After I wrote my last blog here, I was prompted to think about my hobbies – gardening, blogging, walking, biking, fixing things around the house – Oh my, none of them cost very much – of course blogging means I get to find hidden things in nature that I can tweak with my computer and figure out what to say about them to you, my  readers. Hardly spend any money doing that.

I do go to Google from time to time and ask it to show me a list of “Inexpensive hobbies” – just in case I want to do a new hobby for a while. My point here is “You do not have to have one hobby and you do not need to spend a lifetime doing your hobby.”  – switch off from time to time – I think it is more fun that way. In most cases the cost is near zero.

I will show you a few things I found hidden in nature, tweaked them a little, then sent them out on this blog just to show you.

Found these stones while out on my bike.

Tweaked it a little – think I liked the original better – see not all my efforts are successful.

Kissing mushrooms – just as I found them. I was afraid of failure if I tried tweaking.

Some rotting wood – and antique hub and belt pulley for an old sawmill.

Here I isolated a portion of it and tweaked  a face.

Clouds are always fun to find images hidden in them – maybe a lobster in the sky.

See the tree that looks like a dancing girl in upper left quadrant – Oh my on her hip is a sad face.

Turn it upside down – do you see a happy face on her hip?

Oh my – back to the original.  Did you notice the deer hiding there in the center watching me?

See the deer.

Hidden shadows are always fun.

Think I like the original better. No tweaking here

Now here is an interning one – maybe it looks like a dog. Nope, it is my shadow with camera to my face photographing a hidden image. When I got home and looked at the photo I saw my shadow  down in the corner – so, I cropped everything else out and kept the shadow!

Oh my – as you swing through life look for hidden images – not just out in nature – maybe lying in bed looking at the moon beam casting a shadow on your wall or in the doctors waiting room you will see interesting scratches on the painted wall? You can take this hobby anywhere. Hey – did you notice the rock that is a hidden face in the upper left corner of the  My Yellow Rose photo at the top of this page?