Pre-Wedding Portraits

This is from the last photo shoot before Carrie and Mike's wedding. We went out to Tybee Island after GSU graduation and had some fun. 25 years ago we were just married. Next week, Carrie and Mike say their vows. How time flies.

Carrie and Mike 

May 12, 2012

Brian and Stephanie

Happy together

Photoplay

One of Brian's orchids has a double bloom. I don't remember the name of this orange beauty (the man only has 34 orchid plants strewn about), but I love the picture. I used my macro filter to get close up and then played with color saturation and some of the fun items from onOne's Perfect Images 3 Free. I wonder how it would look on canvas....hmmm..................

Marathon #3

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My grandfather and great+ uncle

I never knew my paternal grandfather, but this picture tells me he must have had a sense of humor. There's no year attached, but I know he was born in 1890. I'm guessing mid 1920s? Hopefully someone will have a better idea than I before I print the layout!

Tasty!

 Spicy Chocolate Cupcakes

o   Gluten Free

o   Low Fat

o   High Fiber

Ingredients:

·         ¾ cup brown sugar

·         1/3 tsp stevia powder

·         ½ cup egg substitute/liquid egg white

·         ¾ (ish) unsweetened applesauce

·         2 Tbsp sunflower oil

·         2-3 Tbsp plain Greek yogurt

·         One 15 oz can black beans, rinsed, drained, and pureed until smooth

·         2 tsp. vanilla extract

·         1 tsp. orange extract

·         1 cup +/- gluten free flour blend (I use a blend of coconut and brown rice flours with a bit of tapioca starch and a pinch of xanthan gum)

·         1 cup cocoa powder

·         2 tsp baking powder

·         1 tsp baking soda

·         ½ tsp salt

·         ½- ¾ tsp chili powder

·         ½- 1 tsp nutmeg

·         ½ tsp clove

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375*.  Line muffin tin with paper liners

Puree beans with applesauce and oil until perfectly smooth.

Add egg whites, yogurt, and extracts and blend another two- three minutes

Sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, chili, nutmeg and clove.

Add dry ingredients to liquid a little at a time, blending completely after each addition.

Fill muffin wells 2/3 full.

Bake 14-16 minutes (check for doneness with a toothpick.)

Cool five minutes before removing from pan.

Cool completely on wire rack before frosting. (I use a whipped vanilla frosting.)

Never Interfere with a Man and His Orchids

No, really. Some men collect cars. Some talk guns and the hunt. Others are all about sports and beer.


Mine talks orchids. It's his therapy. It's his passion. He should have been named Ferdinand.

I wouldn't change a thing.

Crazed with the Love of Light

Sometimes I just need to create without a plan. Progressive projects let me do that. Someone else tells me the steps and I make them happen. Ahhhhhh

Sojourner

I am re-reading Annie Dillard's Teaching a Stone to Talk. I love the metaphor of mangrove islands as our journey on this earth. Indeed, we are not of this world.

Carrie Loomis---future pop star