The Hobie Cat Sails Again

According to the Hobie website there are over 100,000 of these sailboats around the world dating back to 1967.   This one is Warren's;  Wayne has one also.   Tristan and Piper went out there with their Dad....Dacia and I stayed ashore to take care of the dogs.  As always,  I used elements from Anna Aspnes for the layout!

   

A Favorite Lily

This lily is in one of the pots Joni brought from Iowa.  It seems to like Kansas heat.  That's good because it has been in the 100 degree range for several days.  The lily is doing fine so far.  I did venture out to water the pots a couple of days ago.  I have sweet potato vines to plant but I'm waiting for the heat wave to go away!

Bicycle Ride

There were 240 riders registered for this ride...don't know how many showed up.  Joni,  Warren and Tristan came to the lake and stayed overnight on the 27th...Dacia and Piper cooked dinner for all of us! The background in this layout is a picture of the historic Spring Hill Ranch, in the Tall Grass National Preserve,  not far from Strong City.  I used Anna Aspnes Template 55.

Stormy April 2012

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from Kahola Lake.  We were fortunate to have missed the severe storms;  there were a few close calls!   This was made with Anna Aspnes' Color Block template.

Charles Griffith, World War II

I'm glad I could find a few of my Dad's pictures from World War Two.  Here they are.   He was a corporal in the Army Signal Corps. He lived in Wichita after he was discharged....some time in the early 1940s. 

Greenup Time

It has rained slowly and steadily all day and the lake is filling up again. I've gone back to my Canon S3 IS for pictures around home. I hope to learn more about it this time!  Once again I used elements from Anna Aspnes to put this page together.

Joni came to Kansas for a visit...bringing her camera, of course! These are her pictures and the layout was put together using an Anna Aspnes kit "Crazy Life".

The first day of February

The first day of February was just right for picture taking!   Here are my favorites,  put into photo pockets from a kit made by Joanne Brisebois.

Pictures from Kansas, Indiana, and Iowa!

Some of these pictures were taken by Joni and some are mine.  I used Anna Aspnes' LoopDaLoop Template One.  I bought that template a couple of years ago and just recently realized that I knew what to do with it in Photoshop!   Yippee!

January was wonderful!

We had unusually nice weather!  One day I captured the thermometer reading....I'm sure there were days warmer than that, too!   I took a liking to the photo pockets made by Traci Reed.  Here's my experiment with them.   It was fun...I will do some more!

More Christmas Pictures

Here are the rest of the pictures I took while at Warren's house!  This layout was made using Anna Aspnes' kits,  as was the one I posted a few days ago.

Christmas with Warren and family

The weather was really nice Christmas Day.  It was Sunday so I drove to Madison and waited for them to get home from church.  Dacia's parents were there also.  We opened gifts and Dacia served a delicious casserole afterwards.    I came back home before dark....it's amazing how short the daylight hours are that time of year!  I had forgotten.   Retired people don't have to think about such things! 

A Collage of pictures from the 70s and 80s

Years ago we had a real life collage hanging on the wall.   Some of these pictures were in that one.  The template I used here is by One Little Bird.   There were many frames to fill so I gave it a try using scanned pictures from my files.  It's quite a challenge to take this many assorted pictures and try to restore them all more or less equally!   Today I decided enough was enough so here is my finished product!

Something Different

I have never made anything from Sussie M's kits so today I made up my mind to try one.   This was called Sweet November.   When I was almost finished I decided to turn it into a Thanksgiving Card of sorts!   I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting it together!

To Warren's home for the evening

Warren and family had been in Wichita for the day so we met them in Madison for dinner.  The Madison team did well at the Robotics competition.   Tristan has been involved in that for several years.  Piper is now going to Lawrence each week for a girls choir of some sort.  I find it hard to keep up with what those two are doing, of course!  You'll see our first hint of snow in some of these pictures.....November 16....it was pretty;  fluffy gentle flakes that didn't stay around long enough to accumulate.   Just a hint of what's to come later on! The background here is by Leslie Nitschke and the instamatic frames are from Katie Pertiet.

A Visit from Joni

It was wonderful to have company for the weekend!  Joni brought a truckload of planters,  mostly blue ones, for me to store for the winter.  She planted some tulips,  which I have not had in the garden in all these years!  The pump is now out of the lake for the winter...that's a good thing.  I had been reluctant to walk out there; the walkway tips just enough to make me uneasy,  and it seems like a long ways down to the water!  I have had an "atomic clock" for years which I couldn't get set right and had given up on.   It took Joni no time at all to fix that problem...!  These instamatic frames are by Katie Pertiet;  the background is by Elisa Salazar.

Pictures from November 15

Making a layout using a wire frame is one of the things I've been wanting to do so here it is!  The frame is by Katie Pertiet.  These areas in the garden are getting snowed on today....I must say I enjoyed being out there in those big fluffy flakes!   It's supposed to be over soon and warm weather will come back for the rest of the week.   I wonder...

As The Eagle Flies...

Joni got several pictures of this young bald eagle before he took off towards the west end of the lake. He sat still for quite a long time but a vehicle came along and that was more than he could stand!  For this page I used Anna's Artsy Layered Template #33.

Deer Family

Joni and I went on a drive while she was here.  She spotted these deer at the west end of the lake.  This is the way we prefer to hunt!   Anna's Fall Sampler #1 was just what I needed to put them on display!   I'm still using the Bamboo tablet and liking it better each day!

Indoor Plants

These pots were brought to me by Joni to keep in the house this winter....they are giving me a lot of pleasure!  This is the first time I've made a layout using a Wacom Bamboo tablet.....I love it!   I had tried to use it before and for some reason it wouldn't work.  I put it away for weeks and just recently decided to give it another chance.....I must have been doing something wrong before because it certainly gave me no problems today!  The kit I used is by Anna Aspnes for a pen scrappers group.