Thursday Challenge: Youth
Thursday Challenge theme this week is “YOUTH” (Young, Energetic, Optimistic, Children, Baby, Education,…).
photography
Red Train of Allaire
We will really have to go somewhere else in New Jersey soon, because I keep showing you images from our wonderful trip to Allaire State Park (if you click on that link, you’ll see all my posts on Allaire). There is a fun train ride called the Pine Creek Railroad at Allaire, and I had fun using the Live Trace tool in Illustrator to come up with the above image. I used Photoshop to get the train conductor’s face to look not posterized, by putting the photo under the Live Trace image and erasing the Live Trace layer on his face.
Another version: this one shows more color and detail, especially of the foliage behind the train.
And here’s the caboose at the train’s end, turning the corner.
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Today’s Flowers: Marigold Studies
The happiest flowers in my garden in this cool autumn are the marigolds. We also have mums, white alyssum, snapdragons, rudbeckia and a solitary pink rose. The last of the summer impatiens died this past week.
I saw a neighbor had red and pink carnations that were still showing color.
If you take the dried up marigold buds, open them to reveal the seeds, then sprinkle them in your yard, next spring you will have a renewed treat.
For more flowers, visit:
Reflections in Pond at Allaire Historical Village
For more weekend reflections hosted by James of Newtown Daily Photo, visit:
Review with Carpenter Sign
On My Blog
Elsewhere in the Blogosphere
- Mother in Israel talks about L**E (and no, that is not the end of a Beatles song as in “All You Need is …”)
- How to Make a Sourdough Starter is featured on Cooking Manager. If/when I do this, I will take photos…
- Mimi has been doodling around with sourdough.
- Ilana-Davita talks about attempts at going greener.
- Mrs. S. thanks the nursery school teachers. For teaching kids about white wagtails. And a little more.
- There was an NYC Blogger Meet this past week. I wonder how it went…
- On my Tech Blog, I’m talking about Research via Twitter: hashtags and email marketing services.
I am planning to do another one of those “What Do You See” posts this weekend. And I may participate in the Weekend Reflections meme.
Live Trace: Tomatoes at Market
I decided to play a bit with the Live Trace tool in Illustrator and came up with this version of one of my photos of the Highland Park Farmer’s Market. I want an illustration for my upcoming soup post, though this one won’t be it. But the tool has potential for other projects.
For more on the Live Trace tool, see this Illustrator tutorial.
Allaire Workshop in Sepia
The sign at bottom reads:
“Ten Digits When We Start Ten Digits When We Depart”
For more sepia scenes, visit:
Review with Autumn Leaves
On My Blog
Famous Journeys – Thanks to all who participated.
Elsewhere in the Blogosphere
- Some fall foliage favorites: Ellie Vellie, EG Wow!, Rambling Woods, Carletta
- Can someone remind me to put this “sukkah decoration” in JPIX, the Jewish Photobloggers Blog Carnival?
- And I’ve started to put up some posts on my new tech blog, such as this one on 6 Ways to Learn jQuery. Please send your technically-oriented or small business minded friends (or yourself, if you wish to be) to my posts. In general, I’m looking for topic ideas for that blog. I tend to be a perfectionist about what I post, so you may not see me posting often in the beginning, but I’m hoping inspiration will allow me to post at least once a week.
Thursday Challenge: Cloths
At Cold Spring Historic Village in Cape May, New Jersey, you can watch women spin wool and weave cloth.
This week’s Thursday Challenge theme is CLOTHS (Colorful, Unusually, Fashionable, Komonos, Sari, Suits,…).
Red Murals at Historic Village
It’s fun to revisit one’s summer vacation when autumn is in full swing. Here are murals from a house in Historic Cold Spring Village in Cape May, New Jersey.
The murals were not painted in the 18th or 19th centuries, the periods the village is supposed to represent, but in the 1990’s by an artist who decided to depict what she thought life was like during those periods.
Maybe this is supposed to be the mural painter, teleported back in time? The village is fun and friendly, though our visit did have its anachronistic moments, like when the tour guide’s cell phone rang when she was explaining the layout of the old schoolhouse.
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