Keeps Gettin' Better

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For some people it's time for lots of reflection and changes in life. Many times in life we  go through a lot of pain and come out on the other side to know that the change becomes a new kind of adventure.  Here's to the beginning of freedom and remembering exactly who you are.

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968

Did I Fool Ya?

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Here's another photo from my Getty adventure.  I found these ladies in the garden area.  Sometimes I just marvel at the creativity of artists!  Wow, such a thing to behold.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. 

Tom Stoppard

We Believe In Something Unusual

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I always love going to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.  This time I took the architecture tour (free).  This is one of the best and most economical places to visit in LA.  It costs $15.00 to park and everything else is free, except food, of course.  It's a wonderful way to spend the day.  Hopefully, by tomorrow I can begin just posting one photo a day.  I'm sure that I'll have many more photos to post from this day.

How does one measure the success of a museum? 

Paul Getty

I'm Glad I'm a Girl

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When I was in Santa Monica on a walk, I looked over and saw this beautiful little girl looking like a GAP advertisement just waiting to be made.  Her caretaker gave me permission and the little one was very cooperative.  Talk about a  cherubic face; a photographer's dream.   I decided to turn one of them into a pastel sketch in Photoshop.

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

Ashley  Smith quotes

The Best Day

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Just to show everyone that I haven't been slacking, I'm posting 10 photographs today. These are part of a day spent in Laguna Beach with my family.  I have a Photoshop piece in the mix also.  

Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,

a gentle breath of heaven

fills my soul with delight...

Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven

Love's Proof

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Wow, I had the greatest photo shoot with Leone Ray, a beautiful little boy with the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen!  Since then I've pretty much been on vacation, so I'll post as many pictures as days I've missed.  Some days are meant for making pictures, and some days are made for posting them!  Here we go!

“Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them”

Owen Meredith quotes (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton. British diplomat, viceroy of India and poet, 1831-1891

Of All The Gin Joints In All The World

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This will probably be the last of my deserted desert photos for a while.  I believe the building was deserted but I really couldn't tell for sure.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. ”Bruce Barton quotes (American Congressman, 1886-1967