I decided to not take pictures for a week!! Boy was that hard but I did. Instead I took the time to go thru hundreds of photos of my grandkids to put together a photobook for my son TJ. After working with creating a photobook with Photoshop Elements 6, I discovered I could make the photo album into a movie and email. Lo and Behold and discovered today that I could upload the video to facebook (my son told me) and to my blogger page so here it is. The last 2 pages don't have the pictures ....I don't know why...oh well...enjoy!

Bringing it all into focus. I focused on the rose bud with the full bloomed rose in the background. If we knew what our future looked like before we were there, would we want it?

I have been watching the leaves and buds on my rose bush for 3 weeks. You can't imagine how excited I was when the large white rose finally opened up Sunday morning and it had just a few dew drops on it. It made the perfect black and white picture!  

Sometimes we find ourselves wanting to see the end results without going thru the steps and stages needed to get there.  Just like the rose, beauty takes time and so does success.

This flower is absolutely beautiful. It is made of two colors with purple lines radiating out from the center!  Purple is one of my favorite colors.  What are your two favorite colors?  Is there a flower that is one of those colors?