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I hope that all you Mothers had a wonderful day

Sue and I went looking for some more raw materials for her new creative outlet on Mother’s Day afternoon. Sue is getting involved with making jewelry and has had a couple of very successful pieces as she learns the ins and outs of putting gems, beads and metals together. They are really looking nice. Got some nice images of a couple of them on Saturday morning and I’ll put a couple of small shots below. I’ll put up a gallery of images soon. Turquoise photographs extremely well and the lighting looks good.

We stopped in at Tanners and a friendly herd of Dairy Cows came by to look at the funny looking people on the other side of the fence. These are big soulful animals and I can see that they are pausing and having their thoughts about all of it as we stand there. I’d last visited with a herd of Black Angus Cattle that were on the other side of the fence.

I have hundreds of new reference shots (thanks to John at DigiTech) of the Black and White “Gateway” Cows and hope to do some drawings of them soon. Looks like it will rain tomorrow afternoon.

We started at Talbots and widened the search area to yesterday’s score at the King of Prussia Mall. Moving around the area near the Oxford Valley Mall and then in the Oxford Valley Mall itself we looked at just about all the dresses and such that are available. Sue just wasn’t going for what she saw.

The stuff that we found in the local stores was the result of a process of deciding what had the least wrong with it rather than what we liked about it. That’s just not the right way to go about shopping. Sue spent hours looking through the stores online to see whether or not they had something that she truly liked.

All of that changed once we were shopping at the King of Prussia Mall. Quality stores and pleasant sales people make all the difference in the world. The King of Prussia Mall reminded me very much of a Mall that I’d grown up near… The Mall at Short Hills in NJ. That was a nice Mall. The woman who helped Sue was great and it was an easy choice. Neiman Marcus got the sale.

I really don’t under­stand the big deal that people make when going shopping with their female companion. It’s not difficult and the opinion is generally helpful. I had a very good time overall and all those dresses and shoes… My mind was drifting a few times thinking about Sue in some of the stiletto heels that were in the stores. Heels are an “inter­esting” design. Absolutely imprac­tical. Right up there with neckties for men. I can’t imagine standing on an angle like that. Got to say though… Nothing could possibly terminate a beautiful leg more grace­fully than a good pair of heels. At home — Rudy kept his attention on home security while we were out. Growling and gnashing at a whole bunch of nothing.

Have to figure out how to upload some of my new NextGEN Galleries…

I found some software yesterday and downloaded it for a spin. Nothing too fancy but actually quite pleasant to use. That’s right. I just created this theme for WP myself. It was very inter­esting going through all of the various framework. To make a long story short — I’m a designer and Art Director — not a php kind of guy.

So — locating this was a good thing for me. It was adver­tised on AlexKing​.org in a little banner in the article about the people at Crowd Favorite updating all of the Carrington themes. That was really amazing to read that. I have plenty of graphics — both illus­tration and photog­raphy as well as Graphic Design. Now I can get this stuff to work together instead of trying to get every­thing to fit the hard way.

“Now I can get this stuff to work together instead of trying to get every­thing to fit the hard way. I shot the moon with my Olympus on a tripod with a telephoto lens and a variety of different timings.”

This is all working a lot smoother than I’d imagined that it would’ve. That’s good. I had a techni­cally oriented family member once tell me that I’d never be able to edit any PHP code. Well that’s fine with me. I’d much rather just work on my pictures. Speaking of pictures — The sky tonight at maybe 9:00 or 9:30 PM was lit up contin­ually by lightning.  No really close crashes but some nice bass sub-woofer action — Wow. Sue was working on a project for work and I was afraid that perhaps the lights might blink out during the storm but instead all kept going fine. I’ll keep working on my theme.

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