Ohio River Panorama

We spent a pleasant day today. We did the factory tour at Fenton Glass in Williamstown, WV, then drove to Parkersburg. Lunched at a nice cafe, The Daily Grind, went to the Blennerhasset Museum, and stopped at Fort Boreman. Tucked in the Museum basement were display cases filled with prehistoric Indian stone tools and weapons, all hand labeled on yellowing paper in old style calligraphy. The labels must have been 70 or so years old. Some one put a lot of time into the history. The second floor had "A Century of Wedding Dresses" and river boat memoribilia - and some very cool old desks, several of which would look good in my house.

The pano was taken from Ft. Boreman on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River. Spectacular view of Belpre and Parkersburg, as well as miles of the Ohio.

Finish Every Day

The Emerson quote was posted on Gretchen Rubin's blog, The Happiness Project. I was feeling a little lost, and creatively stuck, and it caught my attention. "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Photographed the heron at Beaver Marsh in the Cuyahoga Valley. To get the pen and water color look, I used the poster edges filter in PhotoShop Elements 9, then brightened up the color a bit. The text brush was downloaded from the web and the border brush is from Sande Krieger of 2 Peas in a Bucket. She's a really talented digital designer, love her stuff!! A couple of faint drop shadows, and there you go! The font is Calibri, my new favorite sans serif. The sun's shining, and I'm having dinner with Chuck tonight - should be a nice day! Hope yours is, too.