Ramblings...

A few weeks ago I had an artists contact me and ask to use the above photo for a rendering as he called it...he does pin and ink. I felt honored that anyone would want to use one of mine. My thoughts on this are that if he was there he could see it for himself...it isn't as if he is claiming the photo as his own.

Another thing....does anyone do Pinterest? I don't really participate/have not joined it, but every now and then will go and type in quilts to see what everyone has pinned. Participants find pictures of things they like and 'pin' it to their wall...not sure if that is what they call it since I did not join. Anyway, I had not thought of my photos being pinned till I saw it mentioned on another blog.

All you have to do is type http://pinterest.com/source/yourblogname.blogspot.com/
in the browser window, hit enter and you will find whether any of your photos have been pinned. When I typed in http://pinterest.com/source/rose-treadway.blogspot.com/, which is my Time Stand Still blog, I found that a few barns had been pinned.

I have mixed feelings about it, but it does give a link back to your blog, and they are not claiming them as their own...they are just saying they like them...so again, a compliment in a way. I have been checking it out, and the way it gives the link back is sort of quirky. The first link it gives results in a page that says the Page Is Not Found, but on that error page is the correct link.

Anyway, I wondered if anyone else had thoughts on either one? I really don't mind that someone uses my photos as a basis for a painting or a drawing, and as long as there is a link back to my blog I don't really see any harm in people pinning my photos on Pinterest.

Not very good, but.....

This is not a very good photo quality wise...but considering that it really was almost dark, that I had my ISO set as high as it would go which is 1600 in my case...and had my lens all the way out to 300 which is surely not enough...and only had my shutter speed at 1/125....I consider it a pretty lucky shot not to be any worse.

There were 3 or 4 of these short-eared owls flying around...the other two were pretty far away. I had seen them earlier...don't know where they were by the time I eased on down the road and came to this one. You can see more pictures of them I have taken at the strip pits here and here. Until I started seeing these short-eared owls out there, I can only remember seeing an owl two or three times in my life.
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Spring seems to really have sprung around here...it has been so warm around here. I have been in short sleeves all day long. Still been busy with 'other stuff' and a phone call or two I had to make. Got some info I needed.

And I just opened another jar of home-canned tomato juice. There is just nothing like it. I really hope my tomatoes do good this year till I can can some more. I am thinking about putting out a few more plants on the south side of our house till I will for sure have enough. I guess I will wait till planting time comes before I make a final decision about that.

I know I want more Brandywines...my best friend/sister-in-law suggested them to me 4 or 5 years ago...I think one year I could not find any, the first year I raised them, I loved them...they have that good old tomato flavor and texture....then I raised them and either weather or heat or something, none of my tomatoes tasted so good that year, then I planted some again last year and oh, they are just heavenly. So it is worth the risk to plant them.

I also picked up 4 more Asiatic Lily bulbs and need to get those planted. I could go wild with flowers....and I am hoping I have a bunch of volunteer sunflowers sprout up around the bird feeder again this year. I will be able to take better care of them.

Well, I am just sitting here dreaming of spring...so I will leave you with another favorite song I happened across a few years ago..its called 'You Plant Your Fields.'
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Good Times....

Last week Sarah did not babysit Baby J....so this was the first morn that Lo had seen him in a few days. I think you can tell how she feels about him by just looking at the photo above! I think it just made her day when she got up and saw him this morn. She loves other kids so much.
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I have had other things on my mind the past few days, and by the time I sit down at night to really sit, I have been too tired to think about a real blog post. My mind will be whirling with a zillion thoughts going through...not sure if I am back to blogging her normally or not...I am just going to take it one day at a time.

I have not got to work any more on my kitchen...got side-tracked with that but hopefully will get back to it in a few days. I really would like to have it everything gone through in there. Just with the bottom cabinets and the one upper cabinet I have done, it done looks a whole lot better.

After I get them done, I really need to get down in the basement and go through some totes and dispose of stuff from them. I know that I probably have time, but I hate to think of what a job my girls would have if something happened to me. It will be bad enough the best I can do.

I still have not been doing any sewing to speak of...need to settle down and sew the blocks together from the Civil War repro fabrics...
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I don't know about where you are, but here was such a beautiful day. Windy. But warm wind, Hoping that we have a few more dry days.