Another Lensbaby shot, this time with the aperture wide open.
Category: Photography
Jeepers Creepers
The grounds crew keeps pulling out the English ivy, but it’s tenacious and keeps coming back. And now, with the added bonus of Virginia creeper. At least the Virginia Creeper isn’t destructive.
Brick Wall
This is another Lensbaby shot of the back wall of my building. Nothing special, but I love the texture of the brick. Also the fact that part of it’s actually in focus! Not as easy as you might think, with an old-style Lensbaby.
Wild Geranium & Raindrops
I lied. I do have a couple of garden photos that I took over the weekend.
Wild Geranium
Raindrops
Spring Sky
Dramatic sky is dramatic.
I should go out and take photos of the garden. The columbine has a couple of bloom spikes on it. (This is the confused one that didn’t grow the first year I planted from seed, but then decided to sprout last fall, right before the first cold snap.) The buttercups and wild geraniums are blooming. The sedum is growing like the weed I suspect it is, and the coral bells have zillions of fat buds. Stuff is happenin’, y’all! But I’m too lazy to go take photos right now.
Duct Tape
The TP dispenser in the 3E women’s bathroom broke a few months ago. Apparently, this is going to be a long-term solution.
Bad Henry
Lest there was any doubt about her eeevilness.
Feets! I was only able to get a couple of shots of her feet, because she kept reaching out to grab the camera with them.
Cemetery Stories
I usually don’t pay much attention to headstone inscriptions while I’m actually photographing them, aside from doing my best to make sure the text is as legible as possible. It’s not until I get home and have time to transcribe them that the stories they contain begin to unfold. This is an especially sad one.
L. E. Stump / Born July 5, 1861 / Died Oct. 11, 1862
E. F. Stump / Born Nov. 7, 1867 / Died Jan. 1868
M. Stump / Born Nov. 10, 1870 / Died Nov. 13, 1870
J. W. Stump / Born July 6, 1876 / Died Oct. 18, 1877
Infant / Born & Died / Nov. 15, 1872
Five children of Millie and Christopher Stump, all dead. One didn’t even live long enough to be named.
Spring Storms
It poured rain earlier this afternoon, and then everything was quiet for awhile. At sunset, I looked out the patio window and saw some amazing mammatus clouds to the northeast.
Rainy Day
It was grey and wet and gross today, which is seasonally appropriate, but kind of a drag after the gorgeous weather we’ve been having lately. And it’s supposed to stay like this for a while, too. The plants sure are enjoying it, even if I’m not.
Cable is fixed! It took trying three different DVRs before he found one that worked, and that one looks like it fell off the back of a truck, but I don’t care. Much. It is kind of irritating that one of the scratches is across the display, so some of the numbers are a little distorted. A minor irritation, sure, but it’s one of those things that will bug the crap out of me. Not as much as not having cable, though! And I didn’t, this morning. I got up and things had gone from bad to worse. Not only was the DVR not working, but all the stations were black screens. The tech said they’d pushed out a big update on Monday night, and I’m betting that’s what killed it.
All’s well now, though. Well, except for the fact that I lost all the programs I’d recorded. Hrmf.
red paper boat 