Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... March, 2008

March 1, 2008 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[JustAmy]

If either Obama or Clinton win the presidency, I think I will move to Australia or New Zealand. ; ^ )

I’m praying that he will be proved wrong when he says there are no red states and right when he says there are no blue states.

Good morning, Jaycee.

Hope you are having a Magnificent Monday.

[JustAmy]

I thought I had saved the Haiku that OESY started at the original threads but I could not find it.

It was fun to have everyone contributing to that.

Also we had that -——gram thing that I could never see, but it was a fun thing to play with.

I spent the morning doing maintenance on my graphic folders. Since I am using mostly graphics and poems that were used before, I needed to mark them as used recently.

[Mama_Bear]

Also we had that -——gram thing that I could never see....

Oh, yes, the stereo-grams. Those were fun, especially so since I have learned how to see them. I still have some saved on my computer, maybe I will post one every so often. What do you think?

[OESY]

It's not Red Across America Day? Oh, never mind. I always had trouble reading. d

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[JustAmy]

Focused Fury sent this via email .... Thank you Focused Fury!

This is from the Texas Tech-vs-University of Texas basketball game last month.


Happy National Anthem Day!

[JustAmy]

I think it would be fun if you would post one every so often. I enjoyed them even though I could very seldom see them. LOL

[JustAmy]

*smile*

Some of the best ideas come to me as I’m just drifting off.

I’m so glad that you remembered it.

[JustAmy]

Thank you, Kitty Mittens.
MamaBear made the graphic used with Bob's butterfly poem.

I occasionally try making graphics but they are very amateurish.
Hopefully some day I will get better. : ^ )

[JustAmy]

I think the picture of the little boy at the library is precious.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Suess!!!

Happy "I Want You To Be Happy Day!"

[gardengirl]

The ideas aren’t the problem! I’ve got a massive case of CRA—can’t remember anything!!

I think it’s got something to do with being relaxed and getting still for a moment. I have this cartoon pic in my head of all these ideas chasing me around and never quite catching up! LOL

[JustAmy]

Did you say Red Cross Day?

Okay ..... Happy Red Cross Day!

[JustAmy]

"I’ve got a massive case of CRA"

That is the reason that I was forced to spend some time doing maintenance on my graphic folders this morning. LOL

[OESY]

How about Red Toss Day?

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[OESY]

Alternatively, you could have Sped Across America Day (or month?).

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[MEG33]

Loved the butterfly poem and graphic..Thank you!
Happy Monday everyone..It's a cold.rainy day here..I
lost cable for awhile...unusual for me.

[JustAmy]

Happy Sped Across America Day!
; ^ )

[JustAmy]

Good afternoon, Meg. Thank you.
Lovely butterfly.

"It's a cold.rainy day here..I lost cable for awhile.

Bummer .... It may get back into the 70's this week;
our weather is mostly clear and the wind has stopped.
I hope our rainy weather is behind us.





Happy National Anthem Day!

[Mama_Bear]

How do you do such beautiful graphics?

Thanks, gardengirl. I use Adobe PhotoShop CS because we use it in our photography business, but it is a very expensive program that has way more bells and whistles than the average person would ever use. There are many inexpensive and even free programs available that you can have a lot of fun with. One free program is PhotoFiltre. There are free downloads available all over the internet. It doesn't support "layers", but does many fun effects on graphics and photos. There are also many tutorials out there, or you can teach yourself like I did, by trial and error.

Creating graphics is a creative outlet for me and I am thankful that Amy lets me work with her. She thinks I am doing her a favor by helping with Amy's Place, but it's actually just the opposite. ;-)

[gardengirl]

I’ll have to get my daughter and my niece to show me how! I write, mostly, and read on my pc. Not very adventurous otherwise.

[JustAmy]

LOL

"She thinks I am doing her a favor by helping with Amy's Place, but it's actually just the opposite."

You're very sweet!