12 posts tagged “garden”

First time ever!  Now I am in the photography stream of SU!  woot woot!  I hope that is a good thing.  I'm going to be famous one day.  In my own mind only maybe but that is good enough for me. 

bee, dahlia, self portrait in a drop

do you see me on the bottom right petal?  that was just a bonus, what a pretty flower!  I had such a good day today, I didn't need to crop hardly any of the shots and only deleted a dozen or so out of 75.  Oh gosh Nikon users, if you don't have a 105mm Nikkor micro (macro) 1:2.8 you gotta get one!  I can practically touch the flowers when I am shooting them. 

Brett Favre is a douche!  I am proudly wearing my "We will never forget you Brent" tee shirt today.  He needs a therapist. 

Here is a shot of my mystery plant today...I took the camera to the nursery and they thought it might be a variety of Aster.

mystery plant, aster maybe

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Ok the weather is beautiful, I've accomplished a lot today...updated facebook, twitter, Vox, took pictures, downloaded pictures, uploading currently to flickr...and I need to get outside.  Times a wastin!

the storm moving east

Yesterday afternoon, we had a doozy storm work its way through here.  when it was over I snatched the camera and ran outside for refraction opportunities.  

I think I have it figured out, sort of.  First of all, it helps if you can actually SEE the refraction in the drop!

trying to refract

I've got a ton of pictures that look pretty similar, but if you look closely you'll see the flowers in the raindroplets. 

drops

refraction

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drops 020

drops 018

I got some good shots of my potentilla with drops on the petals, but the only thing refracting was the sun.

potentilla petals and raindrops

potentilla bud

fox river from the deck

Three of the stitches fell out yesterday so an entire flap was hanging down and bone fragments were coming out onto my tongue and I thought "oh shit".  I called the doc and he wanted me in by the evening so he could redo the stitches.  My check feels like someone beat me to a pulp.  The pain is controllable though. 

This is a shot of our deck, you can see the river in the distance.  Our trees are still not blooming. 

Since we gave up gambling, we've been spending money on other things, more tangible stuff, here is a show of part of our deck furniture;

Flowers Macro Garden 002

I haven't taken any pictures today, I pretty much feel like crap.  Nap is next on my agenda.

Here are some photographs I took yesterday, you can see the rest on my flickr.  I think there is a link somewhere.  The macros aren't loading right away so I will post them separate or something. 

ranunculus (4)

osterospermum (2)

Flowers Macro Garden 009

dahlias (2)

Toothache

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Take It Easy, Lay Low.  Those are my doctor's instructions.  I am recovering from emergency oral surgery, thanks to a popcorn kernel.  You see, my favorite ones, the only kernels I eat are the ones that are split.  Well I should know better by now, my teeth are just weak.  I stuck a little mirror in my mouth so I could look at it with the magnifying mirror, and it looked like the tooth had had an earthquake.  And it hurt.  But today it hurts worse.  And I'm probably going to get a bellyache from taking the medicine on an empty stomach, but my belly is already woozy. 

So I went to see Michael yesterday, this tooth that I broke was one that he had done a root canal on and put a temporary filling on, to be crowned.  But good old Karen the Procrastinator, did not make an appointment.  I am in the office 2-3 times a week, I should have just jumped in an empty chair when I had the opportunity, but I didn't and I can't blame anyone but myself for this predicament I got myself into.  Michael looked in my mouth, and when I heard "Justin hand me the extraction forceps", I knew it wasn't good news.  He said he couldn't save the tooth, and he didn't want to grind on a healthy tooth to make a bridge, so I am getting an implant.  DH couldn't extract it himself, the tooth broke off and left the root tips behind.  He called a colleague and made me an emergency appointment for 4:30. 

We got there 15 minutes early.  Insurance doesn't cover it.  That was the first thing we found out, but I suspect Dr. Newman will give us professional courtesy as we refer a ton of patients to him.  And after as good as he was to me, we will be sure to be sending more.  He was so thorough, so kind, he went over my health history, explained what he was going to do, gave me enough xanax to make me relax, started the nitrous and went to work.  I bitched a bit because the nitrous wasn't high enough, and Dr. N asked DH what he usually gives me and DH said 40%.  So he cranked it up and I didn't feel a thing.  He let the local anesthetic on long enough that I didn't even feel the needle, and after that, time seemed to go rather quickly, but slowly. 

It was 7:30 until we left, and I was feeling pretty good, still numb and hungry, but I was only allowed to eat cold things last night.  We stopped at Culvers and I got a quadruple berry concrete and a pint of vanilla custard.  That was my dinner, and a fruit cup and a cinnamon roll that DH bought for me when he stopped at the drugstore to get my scripts. 

I'm on a ton of steroids and Lorcet and under strict orders not to let my head go below my heart, therefore no bending, lifting, nothing.  I asked if I could garden and he said as long as I can sit on the ground and do it, I'd be fine.  But I can't sit on the ground and do it.  Well I can, but I can't get up easily.  So when I garden, I use a garden stool, or just stand and bend over at the waist.  Neither of which I am allowed to do, and I've got 24 plants that want to get into the ground today.  Ok, its me that wants them in the ground TODAY, but since I can't bend, I think I'll take my rake down by the riverbank and plant seeds.  I don't have to bend over to do that, just rake some rows and scatter the seeds. 

But I don't know if I feel good enough to do even that, now that I am sitting down again.  Dr. Newman called and said I was to do nothing really today, to lay low, keep my head elevated, keep ahead of the pain with the steriods, advil and lorcet and just veg.  Ordinarily that isn't a problem, I am a couch potatoe by nature, but the SUN is shining today and it is already 49 degrees.

I'd like to take pictures this morning too before all the raindrops evaporate.  I saw some waterdrop pictures on flickr with a diamond on the drop and I want to figure out how to do that.  Do you use a star filter for that? 

Anyway I feel like shit.  And it is my own damn fault.    

I worked hard all weekend.  We all did.  Here, take a look at my garden!

my garden april 19th 2009

my garden april 19th 2009

new pink flowers

garden 002

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It was gray out when I took this picture above...but I still love the bokeh.

red and yellow dahlia

future bloomer

daff patch

daffodil

first dahlia

one missing petal

Dahlia

Ornamental Dahlia

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Dahlia bud

I plant my garden for photography