Izzi Thoughts ...

Woo Hoo ... I is in Snow Heavens :)

 

But my Moms is sayins ... Boo Hoo, I is nots! ... Howcomes, Mom? :(

Homeless Veterans: Stand Down

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” 
—John F. Kennedy

So on this Veterans Day, as we say our thanks to those who have secured our freedoms at their own expense ...

        We Need To Do More ... 

Mandarin Orange Monday

 

 

When I look out my window this is what I see ... How could one not take a picture.  AND ... it's orange.  I don't even have to orangify it for MOM :)


But you know I will ...

and then a little more using posterize and enhance color on PSE ...

And, here we go ... add a texture with color and use the mask/brush ...

Oops ... what's this?  This is a picture of a quilt that I took at the quilt show at the Botanical Gardens ... Beautiful, right? ( I have to admit I intensified the colors some :)

Ah oh ... they collided ...

They are morphing ...

I'm Done ... :)

Happy MOM Everyone ...

Weekend Reflections

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Feline Friday

Feline Friday #72

 

What?

Smile It's Friday

Skunked ...

Oh Boys, Badger Boo, I gots a story to tells you this week.  You will be smilings, but I sure wasn't at the times.

It was nites time and I was going outs for my last potty walks.  I was walking along mindings my  business when I decided to takes a sniff in the bushes ...
Wows ...  I was hits with somethings in my face, my eyes, nose and mouth was burnings and I was overwhelms with an awful smells.  Then my Moms grabs me and whips me intos the house and throws me in the showers, yellings at my Dads that I has been Skunked.

 Help! Whats Skunked? I thoughts to myself, knowings that whatsever it was it had a big stinks to its.   I got scrubbed with soaps all overs and then

agains with tomatos juice which has a stinks to it too.  I thinks my Moms was tryings to hide my stinks with another stinks ... but it didn't works.  I still smelled like skunks the next day and I had a agilitys trial.   Peoples were holdings their nose when I cames by ... embarrassing!  So, I decides to roll in some good smelling dogs poop to makes me smells better ( I won'ts tell you whats my Moms said to me when I dids that ... if you gets my gist).  But it worked ... the rests of the day I smelled like dogs poop and I liked that smells until I gots homes and my Moms threw me ins the showers again.  This times she had some fancy dancy formulas to use on my skunks smell.  It sort of worked, but (don't tells my Moms) I can still smells skunks on mes.

I is still havings bad dreams about it, but my Moms is laughings when she tells the storys, so I thoughts it would probably bes a goods story for Smile It's Fridays.  Hopes you has a better weeks than me, Badger Boos :) Maybe we can smiles on this Friday :)

Wild Bird Wednesday

 

 

This is a hard time of the year to come across birds to take pictures of.  This little character will be here year round.  It is a juvenile Ring-Billed Gull.  I spotted him loitering in the McDonalds  parking lot, clearly hoping for a handout ... french fries, no doubt.  The juveniles are very pretty ... their mottling is brown against the white background with the black on their tail feathers and the tip of their beaks. 

 

 

 

 

This pair of Sandhill Cranes is probably long gone.  We spotted them in a yard not far from our house about two weeks ago. 

 

 

 I have seen groups of Sandhills flying overhead on their migration to warmer climates for several weeks. To me it seems late but strangely we also have Great Blue Herons on the lake.  Hopefully they will all be gone  soon because they certainly won't be able to survive our winters.  

 

I plan is to be able to get out and find some more interesting birds that will be here for the winter ... Meanwhile, hope the birding is good in your neck of the woods :)

 

Happy WBW!