I have made up my dog meme pics, based on your suggestions, and a few from Facebook as well. I know which one is my favourite – which is yours? These are all free to share, wherever you like.
More suggestions welcome!
Nov23
Category Archives: Photography
Nov16
Can we Meme it? Yes We Can! Part One
I did something really cruel to my Akita, Neko, last week. But…just lookit her! Awwwww!
It’s only cruel ’cause she wanted to eat that pumpkin, not wear it. If you look closely, her left eye definitely has a look that says, ‘I will have my vengeance. In this life, or the next.’
The right eye is too squished by the pumpkin to look very threatening. It’s her wonky eye, anyway.
I adore this pic, and think it is hilarious. But. I am terrible at thinking up clever captions for photos. I thought this one could go viral if someone were cleverererer than I. Any takers? I do have the technology, just not the brain power.
For instance: this is of my previous meme attempts that failed, miserably:
Yeah, sorry.
This is the best I’ve been able to come up with so far for Neek’s pic:
I think my inherent geekiness gets in the way of being universally funny. Please help! If this is fun for y’all, I’ll be back with an even better pic for captioning.
Oct2
Hipstamatic leaves
I took a few shots on Saturday that I thought were good enough to share. I have to admit, for a plant-kinda-gal, I really am not sure what kind of tree these leaves came from. Sort of look like maple or sycamore, but I really don’t know.
What I do know is that those perfect circles of death cannot be good. I also know that every tree of this type in my whole town has this disease, whatever it is. I do like how the shamrock looks like grapes in the grass.
I feel a bit guilty for finding beauty in what is probably painful for my arboreal friends.
I love black and white photography. I have a colour shot nearly identical to the last one, but the leaves do not glow like they do here! Maybe I’m just shite at colour pics.
Sep10
Falling into Autumn
The growing season is winding down in Ireland now – for us, autumn officially starts at the beginning of August. My blueberry bushes believe it’s fall – their leaves are starting to turn. The raspberries believe it too; no more fruit to be had this year. The wild blackberries are amazingly prolific and in nearly full-fruit – any ideas on what I can do with them are more than welcome (I don’t have access to canning equipment). They are everywhere in Ireland, it’s crazy.
My cherry tomatoes are lush with fruit, but every last one is still bright green.
I also found two itty-bitty tomato plants growing out front, where I put down some of my home-made compost earlier in the year. The blighted ‘maters I had last year must have had a few viable seeds. Or maybe they are from the year before? I might dig them up and bring them inside just to see what happens. Mystery ‘maters!
Terrible pic (these are all from my iPhone this morning, and the sun doesn’t hit the back wall until late in the day). But! Can you see it? I have an ear of corn forming, finally! Of my five surviving cornstalks, this one went for gold first. I see one other that might be thinking of getting corny, too. I’m rather assuming that, like the tomatoes, they don’t have a hope in hell of ripening in time. Ah well, I still try.
My first gaillardia flower! Lovely colour for autumn, of course.
Second one, blurred, sorry! They are a bit slow to bloom, not like my rudbeckia…
This photo is weeks old. Every single rudbeckia bloom is still in place!
Today.
Of course there are some new ones.
Each Susan has her eye blackened in a slightly different way. What a terrible nickname. I’ll stick with rudbeckia – the word is much more fun to say, too.
Second sunflower! Hubby took this and has had some photoshop fun – our neighbour’s house isn’t quite that bright of an orange-red! I think we can forgive him, since the contrast is pretty damn cool.
Aug24
Ginormous lilies
I again have new blooms to share! These are more lilies of the Aldi set, and they took the longest to mature. Now that I see what they were working on, I understand why the long wait.
Last weekend, when I thought that one petal peeling off from the bottom of the bud meant they were close to blooming.
Wednesday, when I saw that they weren’t ready yet, and needed to change colour a bit more first.
Thursday, when those same two flower buds had gotten so huge I needed something to show scale – my big calloused man-hand will do…
…but those two didn’t compare to this bud. It was near to bursting with promises of beauty.
It hasn’t disappointed!
Same angle, sorry – but first pic was Friday and second was today.
Something better than my hand for scale. I promise I was nearly touching the petals with the measuring tape when hubby took this picture. Over 8 inches across, or around 21cm! Quite wonderful to have outside my front door.
Nearly forgot – early edit – this is one of the smaller ones that has also opened. I shouldn’t play favourites!
Aug21
Bloomin’ Late Post
Ugggh, I am incredibly far behind on posting photos of my most recent blooms.
This is the only Tigridia I’ll bother with. They’ve slowed down, but nearly every day there are one or two new ones, shrivelled by the time I get home from work, of course. I have no idea what I’m to do with dozens of photos of slightly different flowers.
You can really tell this was taken with the new SLR camera, wow! Here’s a new one, for Tom (and possibly his mother) – my giant red sunflower, from seed. This was day one that it opened. Day two the petals went droopy a bit, and now it is more of a rust colour, but the centre is getting larger and larger. It’s also not very giant. I can’t be arsed to measure it, but it’s in an 18 inch high pot and barely reaches my shoulder, and I’m 5ft 8in. Can’t be arsed to do that in metric, either – sorry! I’m under pressure to make dinner tonight…
Broad/fava beans. The pic doesn’t give scale – the long one was really, really long. But even it only had six beans inside – a lot of messing about for hardly any bean goodness. The dog loves the pods, so at least they didn’t go to waste.
Cosmos! Of all my seeds it seems only the white ones bloomed. This one has an interesting cupped petal…
…while this is the more traditional form that I’m familiar with.
More rose photos. These two bloomed together. I found it interesting the way they matured. Here, they look very similar.
A day or two later, here is the left bloom.
