Life on a Plant

Polka-dot Posy

• ~This is a polka-dot plant.. in bloom? It's a tiny flower and the only one on the whole big collection of varrigated leaves! Must be somehow, truly special. Googled it for a long time but I didn't find much in the way of good information. I also looked for more buds and could not find another single one? ~(:-_))-kfh

Paint Job

"Always look at the reflections... not the paint job by itself!"

~ This restoration is slightly pitted on the chrome and creates an old feel that antique furniture dealers look for. Origional finish value sky rockets price, for some collectors but not the case for old cars. I was experimenting with photo reflections but you would be very surprised at how marvelous this 1938 Buick rides.

~ Our roads have improved greatly.. todays ride quality is good... but some where in the spring of things, the mass of parts that move; the way we bounce and flex our frame-less rides__ older cars were built for their buyers and that's the secret "Why?". ~(:-_))-kfh

GOD/man

"The bells don't swing but they sure do ring!" ~(:-_))-kfh

Photo Dryer

This winter seed pod is beautiful!


















Just give it some swirl in the computer.
Trying a new faux stained glass frame and wha_la..ski!!!
My Sci-fi modality kicked me in the__ pants? ~(:-_))-kfh

Tomatos in Flower

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~Flowering yellow buds will do their instinctive best to make more or less seeds for next year's same. I hope to eat my fair share of red jucicy home-grown tomatoes; thick sliced on top of toasted white bread; melted down with 'some-gooey' cheese & included within that replete of God's grace__ a few times this August!

Begonia's Blush

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Knot's Refuge

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~At first I thought that the realtime histogram photo feature had little value__ if any. Now I think: contrast in equal balance is not the desired result but just the starting point for a unique photo expression. You can take this a bit far out... like I like to do? This shot's contrast is beyond full detail yet worth a digit stream, anyway.

Egocentricly yours, ~([:])-

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She's Got Legs...

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~"Behold this little beauty: looks so good__ as the Zz Top title suggests?" Fashion designers just love for their female models to have those kind of forever long legs. A'bet she can jump, too. I'll pass on a taste though... for now, I'm not that hungry!

Finger Winger

Blog|Jump-Clix "They are everywhere... but you need a magnifying glass, or even better: S-macro mode on your camera!" ~(:-_))-kfh

Lasting Light

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My Origional

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The Fly

1986 movie... & 20 years ago!

Old Floppy Roses

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~A rose is(n't just) a rose?... Cut those rose buds and bring them inside for you new bud vases! Save the peddles, too. The outer mixed color hybrid roses have no fragrance but the center floppy one... does! Most that man created after about 1885 lost their wonderful aroma. That makes the ones that still have the right genetic smells even more special... like that little imperfect darling in the middle! Humm? ~(:-_))-kfh
~ ps: The eggplant has big sharp thorns, too!

Up Side Down

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~If that's me (and it is!) that little white triangle is under my lower lip. The white cap lookin' thing is my beard... I think? You know what that means__ I am upsidedown. The focal plane is not quite in the right place but I'm going post up with it anyway! ~(:-_))kfh

Infer-read Secret

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~ Usually that strange center coloring indicates some kind of directional message to those little fly-by pollenators? I suspect there is lots more in a spectrum we don't see in... but I do not really know. The fun comes in for you to take a closer look and then make a guess___ I'm thinkin' like big long one-way pointers? So what do you think?

