dandelion

Okay guys, this post is going to give you a delightful dose of SPRING! I LOVE SPRING! Ahem. Take a deep breath and smell the fresh spring air…

First off we have a humble dandelion. But have you ever noticed how beautiful they really are? The dandelion has such a sunny, fluffy bloom, and look at those exquisite little curlicues peppering the surface of the flower!

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Next up we have some more pretty weeds – with BOKEH in the background! I love bokeh. ♥ I think this is corn speedwell.

I really like these pictures! They’re so… springy! 😀

Now I’ll take a break from flowers. How about a landscape instead?

I love this next picture! (I love lots of things in this post, don’t I? XD Spring, bokeh, pictures…)

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Some fresh new spring oat starts…

There was some perfectly oozy mud that we just had to squish in, and after our walk, my friend and I went back. I made a little mud-bird from sticks, bark, and of course, mud. 🙂 Isn’t she cute? She is a bit dirty though. *Sigh* I’m afraid that’s her fate. XD Sometime I should go back and see if she’s still there.

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This raccoon must have liked the mud too. Doesn’t his little handprint look like human handprint? It especially does in this picture because you can’t see how small it is.

And to finish it off, here are some Lily the rabbit pictures. SQUEEE! She’s so fat and plush! … Perhaps a bit too fat and plush. XD But I love you anyway, dearest Lily.

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Okay, guys. You are going to die from a cuteness attack when you see this next picture. Lily and a calf are making friends! (Well, at least the calf is. Lily… maybe not so much. XD Look at the expression on her face!)

I hope these pictures put an extra spring in your step. 🙂 Have a lovely day! ♥

***Allison***

I ♥ PicMonkey! PicMonkey is a really fun, free, picture-editing website. I’ve been playing around on it lately, and I thought I’d show you some of the results.

I made this with one of my dandelion pictures, this using this tutorial, and I also added a border.

This is another edited dandelion photo, which I edited to look like night.

I really had fun with a certain sunset picture I took. A few weeks ago there was a pretty sunset, and I got a rather washed-out phot for some reason, which I saved for precisely this kind of thing. If you put a texture over a white spot in your photo, the results are amazing! This is the picture I used to make the edits. Blah right? But then…

These are the edits!

I especially really like the top one, but I think the bottom one is neat because it looks like the mountains are an underwater world beneath the surface of an ocean. 🙂 I might make a story prompt post sometime with some of my edits.

This is an edit of my dad’s eye. The picture looks basically the same, I just added a filter. My dad thinks his eye looks really old in that picture, which I guess it kind of does, but I think it looks beautiful – I love the starburst of colors in his iris!

And here is just a funny one to end with. 😀 Cute lil’ Maggie!

Tee-hee! Isn’t she adorable?

Which edit was your favorite? Sometime I want to do a contest where I post, maybe three pictures, and then people edit them on PicMonkey and see who wins the best edit of each photo! But I’ll wait till WordCrafters is over. Oh, my sister is actually doing a neat photography challenge right now that I can’t wait to do! Click here to see it.

***Allison***