Golden

Well, it only took me 5 1/2 years to complete five years of blipping!  
I am so very grateful for this special community and the people who make it hum.  I love the daily challenges and the "Be Nice" philosophy, peerless among social media.

Thank you for lifting my spirits when I am down. I am humbled and buoyed by good people around the world who care what happens to other people they have never met. Thank you for sharing your wonderful fotos of families, flowers, fun! found in your lovely journals. 

~ For CALIFORNIAGIRL who shared her art HERE and asked that I do the same.  The assignment in my landscape class today: 1. choose a nature photograph, 2. pick out parts of our old artwork to cut up with which to create a collage, 3. abstract what we see.  
~The second extra shows the photograph from which I started. You might not see the connection, it is quite abstract, but then that's the point.