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I'm starting to get into a Halloween spirit.  It must be because I'll be visiting my grandson this weekend.  My costume will be a human banana.  I know it's sort of strange but Miles loves bananas so hopefully he won't get scared. I hope you enjoy this cartoon I found.

I found this very short film that reminds me of The Twilight Zone.  It was one of my favorite TV shows. It's better if you enlarge to full screen and turn up the sound.

I came across these songs with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.  I never heard of them singing together.  Hope you enjoy.

I was going through some old notes when I came across this sheet of good advice.  I copied it from one or more places but I neglected to put down the sources. GOAL DETAILS & ADVICE CHOICE 1. Choose goals by importance & priority considering limited time & energy. 2. Quality & effectiveness of effort more important than the amount of time spent on a goal. 3. Appreciate the experience as you do it: enjoy present moment flow & spirituality. 4. Avoid getting it over with & out of the way just so you can move on to next task which only leads to being in a rut and not appreciating what you have, always wanting more. EVALUATION To keep or improve the quality of your life; evaluate how you feel about your activities: I. IF YOU ENJOY SOMETHING: a. MAINTAIN: Do it regularly. b. FREQUENCY: Do it more often. b. ENHANCE: Improve how you do it.  Make it more effective. c. EXPAND: Do more activities like it. II. IF YOU DISLIKE SOMETHING: a. A...

Under the pine trees on the right side of the yard my wife Lynette pointed out these mushrooms growing.  I went back inside for my camera. I like the way the stem seems to glow. These look like they belong in some science fiction movie.  I think they are unopened mushrooms, not some other type of mushroom. I wonder what the marks on top are. Looks like something took a bite out of this one.  I hope it's not poisonous.

Here's the link: Online Image Editor - Pixlr Express - Autodesk Pixlr Here's a view of the controls. I like it because it's free with no need to join anything. You can use this editor then later use another one on the same photo.  Like FotoFlexer. FotoFlexer - The world's most advanced online photo editor Maybe they'er not as good as professional programs but they are easy to learn and more than enough for almost all types of photographs. Here's my other post about photo editors: Free On-Line Photo Editor- FotoFlexer

Here is the link: FotoFlexer - The world's most advanced online photo editor I thought you might like to know about it.  It must be free because of the advertisements, just like on TV. These are a few effects: The layout: This time I used it to make some simple variations on a photo I took from the roof of my brother's home. You can do much more.  It's free.  You can join and sign in if you want but you don't have to.  I did not. Original This has an old look to it. There's too much color here, like a cartoon drawing. These two are also cartoon-like. This is a good old sepia tone.  This one looks like a hand drawing to me. This "hand drawing" has more color, isn't as nice for me. You can also do more serious things like cropping, retouch images to smooth wrinkles, work with layers of images, re-size, change exposure, etc. It may not be as sophisticated as a professio...