This is another photo from my trip to the train underpass on 10th Street.
Category: Photography
Peony
Folks around here call these “PIE-nees.” There were three different colors I could have dug up, but they tend to attract ants, so I decided to leave them. They’re awfully pretty, though.
Columbine
I love columbine. There are about a million different varieties of it, and they’re all delicate and beautiful. I got a nice, big start of this one, with a bunch of buds on it. I’m hoping that transplanting it won’t send it into shock, because I’d like to see it bloom.
Golden Ragwort
Sunlight and Shadows
This azalea bush belongs to one of my cat sitting clients. I was out in their back yard this morning, feeding the birds and cleaning out the birdbath, and stopped to take a few photos.
Garden
I went out to Owen County this afternoon, to dig up plants. I got several varieties of lilies and irises, as well as a couple of columbine plants. The weather folks are threatening us with rain tonight, so I came straight home and got them (the plants, not the weather folks) into the ground.
Hopefully, these’ll do better than the seeds I planted. It was just too cool this spring for them to sprout, and the ones that did got chomped on by bugs and, I suspect, the local wee woodland critters.
Dump Truck
The truck has been broken down for years, and knowing the folks who own it, it will sit there, piled with trash, for years to come. On the bright side, it looks like they’ve picked up some of the ubiquitous tires that were lying around.
1UP
I’ve been meaning to stop and get a shot of this for a couple of months now, but it’s always either dark out or traffic is too heavy. I finally managed it this morning, though.
It started out as just two parachutes, which was interesting. Then the little Mario 1UP mushroom appeared (each 1UP mushroom gives you an extra life). Very cool.
Harriet’s New Duds
I’m don’t often buy Harriet new leashes or collars. She wore the same flat leather buckle collar for seven years, and would still be wearing it if the stitching hadn’t come loose. In the last year or so, I’ve bought her a few flat nylon collars (cammo, purple, and green), and she’s got a couple of martingale collars for leash walks.
I had a cat sitting job last week, though, and spent some of the money from that on a new collar for Harriet. I really like the color, as well as the braiding. She’s got an odd sized neck, so it 16″ collars are a little tight and 20″ collars are a little too long. This one is, a la Goldilocks, “just right.” And because of the braiding, I don’t have to worry about there not being enough holes.
RoseArt Metallic Gel Markers
Someone on Flickr asked me about the gel markers I use. They’re nothing fancy. I bought them in the kids’ school and art supply aisle at Target, for about US$5.00 a package. They’re fun, though, and they claim to be “archival,” but that’s such a nebulous term that I don’t even want to guess what they mean by it.
What’s neat about them is that they’re gel markers. The pigment is opaque and sits on top of the paper. They’re permanent and fast drying, but if you work quickly, they’re blendable. And like Pitt pens, the solvent in each fresh layer will melt previous layers, so if you want to blend an area that’s already dried, just apply more marker to it. The melting can make it tricky to build up layers, but once you get a feel for it, it’s not difficult.
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Left: dual tip
Center: chubbies
Right: single tip
The markers on the left and right have tips about the size of a regular Sharpie. The fine-line tip on the dual-tip markers is kind of useless, I think, because it clogs and dries out quickly. I’ve had the dual tip and chubbie sets for a few years now and they still work fine, so I’ve more than gotten my money’s worth.
red paper boat 