a weekend hike

I took a short hike last Saturday after work in the foothills just west of town. I donned my hike hat, shorts and shoes, grabbed my iPhone and took off in the hot afternoon sun. Thoroughly enjoying just being in the mountains I was also in 'gathering mode' - gathering images for the wonderful Photoshop Grunge class I just signed up for.

Up, up, up I climbed...almost to the top of the mountain,

with a magnificent view of the Denver area down below.

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I collected many texture photos,

but as always, the wildflowers beckoned...

I love the color of the soil in these parts...a beautiful, dusty pinkish-terra cotta.

I'm not really sure what any of these flowers are called.

I know...these dandelions are actually weeds.

The Good Lord is an amazing gardener, isn't He?

He doesn't seem to worry about the weeds.

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Linking up with:

• Friday Finds these trails are my streets
• Beyond Beyond where we are making textures this week
• Texture Tuesday these excursions are truly Stolen Moments...I used Kim's kk_avery in the texture I created for this post (see below)
• A Weekend Walk you gotta check out Helen's wonderful blog and join in the fun

All photos were taken on my iPhone 5, with the ProCamera app.

I made my own texture - 'RockGrass' - by combining these two photos, then layering with kk_avery,  following Kim's Photoshop tutorial, and playing around with it a bit on my own:

Here's my RockGrass texture:

All photos were edited on my iPad Mini with the PS Touch app. Just a bit of cropping and one spot removal (that spot alone took me at least a half hour by the time I figured out the Clone Tool); then one layer of RockGrass - Multiply blend mode @25% opacity.

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xoxo

Cindy