Four Years Running

Image Source:  D. Sharon Pruitt

Really...has it been that long?  It seems like just yesterday when I was agonizing over blog names (How I Named My Blog parts One and Two) and blogging platforms.  In spite of the fact that many people praised Wordpress, I ultimately chose Blogger, and it has worked well for me so far.  

So today I celebrate my 4th blogoversary without much fanfare, words of wisdom or unsolicited advice.  Nope, it just snuck up on me and here I sit with nothing to offer.

If you read the above links, you will know how I came about the name Roses to Rainbows, and that my blog was never about roses or rainbows, but rather just a mixture of facts and fiction, fun and frivolity, and most importantly, friends and family (including our cats who are most definitely family). 

As much as I have given to this blog, it has given back to me by providing me a place to explore my creative side through my fictional characters and the occasional stab at poetry.

I've tried to create a positive place for folks to visit, and offer a peak into my little corner of the world.  Please feel free to come in and take a look around.  The coffee's always on and there's wine after 5:00.  Don't worry, it's always 5:00 somewhere.

Here's to another year of blogging, and now to wrap this up I offer you Lynn Anderson singing "Rose Garden".  Cheers!

Quote of the Week

I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot. 
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Mignon was an American journalist and author, and also worked on both Vogue and Glamour magazines.  She wrote two volumes of the Neurotic's Notebook, and is often quoted from them.  The first was written in 1960.  That was a good year....I must read that book!

I found this under the category of "How True", and true it is.  Over and over again until you'd rather risk starvation than put anything else in your mouth.  

So, has anyone out there NOT done this?

Artistic Rosie

Rosie was feeling a bit artistic today.  He went from this...

To this...in four easy steps.

It's amazing what you can create with a digital image and some computer software.

You can make your own customized digital artwork.  Just choose your photograph, add one or more special effects to create a colorful design.

For this I used Paint Shop Pro, and layered the textures of mosaic antique and soft plastics followed another application of mosaic antique and finally applied the kaleidoscope as the finishing touch.

What interesting things have you done with your photographs?

Everything Is Coming Up Rosés

Wine Merchants Gourmet

For Wordless Wednesday...

Quote of the Week

Don't water your weeds. — - Harvey Mackay

The weeds will take over the flowers in your garden if you let them.  Likewise, if you feed your bad habits, they will gain on and eventually overwhelm the flowers of your life.