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I hope everyone had a lovely week-end. We shared our holiday with Baby Girl and her family and had loads of fun.
We dyed Eggs for the Easter bunny to hide and the colors came out so pretty. We used Baby Girl’s fresh from the coop eggs which are mostly brown eggs. We had to leave the eggs in the dye longer but it was so worth it. Look at these colors! I love the red and green ones the best.
Instead of chocolates we took the kids cookies to paint. We found the kits at Costco and it was fun. Even the teenage Grand-daughters enjoyed painting their cookies. There was enough for me to do one so I painted along with a couple of the kids. They ate their cookies as soon as they finished painting them so I didn’t get a photo, unfortunately.
Later in the afternoon the youngest Grand-daughter taught me how to drive the little red Quad and after two loops I was zipping around the property having a blast. I can’t wait to ride it again. I plan to go down the harder roads on their property then!
Let’s go back to my camping trip and look up at the stars from Mono Lake.
” Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”~ Henry Van Dyke
There was quite a bit of airline traffic that night as you see. I took out a couple of airline tracks that were red and distracting I thought.
I hope everyone had a great week-end, and you’re glad of life this week and always!
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These are gorgeous.
Thank you so much, Kally!
Looks like you had a wonderful Easter holiday! Your star trails shot is AMAZING!
Thank you so much, Denise! 😀
Wow – this eggs have such a vibrant color – they look like they belong to van gogh’s Easter bunny! Never saw brown eggs dyed like that
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And the stars and quote were such a nice lift to my morning – thanks
Thank you so much, Yvette! We had to leave the eggs in the dye cups longer to get good color but it was worth it. I’m so glad you liked my star image and quote too. 😀
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You know I love those eggs. Tell me, how is that effect with the stars achieved? It’s so stunning.
Thank you so much, Cheryl!
Making a star trail image…there’s a lot of instructions and too much for comments. Email me I’ll share with you what I do.
Thanks Deborah!
Wow! Love the colors on the eggs! 😃 And enjoyed hearing about your Easter. Sounds like everyone had fun! Hooray for Spring! 🌷
Thank you so much, Jill! Easter was lovely. I hope yours was too! 😀🤗
I am here for the eggs😋, with all due respect they look so gorgeous. I feel like buying them just by looking at how colourful they are.
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Didn’t they come out great!! Thank you so much for stopping by to visit my blog this morning Mthobisi!
Great splash of colors, Deborah! Thanks for sharing. Hope you’re having a nice Spring. 🙂
Thank you so much, Paul! Spring is just getting started here and I am loving it. I hope you are too.
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😀 Thanks!
Beautiful Easter eggs, love the colors. Beautiful night sky, love the color. I think I have a theme to my comment.
LOL! Yes, but I love it!! Thank you so much, Ally! 😀
The Easter eggs are beautiful! I’m glad you and Baby Girl took the time to dye the eggs. It makes Easter eggs special. Can I tell you that most parents today hide plastic eggs filled with candy for their children? There is not the ritual of dying the eggs. Sad! Oh, I want to drive that Little Red Quad! And, thank you for the beautiful photo of the stars in the sky. 😀
Baby Girl did some plastic eggs too with one Golden egg with $20 in it! All the others had candy and/or coins, a few $1 ones, and one $5 one.
I made Deviled Eggs out of most of the dyed eggs to go with our dinner. They were a hit too!
Thank you so much, Jennie! 💗🥚🐇
Wonderful! 🙂
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That’s another worthy take
On the fabled Mono Lake.
Thank you so much, Steve! It’s definitely a fabled and wonderous place.
I visited there only once, decades ago, and would like to go back.
I hope you get that chance!!
In Greece we knock our eggs against each other and see who ‘wins’. There is a lot of cheating with fake eggs etc. Happy —belated—Easter, Deborah! Ours is this week.
