Two If By Sea

The Look of Determination

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:25:00 +0000

Repurposed Water & Glass

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:58:00 +0000

Water droplets on plastic in late evening light.

The cracked glass inside the viewfinder of a broken Mamiya.

Flowers reflecting in the mirror of a cracked Mamiya viewfinder.

Vintage Couple @ the Train Station

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:24:00 +0000

Pictures from the Inside of My Art Box

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:44:00 +0000

A Break for Color

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Memorial Day & Remembering Those Who Have Served!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:05:00 +0000

Violincello with Light Stripes

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:56:00 +0000

Hat

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:18:00 +0000

Collections

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:14:00 +0000

Glass A

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:19:00 +0000

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Growing up as a teenager in rural Indiana, my neighbor would tell me stories about working in the Ball Factory in Muncie, Indiana. Thus, began my curiosity and love for canning jars made by any of the companies Ball, Mason, Kerr and Atlas.

Above is an old, rusted Atlas canning jar that I put some needle, thread, and scissors in, and the sunlight did the rest. I could photograph fonts looking like frozen water all day. :)

Wish You Were Here!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:53:00 +0000

Fall Collage

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:36:00 +0000

Water Inbetween

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:40:00 +0000

I obviously didn't retouch this photo as you can still see the brown spots in the water lilly leaves. I simply loved photographing the water inbetween the pads.

This pix: shot late afternoon, macro lens, 400 ISO, 1/60 shutter, f 4 aperture.

Running Fuel: Homemade Granola

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:25:00 +0000

"The Recipe"

1 small 17 oz. jar of Soy Butter (1/2 jar)
1 24 oz. Sugar-Free Maple Syrup (1/2 bottle)
1 24 oz. bottle of Lite Guave Syrup (1/2 bottle)
1 package of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (Toll House)
Whey Protein Powder (at least 2 huge scoops)
Whole Grain Old Fashioned Oats (6 cups)
8 T. Wheat Germ
8 T. Bob's Red Mill High Protein Textured Vegetable Protein Powder

Combine dry ingredients: oats, wheat germ, vegetable protein, whey protein. Set aside and in a small pan over low heat combine liquid ingredients: soy butter, sugar-free maple syrup, and lite guave syrup until smooth. Combine liquid ingredients with dry ingredients and tweak as needed! :) Add chocolate chips. Mix well and lay out flat on a large cookie sheet lined with foil.
Bake 10 minutes @ 350 degrees. Does not taste good overbaked!!!

Let granola cool and cut up into bars and freeze or eat immediately. I package ours in wax paper for Ryan's XC recovery snack. I eat mine as pictured here with fat-free vanilla yogurt. Please note that I tend to eyeball the batter based on color and texture and normally do not measure. Find the consistency of dry-to-liquid ingredients you prefer. Add nuts, raisins, etc...and substitute peanut butter if you like.

My Spoonflower Fabric Sample

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:19:00 +0000

Today I ordered my free fabric swatch from Spoonflower! I am so excited and thankful to get a sample swatch from this company. My husband, Mark, is encouraging me to create more fabric designs. I love Spoonflower, and you will, too! Check them out if you have a moment~you won't be sorry. :)

The image on the left is one that I had repeated multiple times for my swatch. I'll share that fabric sample when it arrives.

The photo on the left is of some ephemera that I photographed, and then additionally, I screened back another pix of an f hole from a violin made by Damon Gray. Voila, I put the two images together!
Check Damon out on http://www.damongrayviolins.com/
His work is amazing!!!

Found: Vintage Pen Box

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Red Hot Peppers

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:41:00 +0000

Exercise: Keeping it Simple

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:16:00 +0000

Bridal Portrait

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:52:00 +0000

Wisdom

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:28:00 +0000

Even there...

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 31 May 2010 03:19:00 +0000

Meghan's Cell Phone

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:51:00 +0000

Butterflies are Free! :)

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:10:00 +0000

Happy Mother's Day!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:51:00 +0000

Happy Mother's Day Pam!

Green Peppers in Motion

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Lyons) — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:01:00 +0000