I have always loved this picture of my grandmother.  She looks like an angel to me.  I have wanted to do something with the picture for some time, but I don't know exactly what I want to do yet.  One thing for sure would be to drop the background of the bathroom.  I don't particularly want a toilet in the picture.  I wonder why whoever took the picture decided to take it in a bathroom.  That would not be my first choice.  The best part and the most troubling part to work with is the light coming from behind her.  In photoshop, because I am rather inexperienced, it is hard to manipulate the light to keep that angel like quality that I love about this picture, yet I want to be able to see her facial features a bit better.  It doesn't print as well as I'd like.  I'm thinking of taking the actual photo to one of those kiosks to make it larger.  The photo I have is actually quite small.  I was thinking I would create a piece for my brother and sister-in-law using this picture.  I'll have to post what it turns out like in the end.  Right now, I have ideas, but they are vague and I don't know if I can pull it off.  We'll see.    My classes start today so I don't believe I will have much time for artistic creations.  I hope I will balance my time well. Since I have started my master's program I have only taken one class at a time, but I am a bit anxious to be finished so I've chosen to take two this summer and my last one in the fall.  It is not that I want to be finished with my personal education so much, because I'd like to go on for a doctorate, it's just that I'd like to not have a class in the spring.  I am an advisor for our school's literary magazine and the spring is when we publish.  It gets very hectic and stressful and I'd just like to have one less thing on my plate.   Well...as my brother Todd would say, "I'm checking out."