Here are a few photos to make up for my recent delinquency, which will turn into my future delinquency as well because I leave for California in 8 hours. If my posting can be sporadic even when I’m home, who knows what it’ll be like when I’m away for almost two weeks.
So, in the meantime, here are a couple of [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you mango chow, Trinidadian style.
I know it sounds strange, but trust me. It’s addictively sublime. I’ve been eating a lot of this lately, and I’m telling you, it’s impossible to get tired of this. It’s sweet, salty, tart, spicy, and oh by the way, incredibly healthy too.
Here’s what you do. Take a half-ripe mango and [...]
Except, I wasn’t really slacking off. Really. I’ve been doing stuff. Lots of stuff.
Honest.
But I did still find time to shoot my daily photos.
I photographed food in my kitchen:
And some trees outside:
One afternoon, after finding myself uncharacteristically fatigued (and I mean f-a-t-i-g-u-e-d, as in I could barely walk and every ounce of my being was screaming bloody murder), I even [...]
Remember these mystery flowers from a few days back?
To help identify it, here are some non-macro shots of the entire plant. Please, no comments about the water spots on my vase. They already gave me half an hour of grief as I was viewing the shots earlier.
Here is a closer view of the leaves. They’re a bit fleshy and have [...]
And it sprang up in a spot where I don’t even remember putting down any daffodil buds.
Must be the work of the chipmunks. The ones around here keep toying with me. So much for carefully planned bulb placements.
Not that I really put any planning to it, of course. I just like passing the blame.
And the other day, she put on a show in my backyard. I ventured out thinking I’d get photos of more flowers, and instead caught glimpse of her latest abstract work.
Exhibit 1:
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Exhibit 2:
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Exhibit 3:
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I swear, she never ceases to amaze me.
Apparently, the rhododendron has decided to join the springtime race.
But currently, the fully-bloomed pink hyacinth is still in the lead. And she’ll remorselessly brag about it, too. The wench.
But, as pretty as she may be, she just lost some points with me. Because when I positioned myself to take a full frontal portrait of her, I noticed something.
There. In the [...]
Today, Ree (a.k.a. The Pioneer Woman) shared the first set of Photoshop actions in her blog. After an initial misstep which left me glaring at my PC for a few minutes trying to will it to cooperate, I finally got the set to load. I couldn’t wait to start playing.
I literally took the first photo I could find on my [...]
From a little plant my husband grew in water in his office. It is now sitting on my kitchen table, and every morning I give it some fresh water and ask it to please put out more of these pretty little red flowers.
I don’t know if it hears me, though.
