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I love them I have a little bed that a tree had to be cut down and we left the stump, and so it's my fairy garden of sorts. Put pea gravel around it and then just put whatever I find cheap in it each year. I will get a picture off my phone and post it here soon I have been a member for a while I took care of my mom for several years til she passed last year then I have health issues , but I am getting things together and can't wait to be active here I love all the things Cassel teaches .

I like to create magazine covers to showcase my photos.

You must be relevantly new to the campus. I have been quiet for the past few months, it is summer after all, and where I now live in Canada, the season is very short, but guaranteed to be hot and sunny, unlike my homeland Wales. I've been active in the campus since late 2015, and seasoned members have become accustomed to expecting my layouts to be of all kinds of nature. Here are some recent posts. I thought my posts would automatically go into the gallery, but I see obviously not.

Insect Macro photography is one of my many outdoor hobbies. I find the wonderful world of insects fascinating. To put your mind at rest, Less than 25% of solitary bees and wasps don't have stingers. Those that do (females) will only sting when threatened. Even then it doesn't have the same effect or hurt as much as a honey bee sting. They usually don't sting when being handled, and I handle them all the time, fishing them out of the bird baths, picking off my clothing, they buzz in my hand, which tickles until I release them. Only bumblebee workers and Queens have stingers, even then they are only used in defence. Like the solitaries, they don't usually sting when being handled. To answer your question I have never been stung.

These delightful interesting bees have consumed a great deal of my time this summer, observing and macro photographing them. Which is very tricky as they are super fast and really tiny. Every year I create more and more bee log tower hotels for them. Drilling hundred of holes in each one to accommodate the residents. This year I had well over a thousand leafcutter bees to home. For those that are interested :The drill bit size is 5mm, with a depth of 2 1/4 inches. Each bee can lay up to 6 eggs. They collect pollen with the " pollen brush" on the underside of their abdomen. Starting at the back of the nesting chamber, the female bee builds a protective leafy wall, which she will pack with a loaf of pollen and nectar (or paste). She then lays a single egg directly on each loaf and seals the chamber with another protective leaf wall. Typically, the females will lay eggs that will become females towards the back of the nest and males near the front. This behavior provides an extra layer of protection for the female eggs.

Ik ken een beetje Engels, maar zo nu en dat ik een woord van twee oversla. Hier is mijn bijdrage aan het thema van de maand. Deze heeft mij een paar uren bezorgd. Te veel items naar mijn zin. Ik hou van rustige en serene beelden. De naam van het lettertype is: Morgen, ik heb de foto vorig jaar zelf gemaakt. met mijn mobiel, nu is het dit jaar te regenachtig. IK ZIE GRAAG HET POLLEN OP DE BLOEM.

Lab 11d Mod 5: hexagon shape, smudge brush, dictionary copy: All done - (smudge brush was used in the bottom left corner and top right corner. The picture is one generated by me in CFSpark (asked for a cat on a rug by a fireplace) - used the white overlay reduced to 10% and then overlayed one of Susan Ewert's cracked paint overlays with reduced opacity just to give the frosted glass some depth ; the papers are my own. Made several ribbons or paper strips of different hexagons I'll post them also.

I checked in 'more options', and lo and behold, they do translate to and from Welsh.

Is there an option for Welsh too??

Love the doors, you are so creative. Would like to see what goes on in your head when you get ideas.

Sue, where I work in an industrial area that borders natural areas there is a few empty lots (2 of which are in the middle of the industrial area). they are always grassy and that's where I picked my Western Salsify weed to photograph. a couple weeks ago we went to cut some more for me to photograph. I only took cutters and no camera. We get there someone had cut the long grass in the lots. What we saw was ground squirrels... a lot of them, too many to count...and no camera. I've worked there almost 10 yrs and never once saw a ground squirrel. My doctors office is also there and I parked by one of the empty lots a couple days ago and there they were again, not more than 10 feet from me. They are adorable. I had no idea they were there at all.

Thank you Susan, perhaps others will make their own log tower hotels. The photos are degraded due to having to resize down to post. The logs I use are dry, around 2ft tall, with a diameter of anything from 9 inches to 13 inches. I drill 10-20 rows of 20 holes in each log close together. I don't drill all the way around only the front.( purely for photographic reasons, also positioning them in direct sunlight, for most of the day) I have them standing upright. Once the season is over I put them in the garage for the winter, taking them back outside in late Spring.

Playing with wooden frames and the nested frame. Here's a photo of GG Sonya Anne with her grandfather, Ernie, at the Sussex County Fair (aka NJ State Fair) last week. The font is Childish and the screws are AHA-Somewhere-in-Time.

COOL!

I'm in too

Hahaha! No! But then I don't need a translator for Welsh. ?

It changed the comment to English. Even less steps to take when doing a translation.

Using Google Chrome, I just right clicked on the text, and translate to English is one of the options, something I didn't realize. I have learnt something new today.

