An Environmental Day

Yesterday, I booth sat with Dr Platt for the Apalachee Audubon Society at Birdsong's Mirgratory Bird Day (www.birdsongnaturecenter.org), while Mark hiked around. Unfortunately, we did not get any customers other than 2 young girls checking out the booth. But it was a pleasant day sitting outdoors under a cedar tree eating our lunch. Afterwards, we went to Tall Timbers (www.talltimbers.org) to attend the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival sponsored by the Apalachicola Riverkeeper (www.apalachicolariverkeeper.org) organization. We saw one excellent short film, titled "The Story of Stuff" by Annie Leonard. You can watch it for free on her website www.storyofstuff.com. If you ever wonder where all the stuff you buy come from and where they go and who is really PAYING for all these "low-priced" stuff, you need to see this film! It has very simple animation that clearly explains the "story".

Dr Platt is celebrating Auntie's Day today so I say to all: Happy Auntie's/Mother's Day!

First T-Shirt Design w/ Business Name

Yesterday, I was shopping at a local fabric store for discounted t-shirts. I finally decided on a business name for my digital photography and came up with this design for my own t-shirt. I just finished ironing it on. Not bad. Now I have created my first commercial t-shirt! Happy Cinco de Mayo!

More Flower Childs

Here are more images of my niece inspired by our visit to Leu Gardens in Orlando. There's also a photo of me at the Rose Garden--see what I mean? There were rose blooms everywhere!

Flower Child

Here is an image inspired by the rose garden at Leu Gardens in Orlando. It was a truly amazing sight! Practically every rose bush was in bloom.

A Threesome At Last

Well, I haven't had a chance to photograph my niece and her parents as a trio so I have photoshopped them. One of these days I need to do it so they can have a decent photograph for their upcoming Christmas card!

Angelina My Muse

My niece continues to be a source of inspiration for my creativity--so she is my muse. After all, she got me back into sewing and pursuing digital photography further with learning photoshop.
This past weekend, we met up with Gi et al and college friend, Jim Ruiz et al in Orlando. We spent Saturday together. On Sunday, while they all went to SeaWorld, Mark and I returned to Tallahassee via Leu Garden in downtown Orlando.
Here is Gi with an image I took at the garden--practicing with the gradient tool to blend images together.

More Blooms!

Here are some more images inspired by the spring season. Most of the images came from photographs that I took at Mobile Botanical Garden on April 4, when Mark was attending Henry Wo's Chinese ink painting workshop.