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There is a Texas Butterfly Festival [13th Annual Texas Butterfly Festival, October 16th to 19th 2008, in Mission, TX, located in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas]. I am hoping to go this year. I have not been able to go before and every year it seems that I end up not being able to go for one reason or another … I really hope this year I get to go .. I would love to see all the butterflies and take pictures of all the marvelous flora and fauna in the Rio Grande Valley … I’ve only ever heard or read about it .. I’ve never seen or experienced it personally … crossing my fingers … maybe this year!

Texas Butterfly Season by Barbara Burns

I created this design a few years ago when I first discovered that there is a Texas Butterfly Season … I had the design for sale on t-shirts at that time … now it is for sale as a fine art print - it would be gorgeous in a frame hanging on the wall of a butterfly collector’s home or office. It would also be a great gift for the butterfly collector in your family. This design represents my hopes and dreams of getting to go experience our Texas Butterfly Season in person and not just reading about it on the Internet!

Texas Butterfly Season by Barbara Burns

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My grandson’s birthday was May 9th … for his birthday, I bought him a Kodak Easy Share digital camera at Walgreen’s … I wanted something good but easy for him … he is 11 years old … and he was taking great pictures with it … it came in a blister pack, not a box - I did not buy him a dock … his camera takes regular batteries and is only 8.X megapixel … I don’t know what model .. but it is a very nice camera … my daughter liked it too … and he took some marvelous pictures of a blue jay on the patio table through the door glass … and he got some awesome pictures of his dogs too … having fun with it is the entire idea.

I bought me a new Kodak too … mine is for business though one cannot help but enjoy working with a camera … or anyway I cannot - I’ve always loved taking pictures and digital is immediate gratification … (my old Kodak DC4800 works … but the LCD screen won’t stay on - I have been considering taking it to a camera shop and see if they can fix it … I have several lenses for it and it took great pictures of my oil paintings … even if it is only 3.X megapixels).

Anyway … my new camera is a Kodak Easy Share too … the V1273 … 12 megapixels … a touchscreen … very small and easy to operate … it has a lithium battery.

I need to transfer the pictures from the card to my computer … I’ve been taking pictures of things around a theme of … texture … I want to create my own library of textures for using with PhotoShop and Painter when I paint and make digital photo collages … and I need to be able to take pictures of my watercolors for my Imagekind Galleries … I have some to photograph … and I have some new watercolor paper in a great size for doing tall narrow tree paintings … the paper is 6″ x 18″ … it would be great for wide but narrow panoramic seascapes too I think … I plan to experiment with the new paper this week-end.

I had to pull my old Kodak out tonite so I could get the piece off it that goes to my tripod … I have a VERY nice tripod that I bought years ago when I bought the Kodak … I need to use it for photographing my artwork … I am not steady enough to hold the camera still while snapping pixs even with the new tiny camera … photographing art work is delicate work … and not the easiest thing I have ever done.

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