This is what I wasted a day and a half on the last couple of days. . . putting together a jig saw puzzle. I finally finished it last night around 10:30. Part of me wants to quit once the "fun" parts are finished, but another part of me just can't leave it alone until it's done. The sky and the water in this one were the hardest (obviously) because there is so much of it and most of the sky looks just like all the rest of the sky, and the water looks like all the rest of the water. But there is a sense of accomplishment when I stick with it and get all those pesky pieces in their proper places.  Now it's time to tear it up and put it all back in the box, and get on with more urgent needs . . like vacuuming and dusting the house.

In Oklahoma, no matter the season, and on almost every day of the year, WIND is a given. And one of the great things about wind is that it really makes a wind sock a fun thing to have and watch. Here's my current wind sock in action.

This is the latest submission of mine for the Digital Nuts Weekly Nutcracker challenge. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would or at least not anything like I was trying to get it to look, but dog gone it . . . I like it anyway. It will take me months and months to learn Photo Shop, but at least I'm learning which of the many filters I like. There are literally thousands of settings and combinations thereof to boggle the mind. But hey . . . I'm having fun.

This was one of the Digital Nuts challenges this week.  I couldn't upload it, so Alice had to upload it for me. I did a 2nd challenge picture but could not upload it either.  I don't know if something is wrong with my computer or not . . . but . . .  fiddle dee dee, I'll worry about that tomorrow.

Imagine my surprise this morning when the door bell rang and there was a delivery person with flowers for me. Lovely yellow tulips in a beautiful red vase. They were from my son and his wife, although he had said last week not to be surprised if something came from Mike on Valentine's Day. Mike was my late husband, and I guess my son remembers how much Mike had loved to surprise me with small gifts on Valentine's Day.  I think it's sweet.

This is my very favorite picture from our recent trip to the zoo. I did just a bit of work on Photo shop on the background. The tiger I left as is.

As you may already know, Alice, Gill and I went to the zoo on Friday.  We really had a great time and the weather was very cooperative. These are some of my favorite shots.

This is one of the Nutcrackers Challenges for this week. I played around with it in Photo Shop, basically just applying filter after filter until I thought it had had enough filtering. You can see what the original photo looked like here.  I really don't have a clue what I'm doing in PS but I am trying to learn.  

Find of the day: Time Stops at Grand Central Station