always more appreciated on the legitimate stage. Longtime friend Cecil B. DeMille, whose loyalty to former co-workers was legendary, employed Maude Fealy in most of his sound films, including his last, The Ten Commandments (1956). In her retirement, Fealy told an interviewer: "Actors never give up acting; it gives them up." She died in 1955. To learn more about Maude Fealy or to find images of her, follow the likk, or try Google.
http://www.answers.com/topic/maude-fealy-1#ixzz1FpOG1EnL

The background/overlay was created with pieces by Tanya at T4L and by Jerry Jonesat Shadowhouse, along with the application of filters, brushes and blending modes.
The quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of Americas Transcendentalist poets and philosophers.