A COVEY OF SPRING MISSiLES

"A Covey of Spring Missiles" (4-13-18 024v2) was just taken two days ago and fussed with this morning. Not exactly over the moon about it (some missiles don't go very far, do they?), but I'm so fond of these blossoms and their rather phallic early stage shapes I'm posting the pic anyway. I also really enjoy their fully open state, like bright colored trumpets in the sunlight. In fact, when I walked back this same way maybe an hour later that largest blossom had begun to unfurl its trumpet petal shape. I'd've taken a shot but the deepening shadows made even the slim chance of it coming out highly doubtful. And it was an extremely high-wind day ... hey, you try to keep your walker and baseball cap from blowing away as you balance precariously on arthritic knees, and all while trying to assess, frame, and snap a pic! Who's an octopus?

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IT'S SHADOWS THAT CREATE FORM

"It's Shadows That Create Form" (12-30-17 009v12b) was just fussed with a little more from a several months old version of a pic taken the end of last year. I'm stumbling across lots of "unfinished" (sic: not yet endlessly fudged with :-D) pix, as I'm having to get back to seriously deleting and archiving photos. I blush to admit I have 13,400 pix on this poor computer. Yeah, it's been suggested many times I put them all on a thumb drive. For various reasons, that doesn't work for me. (I do have an external drive, to which I back up all text and pix, once a month, however.) Anyway, today's pic was clearly heavily fudged with. And I have more versions of it's original source photo than I care to admit to (blush).

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SPRING AMBLES ALONG

"Spring Ambles Along" (4-8-18 014v2) is the first new pic I've posted here in a while, taken a couple of days ago, and just fussed at this morning. I've posted many other pix of this vine, in various seasons and weather and time of day. It grows along a long wall I pass regularly on my long walks and always grabs my attention ... whether I take out my camera or not. And has done so for the ten years I've been living here in CA. I didn't do a lot to this pic. Some sharpening, but also a small amount of blurring, believe it or not. Some increase of color contrast, and a bit of cropping, also. I initially attempted to change the cast of the light in this pic (i.e., the ever so vague, very pale, almost not green at all, glare, if you will) but this is how the wall looked in that mid-day light. So I've left it. And (need I even say it) I've already got other versions percolating ... rather "artsy" (i.e., not fully realistic) and I'm sure I'll develop some that are not at all representational. BTW, it looks like I'm going to be able to take more regular walks again. If I discipline myself not to go on them too frequently in any one week at first, but build up slowly again.

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