Too Many Meetings, Too Much Coughing and Too Little Free Time...

Where have I been? In too many after work meetings. In the last seven work days I have spent about 10 hours attending meetings. And I say, enough already, especially since most of it was data mining. I've also spent too much time coughing as I have come down with an irritating illness that causes me to cough all together too often and that makes it hard to sleep due to the wheezing sounds I head in my head. But, enough complaining. I have carved out a little time for fun, too.

Here's an example of something I made for a race flyer. You'll have to imagine what it looks like with the race name in that large, open space. The challenge here was to make something eye catching that is not too large as the flyer has two and a half pages of text.


I started out with this photo of Gabe and Mac. They are two amazing athletes on our team. This was taken at the Haystack Time Trial. I love their form and the look of hard work, as well as determination, on their faces.

However, the background was not so spiffy. Thanks to a bit of Photoshop magic I was able to turn it into a bucolic day with an amazing sky. I like this end result much more. Don't you?

I also took time to enjoy the amarillas that Lilia gave to me. The photos don't even come close to capturing their beauty.

They had a lovely pixie dust like shimmer to them.

It was glorious for about a week. Now they have faded and I am going to research how to take care of the bulb with its remaining stem and leaves so that it can shine, or rather, bloom again.