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Thank you so much, Marina! Are the eggs raw or cooked for the Easter Eggs matches? It sounds fun. I’ve never heard of that or seen it. I’ll look for a video on it.
I’m having issues with Instagram- I can’t like anything without getting a notice that I’m blocked. I can still post and comment so there’s that to be thankful for. It’s annoying though!
Wow, to have your work selling in a shop beneath the Acropolis!! That’s a place that seems more like a dream than a real place. I wish you all the best with your new Etsy Shop. Happy Easter!! 🕊🐇🥚
You had a WEEKEND! Lots of fun with the grands. I did not know you had older granddaughters. Lucky woman. The sky photo is A+.
It was fun! I think I’ve I mentioned the girls before but, not very often. We got 4 Grand-daughters when Baby Girl married The Handsome Surveyor, he got #1 Grandson from her, and together they made Littlest so 6 in all! 🥰
Thank you so much, Judy! The first of several night sky images I hope to do this Spring/Summer season.
Now, I understand. Life & blended – both good words. 🙂
Yes, they are. 💗
Beautiful eggs and a wonderful time on the quad Deborah, this is how life is meant to be enjoyed with family.
Hear, hear, Ashley!! I do love spending time with my kids, and grand-kids. He-Man and I feel so blessed that they still want to hang out with us. 🥰
The eggs are lovely but the cookies are a better idea for the kids. I’ve never driven a quad although a horse is a quad of sorts right? 🙂 The sky shot is beautiful. What editing do you use? Lightroom? I just use some free ones and always wonder whether it’s worth it for me to pay for more.
Thank you so much, Janet! They got so much chocolate from the Easter Bunny that this was a good idea!
Yes, the horse is quad of sorts! 🤣
I use Photoshop. I never could get into Lightroom with it’s catalog management system when I already had a great system of finding, tagging, and storing my images on my computer and I was used to using Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, and Bridge.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it I say! If the current program you’re using doesn’t do layers there are free star stacking programs out there if you want to get into night sky photography.
It sounds like you had a wonderful time, Deborah! The eggs look like oval gems. Wonderful starry night shot too!
Thank you so much, Belinda! It was fun, and the night shoot was lovely it wasn’t too cold and pretty clear. I’m glad you like the image. 😀
The sky photo is amazing. I love the egg colors and the picture of you zooming around on the quad. That must be fun.
Thank you so much, Dan it is fun! I’d get one if I had the room to store it and a trailer, but we don’t.
Wow! That last photo…amazing! Love, love, love it!
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Thank you so much, Deb!! I’m so glad you like the Star Trail image. 💗😀
Fantastic picture of the stars above Mono Lake!
Glad you’re wearing a (good) helmet on the quad!
Thank you so much, Pit!! House rules one must wear a helmet on the quads! It’s a heavy helmet too! 😀
I’ve never been out on my bicycles without a helmet. If I hadn’t done so, I might not be here any more. See here for what happened to me a long tmie ago:
He-Man has had a couple of bad crashes and we too are thankful he had his helmet on!
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Next year when painting cookies you need to stop your grandchildred from eating the things for at least 5 seconds, Deborah. 🙂 Riding that quad looks great fun and your star trail photo at Mono Lakes is stunning! As always I’m glad of life and I’m happy you are too!
Thank you, Peter!! Yes, I do need to be quicker with the camera next year! 🤣 I’m happy you’re glad of life too!
Your Easter weekend sounds like a lot of fun and sweetness, Deborah, and the colored eggs are spectacular. Really loved the star photo, what a masterpiece–the sky and your photo–and the quote was lovely too.
Thank you so much, Jet! It was a fun week-end that went by all too fast!
It was lovely being under the stars listening to night sounds and it wasn’t too cold! 😀
Beautiful eggs, Deborah. That quad gives me the willies. The stars’ photo was spectacular.
Thank you so much, John! That quad gives me butterflies of excitement! 🤣 I hope I remember how to start her up next month!