It's Abstract Thursday!

Today is AbstractThursday and being the first AT of yet another new month, our regular host Ingeborg has set not theme.  My image is of fuchsias and roses in our garden, together as a double exposure and given a touch of my favourite PS Elements Distort filter, Wave,
As I can no longer access Picasa and seem unable to master PS Elements Layers, I was delighted to discover that PS Elements does in fact have Double Exposure as one of its guided edits.  This means that I can layer two images with the required transparency in one (well two) easy move!
This evening we attended a special Christmas Preview event at Van Hage Garden Centre.  This has been our favourite garden centre but now Blue Diamond have bought it out.  On the plus side the garden centre has been saved, the windmill restored and there has been and will be lots of much needed renovation.  On the negative side, Van Hage's has lost much of is individuality as some products are phased out and Blue Diamond ones brought in.  The new layout, which makes you walk through every section, with no cut throughs makes it rather claustrophobic especially when you find yourself corralled in a small space with lots of others, trying to look at and choose merchandise!  It's pretty difficult if you forget something that you saw early on your travels too!