I use Edge as my browser so my way might be different than yours. I highlight the text, right click and one of the options is to translate to English. No needing to go to google and enter the text.

I have google translate bookmarked. I highlight the text I want to translate, right click, copy. Then in Google translate paste. You don't need to use the clipboard. I don't need to select the language, it automatically detects it once I've pasted it .

I didnt even know google did that until read someone on the campus using it. All this time I couldnt read the comments. One day the computer programs will know our own native language and translate autmatically. That would put the AI's to a good use.

I highlight the text, copy to the clipboard, then go to Google and type in Google translate, it's pops up with it will pop up and click to put your cursor on Enter Text (it's picky, I had to click right by the beginning of the E) and then paste. Hope I got this right.

Occasionally I've popped into the campus. Everyone has been very creative. My family at home have said the same thing about the weather, they too have had a great deal of rain. Not the summer they were hoping for. I was home this time last year, and the heather on the mountains were blooming then. Rachael sent me some pics of the heather on Mynydd Yr Gaer only yesterday, which she took whilst out exercising the horse.

How do I translate Jannette's comment into English or even Welsh, to enable me to read it.

Je zult een goede camera hebben Suuze Tomas. prachtige foto's maak je. Ik heb alleen een mobiel met een redelijk goede camera voor enkele kiekjes. Die ik dan geregeld vergeet te gebruiken. Dan is de dag alweer voorbij zonder aan de camera gedacht te hebben. ?

It has been a hot, dry summer, we've had less than a 1/4 inch of rain since last year. With less and less snow each winter these past 4 yrs. Between my outdoor activities, kayaking, riding, cycling, photography, gardening I've been ploding away doing cards, 2024 calendars, and advent calendars. As I'm going home for December and January. I'm also doing calendars for my little granddaughters using the photos I took of them when I was home last year. Sifting, sorting, and selection photos to keep from this year's many thousands of shots is a laborious, time consuming job too. So all in all it's been and still is a busy summer, but I will continue to be active while I'm still able. The hummers have arrived for 3-4 weeks, making their long trip back south, some birds are already starting to flock too.

@Sue Thomas, I'm very glad to see you back in the campus with all those wonderful photos in equally beautiful layouts! I wasn't too worried not seeing you here for so long, after all this more or less happens each summer and sometimes in winter too, depending on the weather conditions. I hope the weather at your place will remain good for some time so you have more time to shot more photos, enjoy your animals, go kayaking etc. Here we have a very strange summer, juni was exceptionally hot and juli was cold and had so much rain that there was some flooding in certain areas. The plus is that the heather is blooming fantastic and rather early. Of course I made photos which will appear in layouts in the coming months. Now I'm following the scripting course, we just started but I can already see it's very appealing. Scripts are made in another "language" which is very logical as far as I can see and being a beta that suits me to the T. But it is time consuming!

•✿• What a beautiful couple, Ann! This layout is as beautiful! I love how you lowered the opacity on the larger image, as it really makes the other two stand out. Super layout indeed!

•✿• How truly fascinating indeed, Sue. What a super hobby! Being allergic to them, I would never dare to get that close. How brave you are! Have you ever been stung by them?!

I didn't comment on my layout in the initial post. Anyway, I used the embossed technique on the text in the two shaped elements. I must confess, that I was itching to resize down many of the layers, but I refrained from doing so. Lol.

So very interesting and requiring a lot of patience.

Daughter Laurey and granddaughter Jackie flew today to Toronto, Canada, for a 4 day vacation. I insisted they send lots of photos so I can use that for my travel layout. I told them I already have a few basic shots...

This was a great challenge, and by that I also mean brain smoking! Somehow it came together, I never really feel I'm in control of the out come, I just go with the flow that seems to evolve in the process. There are some fabulous results being posted and tricks / tips shared. Thank you all. This tells the story of my Sister's grandson having lunch with our Dad, his GG Papa. The request was for tomato soup and crackers which is a favourite for both of them! The papers, tags and graphics are from a DS kit of Jessica Dunn's called Bistro. I overlapped a lot of the rectangles at varying opacities. The inner circle was filed with a paint transfer and shadowed which gave it some texture. The large font is Ravi, and the pointers are Gigi, both in my collection, probably from Creative Fabrica, but I'm not sure.

Lab 11 Mod 4: Rope words; rope wound around a wood frame; horseshoe. All 3. Again I used that upper and lower section - this time for the title words (made with a rope tube) and used the rope tube for the frames. The cowboy boots are from Creative Fabrica; the frame is from Cass. This was good practice with the pen tool and creating vector shapes (the horseshoe) and I also used Cass-CustomDirectional Tube script to create a tube of the horseshoe. I was going to use it on the layout, but decided against it - it just didn't work for this layout.

Bless your heart, Carole! You work so hard for this wonderful community. Everything is so perfectly laid out and easy to use. Keeping my fingers crossed that things stay as prompted for you!