Texture, Texture, Texture

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This little wagon was the wagon that both my son and daughter played with when they were growing up. Both of them have children of their own now. The wagon is pretty old but you can see they took good care of it. Here it sits on the porch of our little garden shed filled with really big Easter eggs. Texture Thursday is hosted by Audrey at The Daily Wyatt. Link up your photos with added texture or texture naturally there. My photo this week has a little of both. There is lots of texture in the gray board siding of the shed as well as the wood plank flooring of the porch. The wagon is covered with the texture of peeling paint and rust that you can't see on the handle. I've added a Kim Klassen texture as well to my original photo and played around with different blending modes to achieve the look you see in the image. Hope you enjoy!

Posted for Texture Thursday, Theme Thursday, LEM Photo Challenge .

Welcome to West Virginia

MY WORLD MEETS RUBY TUESDAY

Today is the launch of a new meme hosted by the same wonderful folks who bring you Sky Watch Friday. This new meme is for everyone who has a photoblog! With it you become a virtual tourist guide, showing all of us your part of the world: your celebrations, your landmarks, your home and neighborhood - your world! Since it also falls on Tuesday I will be combining a Ruby Tuesday post today where participants post a little bit of red or a lot of red.

So - here goes!

What better way to welcome you to my part of the world than by beginning at a West Virginia Welcome Center. This one is on the state line between my home state of West Virginia and the adjoining state of Ohio. When I took this photos one minute the sky was bright and the next it was cloudy.
This weathervane atop the center is the outline of the state of West Virginia. Not many straight lines here folks. We definitely have distinctive boundary lines! Wild and Wonderful West Virginia will be the focus of my My World posts in the weeks to come.
Today I'll start in my own neighborhood. This is a photo of a neighbor's beautiful red wagon decorated for the Halloween season. Regular readers might recognize it from a July post when it was decorated in red, white, and blue.

I hope you've enjoyed my little part of the world today. My virtual vacation of sights and scenes from around the world is waiting. Some of them will be of things red! If you'd like to tag along be sure to click the badges at the top of my post.

Ruby Tuesday: Yard Art

Got something RED that you've photographed? It can be a little bit of red or a lot of red.

Ruby Tuesday is hosted by Mary/The Teach over at Work of the Poet. Click on the icon to visit those who are playing today or to post your photo and join in the fun too!

Don't you just love this beautiful piece of "yard art." You know - those things people place in their yard for whatever reason. This red wagon sits at the bottom of a neighbors long driveway surrounding by an immaculate landscaped yard and a pond further up. Yes, you can see the hay in this photo I took in the spring when the lawn was being cut for the first time; but trust me it is always very well groomed. The red wagon is an impressive showpiece by any measure and is well placed to highlight the yard and the wagon itself. On the other hand take a look at the next photo of "yard art" I took while out driving with my Mom. We both were left speechless.
If you don't get too distracted you might just notice the red fire hydrant with the little dog there in the middle of the photo. You might also notice the red paper box. IF, you can get past all the other objects in the yard. Just a little bit of an overstatement wouldn't you say!!!