The Labor Day weekend and the week preceding it were very busy in Cleveland as the U.S. Navy anchored along Lake Erie to offer residents and visitors a peak into what life is like for Sailors.
A Blue Angel does a fly-over Cleveland Browns Stadium – Cool isn’t it!
The Week was held in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the War of 1812, which was only fitting if you recall the Battle of Lake Erie and around these parts there are a number of landmarks to remember Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry who led the naval victory.
Navy Blue Angels in formation over the skies of Cleveland.
Over the next several weeks, I’ll feature photos from that action packed week in this space. Today I thought I’d share the first video I created with my camera and a couple of shots of the Blue Angels, however because of space limitations I can’t embed, but you can see it here.
The 2nd Annual Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap is officially coming to a close. Over the last several days I received my last three cards, and as with the previous cards they helped to lift my spirits at the end of a long day!
The first was compliments of Mary Gordon who blogs here. The wonderfully liberated art is of a gull from Scotland. This gull is sitting at attention and appears to be watching over the land with a beautiful blue sky as a background. Adding texture to the shot is the apparatus it is perched upon, and no I don’t know what it is but it is a bit worn and adds great contrast and texture to the photo. Take a peek for yourself:
This gull stands watch over land in Scotland and is the fourth piece of liberated art I have received.
My fifth postcard comes from Colleen and features her first attempt at Abstract! Now I’m still coming to terms with calling myself an artist so let me say I’m not an expert, but I believe that Colleen has hit her mark! It is a beautiful work and features some of my favorite hues. I just love the earth tones…browns, golden, red, cream and a hint of yellow. I am slightly envious of Colleen’s courage, I mean how many of us are strong enough to release the first of something we have created into the world for total strangers to gaze at? But that’s the point behind Kat’s Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap and all I can say is THANK YOU KAT! So what do you think, here’s Collen’s abstract:
Colleen’s first attempt at abstract! Don’t you think this is wonderful, I do.
I also received the bonus postcard featuring the art of our tour guide Kat, and as always it was a beauty. A bounty of flowers along a brick pathway! The colors and textures are just what a photographer hopes to capture in her lens.
Well that’s it for liberating your art, well until I believe next week when Kat will host a blog hop. I hope you’ll continue to stop by so that you can see some of the magnificent art that has traveled around the world to brighten the mailboxes of the recipients.
On Friday I received my third blessing of art in the mail. The work comes from Deb C and contains a wonderful message! Take a peek and to see more of her wonderful art stop by her site, which can be found by clicking here.
Liberated art from Deb! Visit her at deborahcrecelius.com Unfortunately it looks like I had a little shake when taking this.
Wow it’s Saturday morning and I’m not at work! That’s a big Yay!! Even better I don’t have any deadlines looming for other projects so I can take a big SIGH and enjoy the rest of this Anniversary weekend!
Last night was really nice, and a big THANK YOU to all who sent well wishes! Still playing catch up here so below you will find Pieces of Me as part of the Beyond Layers Scavenger Hunt this week. I’ve post some of these to Instagram, but none here yet, so here goes it. Have a great weekend!
Monday
My favorite chair. I love to curl up with a book and read in this spot.Happened to see this chalkboard message as I walked out of a store and needed to capture it.
Wednesday
My kitchen faucetView of my front door, glaring need to repaint or redo stairs ugh! Can serve double duty as my mailbox is also featured.
Thursday
A beautiful chandelier. Doesn’t really fit the scavenger hunt because it is not in my home so not a piece of me, but I thought it was beautiful.
Books I am currently reading “Pym” by Mat Johnson and “Some Things That Stay” by Sarah Willis
Friday
My favorite beverage is tea of all kinds, but this is what is known as Auntie’s Tea because my niece and nephew love it and have coined it this way.View from my window facing my now decimated back yard.
That’s it for today, and a note this is actually being posted on Sunday!
Yea it’s Friday! This has been a very busy week and I’m glad to see it come to a close, well at least the work part.
So over at Reflection of You the theme for the month of August is to share a little about yourself each Friday by offering five facts. Today I have decided to join in, because I’m really trying to catch up on posting to this site and keeping up with some of my online communities.
Here it goes:
1. Today is my 10th Wedding Anniversary.
2. I’m the fourth of six children.
3. Procrastination should be my middle name.
4. Because of No. 3 I have found that I do some of my best work when under the gun.
5. I’m working hard on living life to its fullest!
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