Backyard Wildlife - Ornithologist Needed
I had a visitor in my backyard this morning. I think it's a Hawk. Any ideas?
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writings outside
also found out that my phone picks up the infra-red light emitted from the front of the laptop
Backyard Autumn Leaf Retrospective - via iPhone
The funky BG colors are due to shooting INTO the sun, using the leaves
as sun-shields.
Photography from our Backyard and Charlie’s Party
I took some pictures of the progress in the backyard and Charlie’s party. We blogged about Charlie's party on our family blog and soon we'll have more blogs about the progress of the backyard and Charles' reaction to it. But in this post I wanted to include some photos and descriptions.
One would think that decolourizing the background would be fairly easy. And it is in most cases. This time however Photoshop Elements did not want to recognise the ribbons as separate from the background; it took quite a long time to select them, sometimes even selecting individual pixels.
This picture (and the next) remind me of Depression-era photography. Here we see a man (my father-in-law) working on a project with various tools and construction materials in the scene. The difference between this and the Depression era is that I'm not being paid to photograph nor is he being paid to work (and it's also not a public works project).
This also reminds me of Depression-era photography with tools and debris around the chairs.
The next two photographs I find interesting because of the very different mood they project, simply by colour.
And now in black and white and a slightly different angle.
We cleaned small river rock we had in our yard and set it down. The below are close-ups of the rock. They don't give the scale of the rock but in our post on the backyard we'll have more information on that.
And this is a picture taken using the camera's digital macro feature.
Hopefully I have not been too boring; perhaps I should have left the pictures unexplained as it seems pictures translate poorly into words. Let me know what you think.
&*#&!%!
I didn't think the squash vines could get any longer, but they did. With their curly tendrils hanging onto blades of grass, they are going nowhere fast. The tomato plants also seemed to grow a foot over the past week. I had to re-stake everything this weekend, the poor bean plants were getting buried alive. It's a crazy jungle out there. I can barely fight my way through the foliage, or avoid being eaten alive by monster mosquitoes (there were five swarming around my legs yesterday! FIVE! good thing I was wearing sweatpants, socks, long sleeves, and gloves - my DIY hazmat suit - but they still got my forehead). It is so ridiculous that you can barely see where the edges of the garden bed used to be, yet I need to keep feeding the plants so that I may have bounty to harvest this fall. Clearly, Nature has made us her bitch.
We are now paying Drew's brother Jordan to cut the grass for us, partly because we do not want to deal with mowing around the squash vines (thanks, Jordan!). If he plows over a single vine, we warned him, he will have to mow the lawn every weekend for a month, for free. Harsh penalty, but those squash might as well be made of gold. I plan to eat every. single. one.
Big Kitty goes exploring
Another backyard adventure. He's getting good at hiding in the backyard - sometimes I can't find him and have no idea where he is - but he comes running towards the porch door when I call him, presumably for food.
