Gnew Gnome

We've been wanting to get a garden gnome but hadn't found one we really liked till I got a Lakeside Collection catalog with this jaunty fellow.  We both liked the design, the price was awesome, the fact that he's small, and I love the changing colour ball he's holding.

It's solar powered so every night, it turns on and cycles through all the colours of the rainbow.

Cool, no?

Kaleidoscopics

I had to come up with a May Photo of the Day, for Project 365, that had the theme of "Unique".  I went back in my craft room and started looking around at all the unique artwork and tchotchkes I've picked up here and there over the years, but nothing really cried out, 'SHOOT ME!'  Then my eyes fell on the kaleidoscope I got about 25 years ago and I remembered that I'd once experimented with shooting pictures through it, back then.  The results were pretty cool at that time, so I decided to try it again.

Needless to say, I am extremely pleased with the results

Pretty cool, eh?