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Sepia Scenes: Is it the 1950’s?

Is this Highland Park in the 1950's?
Is this Highland Park in the 1950's?

No, it’s South Fourth Avenue, taken with my camera set to sepia color!

See the post below for sepia photos of homemade bread.

For more sepia photos, visit Sepia Scenes.

Oatmeal Quinoa Bread Pics

Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal, camera color setting = neutral
Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal, camera color setting = neutral

I made two loaves of Mimi’s delicious Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal on Monday. I had fun playing with the different color settings on my camera.

Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal, camera setting = sepia
Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal, camera setting = sepia
Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal, camera setting = Auto
Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal, camera setting = Auto
Happy girl who later eats the bread, camera setting = sepia
Happy girl who later eats the bread, camera setting = sepia

Blue Monday Cat

A neighbor's cat, in front of blue house, behind rhododendron
A neighbor's cat, in front of blue house, behind rhododendron

Click the cat to enlarge. For more blue photos, visit:
bluemonday

Today’s Flowers: Sedum

sedum_driedI took this photo of a dried sedum flower a block away from my house a few days ago.

sedumHere’s a sedum flower I photographed last September. I believe this is “Showy Stonecrop” or Sedum spectabile. I would like to try growing this flower in my garden this summer.

For more flowers, visit:

Today's Flowers

What Do You See?

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Welcome to another round of “What Do You See?” with a drawing by my daughter. So, nu, what’s in this illustration? Thanks for playing!

A Weekly Review

I discovered the sepia setting on my camera on Wednesday night.
I discovered the sepia setting on my camera on Wednesday night.

On My Blog

Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Sepia Scenes
Sky Watch

A Meaningful Tweet
How to Get the Most Out of Your 140 allowed characters on Twitter

Website Revamp
I redesigned my home page.

Creative Summer Programs
What would you like to do creatively?

Time Travel Flick
Enjoy my son’s movie about time travel through a dumpster time machine in Highland Park.

Who is Helping Whom?
I answered this in the comments. I have another one of these ‘What Do You See’ posts scheduled for Saturday night.

Elsewhere on the web

Why You Shouldn’t Eat Soy (a video)
What Soy Products are Healthy (another video)
New York Times: Twitter? It’s What You Make It

Haveil Havalim, the blog carnival of the Jewish blogosphere, will show up is now up on this blog on Sunday morning (that’s Sunday afternoon to those of you on the other side of the Atlantic).

Sky Watch in Edison

swftomSky Watch Friday is a photo meme with photos of sunrises, sunsets, blue skies, gray skies, pink skies, dark skies and any other kind of sky posted by bloggers all over the planet.

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OK, I lied. This first one isn’t in Edison. It’s on my block in Highland Park, but I want to learn the name of the tree that has these branches. Maybe in the spring when the leaves come back.

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I took this photo yesterday at about 5:30 pm, when I was picking up my son from an after school program. The school, RPRY in Edison, New Jersey, is a Jewish Day School, so both the U.S. flag and the Israeli flag were flapping around in the sunset. Today they are probably flapping even more; the wind has been howling since this morning, and a poor woman in Mountainside, New Jersey was killed when a tree fell on her car.

rpry_basket
This shot was take above the basketball court at the school.

Sepia with Teal

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I love the color accent setting on my camera. My daughter’s ballet tutu was in teal, so teal got the accent for these photos. In Photoshop, I just adjusted the magenta and yellow settings a bit to add some sepia.

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This photo has sentimental value, as the paintings that are highlighted because of the teal setting are my mother’s landscapes.

If you want to see a funny sepia movie, check out Time Travel Flick.

For more sepia photos, visit Sepia Scenes.

Ruby Tuesday with a Heart

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Some of you may remember the snow girl my daughter, middle son and my daughter’s friend built. Well, she melted a bit, then she got snowed upon, so I put some red sunglasses on her and stuck the heart back on so she could pose for my Ruby Tuesday shot. It’s good I did it last week, because the snow has now melted all away. My daughter did not approve of my new snow lady at all; she claimed I ruined her. I think I gave her a new style and look.

For more Ruby Tuesday posts, visit:
rubyslippers

Today’s Flowers: Winter Bud

Rose of Sharon in winter
Rose of Sharon, dried out buds in the January sky

The sky really was this white on this day in mid-January. Today, in early February, we are having a thaw, and I looked outside for signs of crocuses. Maybe my neighbor’s snowdrops will come up soon? The ground is still too hard to plant peas, but I should order some new ones and some inoculant to plant with the pea seeds.

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