Flowers: Best Images 2013

I grew all the flowers photographed here except for the little impatients in the last image.

The images are in no particular order but represent my favorites for the year.

Happy New Year

Olive

Olive Out Best Images 2013

From Vintage Toys post in May here.

I thought I posted this image in Southern Farm House but you can find a similar one here.

I bought a new computer in the spring and locating my images is building my character. 

Enough said.

Wire Cloche {gilded shells} here.

By the way our island has been viewed more than any other topic 

I have written about or photographed here on Olive Out.

The  mailbox image is one of my favorites indeed and tugs at my heart. 

It is from Tied To A Place here.

The island again. I almost did not buy this rack, whatever it is, but it works. 

See it here in Kitchen Island With Vintage Dish Rack.

The gallery wall in it's early stages. It has expanded. 

Find it in Gallery Wall here.

Ridge Antiques has become a huge part of my life thanks to my dear friend Beth. 

I love this stack of crates in Bob's booth read Primitives and More here.

Friendly Village China In A Toolbox here.

Blogging has been tougher for me this year than any other but I am not stopping. 

I love each of my readers and all my blog brings to me in inspiration and encouragement.

Next post will be my 2013 flower images.

Please read my post sponsored by Kaplan and Blogher here.  

Spend "thirty minutes" with me in the center I worked in as an R.N.

joy and peace

Olive

Favorite Garden Photos 2012

Bee In Flight

Succulents and Sedums

Black Eyed Susan With Wee Spider

I am still learning my new camera and do better with outside shots by far.

 Inside shots exasperate me still.

joy and peace

Olive

Spontaneity

The spontaneity of Instagram photos cannot be resisted by me.

Snap the image.

 Hit the quick edit (or not) and share it. 

No fussing like I do over this blog.

Shelley Puppy watching his daddy mow the lawn. 

This shot is my wallpaper for my smart phone.

One person I follow, on Instagram, is now on holiday in Thailand. 

She is sharing the loveliest tropical beach images.

 It is likely I will never see Thailand but she is taking me there

 pebble by pebble, with a coconut thrown in every day.

 Thanks to those bloggers who started following me on Instagram.

Also to my new followers here on Olive Out.

Happy Friday My Darling Friends

Olive

Olive Bucket Images Not Easy For Olive

The owner of the consignment store where I bought the aqua chest said I could not take photos with my Rebel camera. Her reason was she has two bloggers with booths there. I believe she lacks understanding of the generosity of bloggers. It felt like the time the man got mad at me for taking a picture of eggplants at the farmers market. When I decided to buy the aqua chest the booth owner said I could take photos with my iPhone. 

Glory be.

The olive bucket. 

I want it but it is not priced for me. 

I had no idea how large they are. 

If I cannot have it, I at least wanted photos of it.

This display was in a hallway and particularly soft and pretty with the different shades of green.

This is the four drawer aqua chest we put in our bedroom. 

I have bought a couple of funeral baskets from this vendor before. 

I like her style.

You can see the aqua chest in the previous post in our dark cave of a room.

Linking@Tabletop Tuesday

Tweak It Tuesday

Wow Us Wednesday's

joy and peace

Olive

`field of sunflowers`

Don't you love the sunflower?

 I do.

They can be used in fall and summer decor. 

They feed bees, birds, and us.

What's not to love about these beauties?

Many farmers plant them here in Georgia. 

The heat is getting to these and they are now droopy.

It was delightful taking photos in this large field of sunflowers. 

I was good and did not take any.
Can you imagine the phone call?
 "Joe, I have been arrested for stealing sunflowers."
"What?"
"Yes, I said sunflowers from a field."
"Can't you get some of those at Publix or Kroger?"


(y'all know I would never steal)
♣♣♣

This should be an auto-post while I am on a short

 two day girlie vacation with my friend Fancy. 

I hope my iPhone's camera works well.

joy and peace

Olive

A Conversation And Pro Pics Are Here

CC, our darling daughter says " Mom you are now half a century old."

I reply "Why thanks I had not thought of my age in quite that way."

CC further states, "That's five decades."

We still let her eat supper with us.

Today I am fifty and we had some professional images made recently with that in view.

I am standing on hundreds of broken liquor bottles in an abandoned bank beside a liquor store. Apparently our small town has lots of drinkers.

My hips were not supposed to appear in any images but that flew out the alley as you see. 

The puppy is so much bigger now. 

We will be able to look back and say he really was tiny once upon a time.

All images by my dear friend Shelia at Shelia Godfrey Photography

Thank You Shelia. 

We had so much fun taking these images with you.

joy and peace

Olive

Chippy White Chair With Edits

Fiddling with the white chippy chair and Photoscape.

I used the Refection Filter and framed it in a too dark red. 

 Playing and learning.

Nothing fancy here.

I have worked out the watermark, Thank God.

I am two cups of coffee away from recalling what filter I used here. Dang.
By the way I found this funeral pot/wreath at an estate sale and am loving it.
I now have four.
The others are wicker.
Joe rolls his eyes at them.
He'll be fine.

This has an antique Filter on it (#5 I think).

 Claudia from Mockingbird Hill Cottage told me that Photoscape is not available for Mac users.
That is a definite negative as I will be buying a Mac next time.
I am still planning on checking out the BeFunky editing program.
I have not had time yet as sun and 72 degree weather draws me to the flower garden.
My muscles are sore today but I am fine and thank you all for your comments yesterday.

Please go visit Claudia and The Frugal Five (sounds like a cool gang) as they continue their Thrifty Living Series today.


may joy and peace surround you
Olive

Muffins and Thank You

All of you get a virtual muffin this morning.

 

 

For listening to me "carry on" yesterday. 

Thank you.

Double chocolate muffins for all even if they are rather short...oops.

I would send each of you an ivy if it were possible. 

I have been transplanting and rooting ivy like a fiend.

By the way all these images were edited in Photoscape and it is getting easier and it does have many features that are wonderful. I watched their tutorial last night and it is quite helpful. I have managed to watermark these images. Now I must learn to use the Batch Editor. That is my next goal.

I still have no access to my e-mail and am trying not to think about it.

may joy and peace surround you

Olive

Dried Roses and Monday Challenges

Monday challenged I have been.

My Yahoo mail will not open. Period. It insists I change the resolution which I have done and it still will not open my e-mail. I am going to stab myself in the eye.

I have been trying various photo editing programs and that was elevating my blood pressure several mm of mercury. Photoscape has some cool features but I find it difficult to use. Stabbing the other other eye.

Picnik closing is very very bad.

Then while attempting to get these images into a new post here on Blogger my task bar for Olive Out stops working.  Okay, GAME OVER, I said to myself and shut down the computer and went outside and cut grass with my push mower and potted some variegated ivy. Outside work clears my head and helps me solve problems and prevents self stabbing.

I returned to the computer and restored it to six days ago thereby deleting any programs I had installed and any virus that tagged along.

It worked. 

Woot.

The dried roses above were given to me by my hairstylist, friend, and owner of the shop featured on the last post. She was given the roses from a client and I said I would love to dry them and here they are. I strip all the leaves and secure the roses in a bundle with a rubber band then use string to hang them upside down in a cool dry room, Joe's shop in this case.

Thanks bunches Judy.

Linking with: Table Top Tuesday

may joy and peace surround you

Olive