Gratitude is the art of seeing the sun in the mud puddles…

After all most two solid weeks of rain, I finally decided to give up and go with it yesterday and then as I was trying to see if I could get an interesting reflection from the puddle of standing water on my lawn, the sun began to shine through the clouds…a little bit. The sun didn’t really shine — the area of the clouds he was hiding behind just became a little brighter but I managed to capture that bit of brightness in the water. Yeah for small successes!!

For our Texture Tuesday assignment, I used Kim’s Crackerjack and The Ladder textures as well as “Golden Orb” from French Kiss Textures and one that I got off of flickr a long time ago and sadly can’t remember whose it was. Here’s the layers palette: