last haul from the garden

ah... so here's a snap of one of the last harvests from our garden. this year's crop was pretty good and we were so happy to have tomatoes for such a long stretch. if these guys ripen, they should be pretty good, but...

i don't think they'll make much of a meal :-)

really... 12 october?

this is going to be a long winter, isn't it?

continuing to goof around with gimp

ok, here's some fun i had playing around with gimp, the gnu image processer. pretty cool stuff, i open it up periodically and mess around with a few things. since i don't use it every day, i tend to have to re-learn things all over again each time i open it, but it comes back fairly quickly.

here's the original pic... some doofus eating ice cream.

woah, the doofus gets a litttle class with the photocopy effect
now, after adding cartoon effect and playing with colors through the "curves" i was able to get an extremely cool combined effect.

and here's oilify. he looks like a zombie.

the source of my inspiration

if you only knew how many "wows" i have said in the presence of these eyes. i wish i could be more intelligent or more creative when she looks at me but, sometimes, "wow" is all i've got.

our wildflower patch

t planted a wildflower patch in front of our house. it's been fun to watch it change over time.

i really have no idea what kind of flower this is, but isn't it great?
gasp.



the prettiest flower of them all


and something spicy.

the eyes have it

all of these eyes are related in some way, but not all of them are blue. some are multiples from the same person. all of them capture you.

fred

he may be getting old and developing a bit of a "milk mustache" but he's still got some puppy in him. we were playing with a racquetball in the back yard and he was pretty excited about it.

ok, black-eyed susans are just about as cool as...

daisies, except they bloom when the daisies are done.

open letter to the phonebook people

really? eco friendly? B-freakin-S


you print this thing and put it in front of my house even though i don't want it and yOU THINK IT'S STILL OK TO CALL IT ECO-FREAKIN-FRIENDLY!!!

deep breath.

if you want to be eco-friendly, let me print one on DEMAND!

now, please leave me alone.

this never happens on the road bike

umm... not all of that is tan... the mountain bike ride really left some dust on my legs.

cx bike (noir)

cyclocross is a fringe sport. something that shows up on cyclesport's dark edges. a little fuzz and desaturation brings this set closer to that edge...

the cx bike

grimy but functional. the cx bike is getting a little long in the tooth (like me). it's not as colorful as it was in years past--the green tires are gone and basic black ones with no gumwalls are there. it's no longer about style, it's all about getting around the course (hopefully, faster than at least one other person).

like a candle in the...

dark... cooler looking than your average citronella candle, our deck is (somewhat) bug free and full of ambiance.

faces in the moon

am i just seeing things or are there faces in the moon?


it changed a little from a demure face to a bit of a chucklehead...

russian sage and bumblebees

looking skyward through the sage.


it took more than one try to catch a bumblebee.


playing with focus.


the sage produces its own veil.

tomatoes

one of our heirloom tomatoes hiding in the leaves

the ripe cherry tomatoes are toward the middle of the plant too


one ripe cherry tomato winking from the top of the bunch.


no, that's not my finger in the lens, that's another of our heirloom tomatoes.

the break-in!

the bunnies, it appears, have compromised our plastic security perimeter around the garden!

sunshine in a glass

the garden begins to provide...