Late Sunflowers

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This whiteboard was basically unusable for a couple years because someone drew on it with permanent marker, so I decided we had nothing to lose and took a chance with a strong graffiti remover and some serious elbow grease...got it pretty decent and at least usable. The next day this message was written on it. Awww. It's nice to be appreciated. I hope it can be erased. lol

Jez loves her pears

Tomatoes

The tomatoes in the garden this year took a fatal turn for the worst, as what i believe was a blight (early AND late from what I've read) caused them to all rot on the vine. In some cases the plants themselves died earlier this summer. I thought it was only because of poor soil, as it's a new garden and some parts of the garden had huge trees growing the previous year.
Better luck next summer (I hope).

Cosmos

Brockton East shooting from Home Depot parking lot in a light rain.

It does me no good to post such a poor quality photo, but alas, I am in another lull. So I will explain this one in hopes of making it more interesting:
I was in a window, probably 50 feet away and it was windy. I noticed the windmill was spinning like crazy so I wanted to use a slow shutter speed to blur the motion. Well, even though it was overcast I couldn't get slow enough shutter speed for the desired effect, but slow enough to make a crappy picture. Also, a tree branch between me and the subject threw off the focus I think.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

So why did I post it. Because it's the best one I took on 9/25 *pats self on back*

No it's not the same picture from the other day...same plant though...better picture I think.

11:09 PM ~ ISO 800, f2.71, shutter speed 2 sec., post: straightened, resized and sharpened (always sharpen after resizing)

Same picture, enhanced...increased color saturation, brightness, contrast, straightened, resized, unsharp mask and sharpened. and possibly some other stuff I don't remember doing, as I saw fit.

265 ~ Only 100 more to go!

One of my first attempts at a dreamcatcher, hanging in the doorway of my living room.

You know who, eating pears the tree dropped. Mmmm.

Sage

The sage this season was a little slow starting and I wondered if it was going to make it, but it seems to have done ok. I don't think it flowered though. I'll probably cut it way back after frost.

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Saw this sign on the way to an investigation tonight. Don't know why it struck me funny.