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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
My Friendly Greeter
This tree with purple blooms is located at our front gate. I love it! Anyone know its name?
No idea what that is, except that the green looks like some kind of juniper. But no juniper I know has flowers like that. Beautiful, whatever it is.
You were mentioning awhile back about grainy photos. They don't look grainy, but they are fogged. It looks almost like petroleum jelly smeared on the lens (which is a common portrait softening technique). It could even be a near-invisible fingerprint smear, a drop of sap from a tree, etc. which could be hard to detect at first. Think that could be the solution? I'll be surprised if it turns out to be software or your computer.
Could be water deposits inside the lens housing too, if the camera was dunked or in weather too long. But let's not go there...
Do you have another camera you could use to run a test batch through your software? It would eliminate one of the possibilities.
Anyway, I still like your pictures and good luck on solving the puzzle! I hope it's free.
Thank you Robin. Come to think of it, my teens were fooling around with the camera, and the fifteen-year-old put his sweaty hand over the camera. It is on the video! I've got him just where I want him!
Heh - that's funny about the lens. Last time I went to the Grand Canyon, my dog put her nose on my lens. I didn't realize there was a smudge 'til I got home and uploaded the pictures.
I've rather liked the soft, ethereal quality of your pictures though; it seems to work well with the bright floral colors, at least to me.
Seems like a challenge: never seen a tree quite like that, but at http://www.virtualplanttags.com/Trees&crit=9:1&pg=1 there are photos of about a hundred purple flowering trees. My choice-page 1, the Chastetree, or page 3, the Runnan Redbud.
I do not know the name but how neat for you to have this on your property.
We renamed the infamous junk drawer into the mysterious drawer as it really is a mystery to what you may find. Perhaps you should create a name for this greeter, with all the proper phylum to genus etc.
Neat post that has sparked me off to my own home school thoughts.
BTW I have a weird bug on my blog that we have identified(wrote post a few days ago) and now they call him *not dead fred* as he is still alive. But we are studying beetles and this is part of one of the boys experiments. I am totally grossed out but feign absolute interest...from a distance.
The plant in the picture is actually called a Tamarix Pink Cascade. The reason that I know that is because I planted it in the yard myself. P.S. I built the Mickey barn myself and the retaining wall was straight at one time :)
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No idea what that is, except that the green looks like some kind of juniper. But no juniper I know has flowers like that. Beautiful, whatever it is.
You were mentioning awhile back about grainy photos. They don't look grainy, but they are fogged. It looks almost like petroleum jelly smeared on the lens (which is a common portrait softening technique). It could even be a near-invisible fingerprint smear, a drop of sap from a tree, etc. which could be hard to detect at first. Think that could be the solution? I'll be surprised if it turns out to be software or your computer.
Could be water deposits inside the lens housing too, if the camera was dunked or in weather too long. But let's not go there...
Do you have another camera you could use to run a test batch through your software? It would eliminate one of the possibilities.
Anyway, I still like your pictures and good luck on solving the puzzle! I hope it's free.
Thank you Robin. Come to think of it, my teens were fooling around with the camera, and the fifteen-year-old put his sweaty hand over the camera. It is on the video! I've got him just where I want him!
It looks cool but I have no idea what it is.
Heh - that's funny about the lens. Last time I went to the Grand Canyon, my dog put her nose on my lens. I didn't realize there was a smudge 'til I got home and uploaded the pictures.
I've rather liked the soft, ethereal quality of your pictures though; it seems to work well with the bright floral colors, at least to me.
Seems like a challenge: never seen a tree quite like that, but at
http://www.virtualplanttags.com/Trees&crit=9:1&pg=1 there are photos of about a hundred purple flowering trees. My choice-page 1, the Chastetree, or page 3, the Runnan Redbud.
I do not know the name but how neat for you to have this on your property.
We renamed the infamous junk drawer into the mysterious drawer as it really is a mystery to what you may find. Perhaps you should create a name for this greeter, with all the proper phylum to genus etc.
Neat post that has sparked me off to my own home school thoughts.
BTW I have a weird bug on my blog that we have identified(wrote post a few days ago) and now they call him *not dead fred* as he is still alive. But we are studying beetles and this is part of one of the boys experiments. I am totally grossed out but feign absolute interest...from a distance.
Chastetree it shall be! People might have a little trouble believing it, though, with seven children running around on the property!
Well, that's a very nice greeter!
The plant in the picture is actually called a Tamarix Pink Cascade. The reason that I know that is because I planted it in the yard myself.
P.S. I built the Mickey barn myself and the retaining wall was straight at one time :)
goofy 5,
When did you live here? Are you the person we have to thank for all these wonderful trees?
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