Starfield

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Where has the last week gone?  Mostly it's meant more painting at my house.  Not fun at all because I'm having to paint it a neutral color that will sell well instead of something more vibrant and to my liking.  Nothing wrong with the tan just not what I prefer for my living space.  Hoping the end is in sight to my career as a paint princess.  It really is getting old.

This is a heat map and some other filters on a shot of Johnny's night light.  I find the start on the wall fascinating.  I really need to reshoot this some that the edges of the sphere don't have ghost stars.  I was focusing so much on the wall I didn't keep my eye on the other details.

JB Headed Home

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JB finished his tour of duty helping us to move and work on fixing up my house.  The boys and I got him the Fuquay-Varina shirt.  Seems he has a white t-shirt from everywhere he's traveled, and that's a lot of places.  I thought we'd add to his collection:-)  This shot is right before he pulled out.  I figured I'd better get one shot of JB and Donnie together before he left!  We sure did appreciate JB's help while he was here, and no way did it seem like he was here for a little over two weeks.

JB and the Doors

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JB, Donnie's brother, was busy painting the interior doors at my house.  He's in the garage, and there are doors surrounding him.  First primer and then the real bright white paint.  So glad I don't have to paint these!

Meanwhile Donnie and I were inside putting primer on the walls.  Painting the entire inside of my house is a real chore especially after we painted the entire inside of Donnie's house first!  

Black Tiger Swallowtail

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This guy was on a tiny pink rose that you can't even see.  I like the shots of the yellow ones from the last few days better but thought it was time to share a shot of one of the black ones.

We started fixing up my house to get it ready for sale.  Today I cut in primer on the walls in the master bedroom/bath, main bath, and the boys' old bedroom.  Donnie did the roller work in those rooms.  JB was primering all the doors in the house.  That's a lot of work when you have to take them off, label them, wipe/scrub them down, and then actually paint them.  We're hoping to be ready to put the house on the market 9/1.  Cleaning up the inside after 20 years is a large effort.  We'll have our regular guy come in and power wash the exterior and then we'll hire someone to stain the decks and paint the windows/trim (brick house). We could really use a rest...

Yellow Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Take Two

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Another shot of the butterflies taken at Donnie's house.

Front Yard Deer

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I was cleaning in the bathroom when I saw these deer out the window in our front yard.  Love the zoomed in picture showing the buck and doe grazing in the grass.  Lower right shows part of the tree that fell down in a storm earlier this summer.

Yellow Tiger Swallowtail

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I've been away for 12 days while we moved. We are all settled in at Donnie's house, and now the fix up on my house begins so that we can put it up for sale.

Since the rain stopped a few days ago, I've seen a lot of butterflies in Donnie's yard and mine. I finally had a few minutes to take some pics yesterday. This shot was by far my favorite. The leaves all around the sides really gave the shot a nice framed of vignette feel I thought. This was by far the sharpest shot too.