Christmas Is Coming! Shop Smart!

The Holidays are quickly approaching. Before you spend precious time and gas running from store to store and fighting the crowds only to find the same selection of gift ideas everywhere you go why not spend at least a few moments visiting etsy.com

Celtic Cat Photos on Etsy ~ which includes my books!

Winter In Michigan

Usually In Michigan we have temps well below freezing and in the single digits at night. Not this year.

In fact my Day Lily under a pine tree came back in December because the weather turned warm. The poor plant has been struggling, until it finally got too cold and it died. One day it is cold here, then it gets warm for a day or two, then cold again.

Not that I am complaining. I haven't had to shovel snow this season.

Cathy 2 / 1 / 2012

Michigan Cotton AKA Snow!

Winter is my favorite time to take photographs. Especially after a snowstorm, the next day the sun is perfect. Since cotton doesn't grow in Michigan, I thought this is the closest we will get to it.

From My House to Yours ~ Happy New Year to All, have a safe and prosperous New Year.


Hopefully, this year I will be able to keep my blog up to date!

Cathy 12/ 28 / 2011

Photo Card Contest

It was a slow day in my studio, started out learning more about adding text to an image and ended up with content. I have never understood content and I am not sure if learned anything
about it I can use in the future.

So I made up about a dozen ideas for cards. Kept 6 with my winter image and one for V-Day which I will use next year.

Here is the contest part, rather than add all 6 cards to my blog I posted them on Flickr. Please go to my Flickr Photostream and see which one you like the best. Post the one you like the best here on my blog, everyone who posts will be added to virtual hat and in two weeks the winner will be notified and I will send them one of the cards. I have not seen these cards printed yet so I don't have a favorite yet.

Sorry! My Bad! Pick the letter on one of the top 6 images, that you think would make the best card on my Flickr page.

Cathy 2/ 15 / 10

Snow Snow Go Away!

Here in southern Michigan we really can't complain. This is the first big snow fall for the the winter of 2009 & 2010. I just thought I would show my Apple tree on Monday, which was very spring like, more like late March than February. I took another photograph on Tuesday.

It snowed all night Tuesday into Wednesday. I was lucky my neighbor came over and shoveled my drive and sidewalk. So I went out again and took a few more photographs.

Those of you who live further east and have really been clobbered this winter, look at it this way, next winter we will probably get all the snow.