Photoshop to the Rescue

I have never used Photoshop before for anything other than cropping photos, but thought the previous picture might benefit from a little "fixing" - what do you think of the result?

Now, if I can only figure out how to get these pictures in one post in the sequence I wanted, I will be all set.

Yvonne, Brian, Linda - Help!!

At The Pond

This would have been a good composition if only the woman in the background did not distract from the mother and son engrossed with the pond. I waited for her to move, but she too was engrossed with all the flowers. And I did not even notice that there were two more people lurking in the bushes till I got back home.

Painter at work

This lady was totally engrossed in her painting!

My Opening Post

Our two children and daughter-in-law all have blogs, and since we live in Canada and they are in the US, their blogs have been keeping us in touch with all their news. I thought I would start my own blog, to post any (usually) less exciting news and pictures that we parents/grandparents may have.

Today, I visited the Experimental Farm and Arboretum in Ottawa. I have been working in Ottawa now for almost three years and had also lived here for several years before this, but have never been to the Farm and Arboretum. I took a few pictures in the beautiful gardens there, which I am posting here, to see how this all works out.