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Garbage

8. February 2010

I don’t like palm trees of any ilk. Their greenery performs a loathsome death play on a regular basis, turning brown and waiting for someone with a machete to come along and hack them off like the garbage they are… two specimens:

Rainy Day

1. February 2010

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It’s a dark, rainy day and the natives are restless. Or simply miserable, like Bree here. Can’t tell you why I like this picture; she’s obviously not at one with nature and is contemplating embarrassing her entire breed by darting back into the house rather than get her feet wet. I did manage [...]

Instant Martian

11. December 2009

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The papaya bloom closed up and now there’s a pod. …which of course reminded me of…

Garden Fairies & Early Birds

5. December 2009

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The fae folk were good to us last night… there’s a bloom on one of the papayas… …and of course no post would be complete without ‘the girls’… pictured here early this a.m., bristling at something. The dogs wanted out at 5:30a, so their willing slave obliged. Unfortunately, they were both in full hunt mode. [...]

I Spy

23. November 2009

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I wonder almost every day why the camera sees things differently than the human eye. Oh, I’ve read the explanations… but sometimes they just don’t cover the weirdness. Such as why the windows in this picture look white. I know, it was focused on the umbrella. There’s news from the garden! This [...]

Redo

21. November 2009

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I completely dug up and redid part of the front beds yesterday. The part which Cleveland, in his infinite wisdom, had tarted up without my knowledge or consent. I vowed to live with it for a while, but yesterday was long enough. The man had used quikrete along the edges of the bricks and under [...]

Amazing Droplet

14. November 2009

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Wonder why it appears silver? At least you can tell exactly where the water touches the plant…

Leaves

25. October 2009

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Love the sun radiating through leaves… and believe it or not, this is the effect I was trying to capture. How something so simple can be so wondrous… I call this one: “No, really. Some of it is in focus.”