Local Resident Decorates His House

Moku Hanga makes this birdhouse look more like an artist painted flourishes around the entrance.  Actually, it's bird poop.  You can't fly a few branches away to take care of business?

Rain And Roses

After a long dry spell, some rain.

Okay, I know this one below isn't a rose but whatever it is, I love it!

First Day, Farmers Market

Not to rainy; not too sunny.  Our Westmoreland Farmers Market is back in business for another summer.  Hooray!

Snail Crossing

It was rainy and misty yesterday on our walk.  I was lucky to photograph this bronze colored snail just before Maggie scared it and it shrank into a much smaller posture.  Snapseed is the post processing app I find the most helpful and it made this little snail into a more fascinating image, I think.  With Snapseed I was able to crop and rotate, add a grunge layer, adjust white balance and levels, add sharpening, burn the shell hot-spot, and add vignetting plus a frame.  Whew!  A very handy app for lazy photographers like me who are coming to hate cranking up Photoshop for art making.  You can see my original photo below for comparison.

Ever Expectant

Miss Maggie, waiting on her rug for her breakfast.  Post in Snapseed, Etchings, and Phonto.

Hudson Icon

Found a 1940 Hudson Pickup truck parked in our neighborhood.  Quite rusty.  This is the emblem  above the bumper.  You can see trees reflecting in the pitted chrome.  I would love to have had a straighter on shot than this but another car was pulled up touching the Hudson's bumper so I had to settle for the long-arm reach-in shot.  Alas.  Still, with some post-production in Snapseed and close cropping, the photo turned out kind of beautiful.

Food Blogging

We had wonderful light inside the restaurant at The Farmer's Feast Cinco De Mayo Dinner last Sunday at 3 Square Grill restaurant.  The dishes, prepared by Chef Kathryn LaSusa Yeomans, were SO tasty and eye appealing they were destined for capturing on my iPhone.  

Above is a greens fritter with a spicy red sauce, radishes, and pickled jalapeño pepper with onion.

Here you see Kathryn's morel mushroom tamales along with Tamworth Heritage Pork smothered in green chilli mole sauce and sprinkled with elder flowers.  Yum, yum!!  Yum!