Courtyard Garden

~UPMC has a very special private garden across from the chapel. The bricks in the winding walkway have the names of so many people and the water garden has some really big goldfish. On this day, the pond was thawing quickly and the main doors were locked. I used a 45 degree angle very close to the glass and waited for one of those half frozen gold's to come up top for warmer water... never happened! The pretty fish were all staying tightly clustered__ right on the bottom.
~ I think they could see me. Thought I was a danger but next time I'll have... bread crumbs! ~(:-_))-kfh

Racetrack Eagle

~This most beautiful photo is also by my good friend Dave__ who I exercise with regularly. This most beautiful bird lives just a little South of the Datona Florida Racetrack. Dave had his camera with him while playing a vacation round of golf recently... so this is a free-standing telephoto & quick shot, which I really like!
~Those wide spaced Florida pine trees that give off such a delightful aroma also nest well for our national treasure of a bald eagle. These birds stack their new nests on top of last years old nest. These big preditors like to eat fish so this home must have the right sea-side combinations by the size of that nest! I can feel the coastal waters in that azere blue, cloudless of a back drop sky... just minuets as a bird flys South of old St. Augustine.
~I like to think that my Dad let me drive his new 1953 Ford on the beach right near this much younger tree. Back in the early days of Datona Beach auto racing, they raced on the hard sandy beach. I drove on that same beach for miles, sitting almost on top of my father... many times! We vacationed in St. Petersburg every Christmas back then and I don't think Dave knows about my little connection to his superb photo yet?
~This is one of those coinsidental things that makes me smile. Thanks Dave! It's another great photo, of your many. Oh, I forgot a another good part, Dave could hear the practice racecars roaring from where he stood to take this most memorable of digital photographs!

Frick & Frack

~Who are those two odd looking characters? Frick & Frack: "The Clack Brothers" did the voice-overs in my version of TurboTax this year. You know__ the automotive dudes on radio who take all those problem calls.

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~Now the problem here (two suckulent photos) is NOT ENOUGH ROCKS! They were looking good for my close-ups and as in recent transplants. I'm very sorry now that I did not get a good shot of the little chicks that appear on horizontal runners. That missing photo would explain the name much better... Hens & Chicks grow somewhat like strawberries do.
~ Oh well, neither above made it through the winter's cold and winds.

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for more detail.
"Where did I put that oro photo?"

That's Me!

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~These tiny little ants shine like they are made of glass? Look close...
you can see my head with sun cap!
~That is blue sky with clouds going past__ in the reflection on the back of that witty-bitty. "That's me!"

One true VINE

~Jo Anne likes to plant lilies. I like to keep them standing. Together we enjoy their presentations. Lily growers know more what all that entails. I "Consider the Lilies" from way back when my Grandmother first called the most prevelant wild Tiger lilies around these parts... "Out-house Lilies". They are all along the roads, starting around the third week in July. (Solstice) She was born during the late days of the "Black Republic" ~1882. Everyone sure enjoyed more of summer's weather trips to their outdoor toilets and imagine seeing long stem Tigers, of a one day wonder's surprise, waiting aside the carved moon's door. God knows how much.
~These four cropped windows were Ray's idea yet he had absolutely no idea of what it all ment to me. He used this up-down composite for the first page of introduction and proper dedications... after a il'more clip & clean-up.

Gallarida

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~It's not only what but how they share the light. Getting out of the plants vertical growth way and reaching in unison for the warmth of sun light: these gallarida share the same idea. The five bud runners are making the best of a tightly potted situation. Fanning out in a directed like manor and not all at once but sequenced to take full advantage of the limited opening for light. What a wonderful way to share and struggle for the opportunity to answer God's call... to seed and multiply. The dynamics of this flowers presentation is interwoven with enviormental signals that have served it's needs and other life forms for a time beyond our measure.

MoonRacer

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"The moon raced over the weather, slowly changing from clear skys to full overcast... I adjusted & kept shooting. The warm evening winds climbed until the partial cloud cover had over taken my camera learning experience, subject conditions & bright silver opportunity." ~(:-_))kfh

~More notes: The origional photo uploaded contained the eFlour D'lie ~ D'luna enlargment photo. I assume it will come down from blogger.com when my Casheblog is deleted. Then I changed it to the "switch photo enlargment" at Click-pix Photoblog. The one above shows the existing moon site conditions that I enjoyed for the four slit digipix insert . That weather front change moved in, the clouds racing over the full moon was magical and so wonderful... I hold it with me forever in pleasant memory!