When I was going through old purses last week, I came across a stash of forgotten giftcards, including one for Pier 1 that hubby had given me for Christmas 2 years ago (thank goodness they don't expire!!). So, before all the stay-home admonitions had started, I took myself shopping 2 weekends back and found this:


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One good thing about incessant rain, it makes for lovely flowers. My deck is definitely bedecked (and in sore need of sealing again, so ignore the weathered wood planking):

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On Labor Day, hubby and I went to our local botanical garden. It's been years since we've been, and back then it was mostly a Japanese stroll garden and a hosta shade garden and a lot of dreams of growing bigger, which it definitely has. Free to the public except for a small fee for the Japanese garden, it's very lovely, even late in the summer ( Read more... )

I've had a couple requests for a synopsis after I go see Captain America: Civil War Sunday, so I'm thinking about creating a custom filter for that, just to ensure only those who want to read it do and no one else is accidentally spoiled (even though I'd put it under a cut). If you want to be included in that filter, let me know so I can add you ( Read more... )

I chat with you more on twitter than here these days, but if you see this... have a rain-kissed iris from my garden this morning for your birthday!


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So, I was fiddling with the camera in the garden one evening this past week, using a 10x macro lens screwed onto my go-to 18-55mm zoom lens. I took a series of photos of a columbine bloom, focusing each time on a different "layer" of the flower as I looked down on it from above.


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Brain is still fogged, but the sun was at the right angle, so I took the camera out to the garden to play around with black and white photography, something I've not dabbled in much. But I wanted to focus on the shape and form of a flower, in this case a peony, which tends to be my floral muse each year. I can't resist playing with images of them.( Read more... )

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Or, in other words, more floral picspam!  Life is still a little big wonky for me, but you have to take time to smell the flowers!  (Or at least take pictures of them.)
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