The first dafodil of spring
A couple days ago I saw this blooming dafodil.
And this pretty robin.
I took this picture yesterday. Not surprisingly, the robin could not be found.
Would anyone like an icy Bud?
A couple days ago I saw this blooming dafodil.
And this pretty robin.
I took this picture yesterday. Not surprisingly, the robin could not be found.
Would anyone like an icy Bud?
Ben came home for the weekend, and he gave me a lesson on simple animation. This little clip was created with two photos of the little finch. But there are three frames that loop over and over. The third frame is a merging of the two separate photos. I would call it superimposing one photo on top of another, but Ben tells me that the correct terminology for this is extrapolation.
This animation of the little sparrow was made by Ben. It was the demonstration created by him for my lesson. If you look carefully at both of these animations, you will notice that the colors are not as vivid or sharp as my usual photographs. There is a good reason for that. When you save a photograph, you use a .jpg extension. “Jaypegs” are capable of displaying millions of colors! To convert the jpg’s into animation, you must change the extension fom .jpg to .gif. Gifs can only use the color safe pallete of 256 colors. Your browser will approximate the millions of colors from the original jpg, and by a process called dithering, pare down the photo’s colors. This unfortunately, can make the animated photos look a little grainy.
Kitty bling: could it be the newest fashion fad?
There are just so many exciting uses for milk jug rings!!!
I watched this little guy try to find a way to raid the bird feeder. Too bad, no bird seed for him today!
I get a lot of Gold Finches these days at the thistle feeder and I see signs that their golden color is starting to brighten.
Shake your tail feathers?
They are such pretty little birds.
I have a bird feeder that was difficult for me to fill because I needed a step stool to reach it. I redid the hanging wire on top ( I made it longer and stiffer) so I could slip it off the top of the hook with ease. As you can see, this little gold finch likes my redesigned wire much better too.
When I was a teenager, I went to a summer art show with my parents, and came across this limited print of a pen and ink drawing of a very messy room. Imagine my surprise and delight, when my parents bought this print, which is poster sized, and displayed it in our family room. My mom kept an extremely clean house, so it was not indicative of our ability to have an ordered home, (no underwear or dirty ashtrays on the floor) but there were similarities. Do you see those four harness table looms in the background? I had one of those, and lots of spools of yarn to go with it.
I‘ve up loaded this a second time because although this view of this picture is not as good as the first, you can click on this one for a much larger view.
∗ This picture now hangs in my niece Beth’s home. I gave it to her as a present. I did make a copy of it, which resides at my sister’s house. As I have no wall that’s quite right to hang it.
I made these copper earrings for my sister Rosemary’s birthday. They really aren’t this big. They measure an inch in length and 3/4 of an inch in width.
Of course I did have to try them on. It’s not easy to take a picture of your own ear! Today is my 51st birthday and Chris has taken the day off from work to spend it with me. His birthday is Friday! I’ll let you know what we did today.
The the weather was nice, and my cat Pigeon and I went for a walk.
Pigeon is an indoor/outdoor cat. When I go outside she likes to keep me company and we walk together.
I sometimes call her my Camouflage kitty because she blends into the scenery.
Rikki found a swathe of warm sunlight on the carpeting.
Oops, I think I woke him up.
Yawn stretch.