Summer Storms

This picture was taken at 10pm about a week ago. The lightening was amazing. I drove to a road just north of our house to take pictures.

I could have stayed there all night taking pictures, but the storm moved through and and I only got a handful of neat shots. Maybe there'll be a next time.

The lightning was mostly moving sideways. As I recall from what I've heard, that would be heat lightening. It was rather warm that evening, so that doesn't surprise me. We did have a few sprinkles, but not much in the way of rain.

Next time I hope to know my camera better and get some long exposures.

Swap with Cristal

Last weekend I created these 4 ATC's to swap with Cristal Wooten. Cristal is an amazing artist and teacher from Arizona. Cristal was the first person to send me an ATC out of the goodness of her heart. That really touched me and got me interested in trying some different styles of art.

The pieces that I've seen of Cristal's...she likes to use different paint pens in her creations. I've been lucky enough to get to trade with Cristal a couple of times now. She always inspires me to try new things. I've started using some pens to embellish or enhance my art now. I used paint pens on three of the ATC's I made her...AND I used some H2O's on one of them. Love the shimmer and affect H2O's create.

Our theme was BIRDS and it was supposed to be blue, green, and purple. I tried to stick to the colors, but the top left one I just couldn't. I hope she likes it, as I used a REAL nest to create it. You can't see it, but there is a tiny plastic egg under the bird too.

Three of the backgrounds have pages from my vintage dictionary....I used pages that had definitions for BIRDS.

Thank you Cristal for always being so kind and willing to trade with me.