The Story of My Life

There is a cold snap in the air this morning.   Well, cold by Alabama standards.   I think it may be 65 degrees! One of my favorite travel spots so far will show you a cold snap, An honest to goodness COLD SNAP.   When I awoke one morning in Lake City, Colorado.   It was -3.  Yes,  Alabama friends.   -3 degrees Fahrenheit. Did you even know that that was meteorologically possible? Furthermore, some places I went had 203 total inches of snow for the season. We went outdoors- all day . And did not die. Folks told me that it did not "feel" that cold in Colorado before I went and I thought they were just crazy, but I am afraid there was a whole bunch of truth to that.  I was told it had something to do with humidity and barometric pressure.  There's a lot more sunshine, which reflects off all the snow and the air is much drier- so the cold temperatures are not as bone chilling as they are in a more humi...

  Congratulations Helena Middle School! For a big win over John Carroll last night. I am a photographer for the HMS Football team along with 3 other parent volunteers. We have a smugmug site for parents to purchase pictures of the team as a fundraiser. If you are a family member of a player, you can view and purchase our awesome pictures. It is password protected, so email me for details if you would like to order PANTHER pics!  

I have been wanting to create a wall collage, but wanted to make it inexpensive and easily changed.   I wanted to make it my travel photos. I picked 9 photos, which  was NOT an easy task considering my Iphoto library is massive. I used Photoshop CS 5 to create 10X10 images. I did a mock wall in Photoshop of all the images, so I could get a feel for the total look. I used a water theme in the center squares and sepia architecture in the corner for some OCD pattern/artistic flare of course.  I sent them to Costco 1 hour lab only because I was home alone and wanted instant gratification and they do square sizes. Of course ordering from, Mpix Millers or Bay Photo is preferred.  I went to Michaels and picked up 9 LP frames. That day they we on sale 2 FOR $5.99. They are plastic, but you can't see anyting but the black border, so it really didn't matter. I put the photos in, centering them on the white paper that was in the frames with some tape...