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I had fun with Jan this afternoon at Chloe's Paint and Sip. I really enjoyed having 2 straight hours dedicated to drawing and painting. I love making art but then I don't do it that often. Making art for my own pleasure seems frivolous when I should be cleaning, organizing, cooking, making something useful or doing something constructive instead. ( Read more... )

I just happened to look down at the info bar at the bottom of my laptop screen and all of a sudden I now have a thing called Copilot Preview there. Clicked on it and found a place to do AI stuff. I had it make me a picture of a "realistic human eye":


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My appointment with the insurance co nurse on Monday went well. Pretty painless. She had the strangest, loudest laugh and she used it for the slightest thing. She was delighted because I had my cataracts done, because I beat cancer, because I hike weekly with friends, because I have tan marks on my feet from my sandals (I think that's funny too but ( Read more... )

I had a few more pictures that were on my phone that I wanted to process and did that this afternoon. Pictures at the Philly airport, normal color cellphone pictures from Kathy's and my walk today and also a few pictures taken in the backyard with the macro extention tubes on Kathy's full frame camera. Here:( Read more... )

I did take a little tour around the cemetery where my grandparents were buried yesterday morning. Took some pictures:( Read more... )

I actually made some progress in the basement yesterday. Took Hazel's tires out and stacked them outside (with a cover over them so they wouldn't get water in them). Cleared off two work tables. I ordered a patterned paintbrush roller that I hope I can use for painting my plain cloth material. I have the area all ready for doing that when it gets ( Read more... )

Last evening we had one of those skies where everything looks yellow. The world is changed. I tried to get a picture of the light but it was hard because the camera wanted to auto white balance things and then the pictures look normal. So I did a "shade" setting for the white balance and got these pictures from the front yard. It started to ( Read more... )