http://www.editundo.ca Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:20:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is pouring here.  Was hot and sunny all morning, so this is good for the gardens.  I must remember to shut off the irrigation system tonight though.  No need to use it for a few days after this downpour I think.  The house is really coming together now.  And ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1418 Tonight my fingers are sore - despite gardening gloves, I think a few callouses will develop on account of the massive amount of clover growing in my gardens, beside my gardens, on top of my gardens, beside my house, near the garage, and generally, anywhere it can lay a root ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1424 While the husband's away, the wife will play.  Out for a lovely dinner with a girlfriend, WALKED from house to restaurant, ordered a cold glass of rose, some bruschetta and a spinach salad, forgot left over bruschetta on table (I blame rose) and took a lovely walk.  It was the ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1422 Am loving the green in my backyard.  Seems like everything is in bloom.  Robins hopping around the grass, squirrels chirping, bees a'buzzin.  And at night, the fireflies are out.  I love this place!Today I had a visit from the Dundas 'Welcome Wagon'.  I saw the silver-haired lady at my door ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1426 http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1420 http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1416 Part of the fun of having a camera (some quality glass doesn't hurt either) is experiencing the seasons, objects, plants, whatever, on a level I relate to.  Seems to me these leaves are having a conversation. Finally without their fragrant lilly strands, foreground says to background something deeply personal.  Background truncates ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1414 If I were a honeybee I'd be all over this fine-looking flower Day one of bug-streaked windshield today.  It's been a few years since I've been here in Ontario to kick the summer off in buggy gut style.  I didn't miss May's black fly season.  Or the horse flies in July. ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1406 This shot reminds me of a wax encaustic piece I did in Inuvik at the Arts Festival in 2008.   That's where an artist has many pots of hot melty wax. Each pot of wax is colored with pigments of the artist's choice.  A brush applies the wax in ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1412 It was a windy day and I was focusing manually. Best way to ensure in-focus leaf hairs and the least amount of me-induced-movement in a shot is to hold my breath.  Seventeen shots of this branch later, I'm slightly blue in the lips and fuzzy in my brain...but not ... http://www.editundo.ca/?p=1410