AN AUTUMN BOUTONNIÈRE

"An Autumn Boutonnière" (ss-3 10-15-19[35]) was just edited slightly from an old version of an even older pic of mine. (Technical Rant Alert! Skip to orange text at end if you're not interested ...) In this case, that number 35 in brackets does not indicate how many previous versions I've made, but is just saying how many screen shots that day I'd made of different pix of mine ... Go figure, I'm beginning to have quite a time of it ... The Windows 10 photos program slaps a number on at the end of the file name of a pic, no matter what it is I've done to it. I suppose once done working on a pic I could then modify it's title to suit me (get rid of these pesky numbers?). Eh! Something to think about. However, should I decide to do it, not only will I then have to remember to do it all the time (good luck at my age!) but how will I tell over time which sort of numbering is applicable? (Sequential versions of an individual pic, or overall total of that day's varied screen shots?) ROTFL! Why do I even care? As long as I can find a pic based on a file name is all that really matters. And, even more so -- ROTFLMAO -- the reason I'm doing so many screen shots is I don't have the file names for a great many of my old pix that I'm running across in my paper files and on the computer. So, I screen shot it, and it winds up with a new file name. Yep, duplication of images on my computer, but I've got ready access to the pix and maintained my sanity. In the past, I've gone through the craziness of going through computer folders of pix going back to 2008, amounting to pix in the thousands, hunting for some old pic. Ain't about to do that agin' if'n I kin possibly avoid it. Yikes! What a tirade for what must sound like a little thing ... Oh, and today's pic? I like that autumnal feel to it. It's closer to black and white in its earlier version, but I felt it needed some warming up today.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





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YOU CANNA HIDE FROM ME

"You Canna Hide From Me" (ss-3 10-15-19[32]) ... OK, OK, so I'm still punning on the name of this kind of flora (canna lilies, i.e., see yesterday's post). This ole lady's gotsta find her fun where she can! Anyway, as I've said here recently, I'm working with many old pix of mine I'm stumbling across while doing other sorts of pic and poem work. This is a very old photo. The canna stand it was taken in is now a sad reminder of its former self. Maybe it's just aged out, like me. But I suspect it's a lack of water and proper care. As I've also said here, some time ago, I'm all the more grateful to have pix of the stand when it was really quite something to behold.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





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CANNA STAND THE HEAT? GET OUTTA THE KITCHEN

Please forgive that title. Could not resist it. BTW,"Canna Stand the Heat? Get Outta the Kitchen" (ss-310-15-19[31]) is an old photo I've probably posted here years ago. I just renamed it today. (It would be a tremendous chore to find out what I originally named it. Besides, I get a chuckle out of this new name.) I've always liked this pic as I do many of my much older pix. So I've begun print-screening them to a photo file when I come across them on either my dreams&poetry blog or here, so that I can share them again. Maybe doing so will eventually inspire me to produce more interesting new pix and pic versions. If not, at least I can enjoy looking at them again. (Even as I resist picking at them to "improve" them. As I did at first with today's pic. But I stopped myself and went back to the pic in the print screen copy.)

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





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LOOKING AHEAD

"Looking Ahead" (ss-3 10-15-19[22]) is a very old pic of mine that I've always liked. I'd archived it a couple years back when my old computer just couldn't handle all the pix I had on it at the time. I now have all those archives on this newer computer. Not to mention I've been going through piles and piles (i.e., years and years worth) of paper copies of my dreams&poetry blog posts, which consist of a pic and a poem on each. (Most are being put in "the round file" now, but some are still worth saving, IMHO.) In this weeding out I'm coming across photos I'd plumb forgotten about. Today's being one of them. I may like it so much largely because I'm reminded of the day in that park in Solvang when I took the photo. One of the nicest days ever. As I just said to a friend about that day, all was right with the world.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





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ARCTIC ROSE

"Arctic Rose" (ss-2 10-15-19[3]) is an old pic, one I stumbled across in sorting through paper copies of my old dream poems with their accompanying pix from my dreams&poetry blog. I haven't done anything to this photo today. Except to make a print screen of it from my blog online (I'd have to go through hundreds of pix in my computer files to find the original pic) and then crop out just this pic itself. I'm so jazzed to have come across it. I rarely like a pic of mine these days as much as I like this one. Of course, my rooms are very chilly and my fingers nigh on to frozen today, so I may be heavily influenced by its color and title. :-)

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DEN OF THE RED FOX

"Den of the Red Fox" (7-6-09 3376ev5[3]) was just morphed from an already much fussed with very old pic of mine. Kinda, sorta like it. Wish it weren't so cropped down in size but that's the breaks. Cropping's how I got to a version I began to like and felt was worth editing at all. But I'm left with a little pic I can't make any larger -- all those tiny wonky boxes start showing up. I have it up on my windows homepage using the "Tile" option. It's OK, but I'd have much rather chosen "Fill" (fill the screen), to show the design more fully than "Tile" (screen filled with smallish versions) or "Center" (small single version) can. But "Fill" just fills the screen with wonky little boxes, as I'd thought it might.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****