Why All The Black n White?

Tuesday morning, having dumped photos from Nikon to Desktop, I stood with camera in hand staring out the living room window at the dead grapefruit tree.

 Suddenly, thanks to Pam and Myra and their black and white photos, I decided to set the Nikon on black and white, and take photos of the dead tree.  I took 2 in color to show you what I saw.

I knew when I started the sun was blinding and at the wrong angle to get the tree properly.  Did it anyway.  This grapefruit tree is 33 years old, Bob grew it from a seed from a pink grapefruit. He found the seed while eating the fruit at work, it had a sprout on it. He planted it in a cup, then a bucket in the yard of our home in Saint Petersburg. When we moved he planted it in   this spot and my uncle said it would never have fruit. It did! and all the neighbors Loved Them as did we. It died last year due to drought and some kind of leaf rot, that took it and 2 hibiscus.

It ended with my heart breaking. I turned from the tree to go inside, and standing behind the fence was my sweet almost blind, almost deaf Jake. He was ON GUARD, Staring at me, like is that something I should bark at?

I started to wave at him and say It's Mommy, Jake over and over. He could not hear me so I walked closed to the gate and said I'TS MOMMY JAKE,think MegaPhone Loud.. so loud the neighbors may have popped out to see what was going on.

HE came to the fence smiling at me, and turned his head away, looking embarrassed because he did not know me.... Bob was in the pool and when I went through the house Jake was trying to get in side to find out if I was in the house. Bob said when I opened the door. What's wrong with Jake... and when I told him we were heart broken together.

Thus began my quest for black n white photos... Yesterday's post was out of order. More to come and I promise I will keep the words MINIMAL... 👀👄

Shadow Shot Susan Sunday- Black n White

This is the final Susan, she is about to burst forth into color, The Last Bud... what better than black n white to show her beauty.  These photos were shot with black n white, and edited with PicMonkey using Dodge, Burn and Sharpen..

I like my puns intended, and I intended to have a few puns. 

Remember    Not everything is              and White!                    

Today is the day! Be Free! Things CAN Change!

Through The Looking Glass

I am not Totally VAIN and have not fallen through my looking glass into Wonder-if-she's-crazy Land.

The story is, I purchased another 2 fancy pants, better known as jeggins, the $3.88 cents kind you might remember.

Three of my 6 new leggings have bright pink in them. I have searched for earrings with PINK, not to be found EXCEPT in lengths of 3 to 4 inches... I have no neck. LONG will not WORK.

I like mine shorter. I found the big 4 inch earings on the left block above.

I Came home and De-constructed them, removing the short pink thingy and customizing to my liking. NO, the long ones did not come with two hooks. I forgot to take a photo of the BEFORE, thus the two hook photo.

The rest of the Story is.... While trying to get a decent shot of the earrings I may have gotten carried away and takes 10 or so selfies.

The photos went from Tablet to Google Photos and auto created a collage.. I did not like it, and while downloading the photos to create this collage in PicMonkey I ACCIDENTLY clicked on something that made an animated gif, not of me but of Black Eyed Susan.

Fret NOT... Animate Susan is coming soon to a blog near you...  You know I love NEW STUFF... I found the Gif Thingy in Google Photos and …………………………… That's All Folks