And this is the right. Both stunning and smell like a little bit of heaven.
Or my grandma.
Not too dissimilar.
The white roses aren’t as big as last year. It’s a climber, and has gotten really leggy. I think I’ll have to prune, and I’ve never done that. No sign of new growth on my lavender rose, but at least the leaves are all still there and I’ve kept the black spot away. Wonder should I try to move it?
I’ve saved my favourites for last, of course. My first dahlia, ever. From the Aldi set of bulbs and tubers. I have to say I’m impressed with the quality and variety Aldi had on offer. Most of the lilies, the dahlias, the Tigrida, the … Oh hell I’ve forgotten! The Babylon 5 spaceship-looking pineapple flowering thingie… Something like Euconomis. Anyhoo, all from Aldi.
Since I’ve never had a dahlia before, I didn’t expect them to be so sloooow to open. It’s been a week and this first bloom still isn’t open all the way.
Getting there! Seems we shoot it daily, it is ever changing. To be honest it is much further along today, but it’s dark out now.
My current favourite – more Aldi lilies.
What I like best about these is that the black has a raised texture as if tar has been spilt on the petals. I need to ask iDJ, with his superior photography skills, to try to capture the texture better. These blooms last a long time, too, but turn more orange red than dark red as they age.
Yes, I have more to come, but it’s my bedtime soon!
Aug5
MORE Tigridia
Wowsers, Penny!
The Tigridia bloom may only last a few hours, but they make up for it in sheer proliferation.
That’s hubby’s hand, to give you an idea of size. About the same as a star-gazer lily, or any of my black lilies.
iDJ getting artistic. He took all of these shots.
Every flower is a little bit unique.
Sometimes, the yellow ones are a bit wonky.
Sometimes, not.
The red/pink ones can be wonky, too.
But usually they aren’t.
I was disappointed at first, but the unceasing blooming has certainly made up for the short shelf life. There were more today, and there will be more again tomorrow, I see the buds that are ready to open.
Jul26
Timid Tigridia
Huh. I’m a bit bummed out. I had no idea that the Tigrida iDJ bought for me is a very, very short-lived bloom.
This was open when I went to work, at 9:30 am.
This one, too.
But by the time I got home, at around 6:50, the blooms were shrivelled and limp.
It seems that if I can’t get a photo within the 6 or so hours the blooms are open, I’m out of luck.
By the time I get home, they look like this.
How sad that I only get a few minutes with each amazingly beautiful flower.
Every one is unique – see that strange tongue running down the petal? I have no idea of what use that might be… A bee landing-strip, like an orchid? I’m sure I will never know, having them so far from their South American home. They are undeniably beautiful, I just wish I had more time to appreciate my ‘jaguar flowers.’
Jul20
And We’re off to Mayo in the Green, in the Green
Where the plants are glistening in the sun!
We’ll start off with a tried and true standard, the cornflower. I have them in many colours this year. There’s pink – very tiny blossoms.
A faded-blue-jean blue.
And, what was described as red.
They aren’t what I would describe as red. Oh well. I’ve planted one box in the red and blue cornflowers, with white cosmos. Red white blue, repeat. Nothing at all had bloomed in time for the 4th of July, so I can just hope I can get a decent photo for next year. None of the cosmos are blooming yet, except for one wonky looking flower I stuck in between my hostas. It has just four petals. I can’t embarrass the wee thing by taking a photo; it’s too sad.
How about some edible stuff? My first ripe raspberry. We ate it Friday morning. I shared. The second one that came ripe I ate all by myself. Shhhh.
Broad beans! I don’t have very many that are ready to eat. When I googled ‘when to harvest broad beans’ I found that you can eat the whole pod when they are young, or let them mature and then they become, through movie magic, fava beans. Shame I don’t like a nice chianti. Or a not-nice chianti. Or any kind of wine. But we did eat six pods on Thursday, which delayed our dinner quite a bit as I decided to cook them in the juice left over from the pork roast (with some extra garlic). I really liked the whole pod, when it was a younger and smaller one. Hubby had the oldest longest one, and I told him to open it up and just eat the beans, to see what that was like. He said it was a whole different taste. I ate his discarded pod. Nom! A bit fuzzy but there’s nothing like fresh veggies, especially when you’re not a huge veggie fan to begin with.
First garlic pulled. Now, this isn’t bought seed garlic, it’s whatever we got at Aldi or Tesco and it went off/started to grow, so I stuck it in the ground. Woot! Looks great.
Roses! These were taken last week, I think the bushes look even better now.
I trimmed off all the leaves that had black spot since these pics were taken.
Hope that helps. I paid for Rose Clear and have been using it, but they still haven’t looked that healthy.
The blooms look great! There are two bushes out front, but they look like four as the colours change between bud and bloom. Salmon becomes soft pink, red becomes a light fuchsia.
The damn white rose out back has bloomed at about 6.5 feet high. I can’t enjoy them way the hell up there! I think I’ll have to cut it back. It’s a climber, and seems dedicated to being a tree more than a bush.
My lavender rose bloomed finally. It’s gone now, so photos are all I have.
The plant is barely a foot tall, but looking good this year due to the feeding and Rose Clear. Fingers crossed I don’t have to worry that it is dead next spring!
Remember these? Euconmis. The packet was spot-on. Little weird pineapple space flowers. I watched this grow, and it amazed me daily. I’ve regretted that I didn’t take a photo a day of it.
But, very late in the game, there is another coming up! So I still have a chance to document.
I’ve saved the best for last. My first black Lilly has bloomed! It did so overnight. The first photo was at about 10 am.
This is around 4, not much change. But just look at it! Wow! iDJ really did an amazing job finding these beauties for me. Wow!
Jul14
Face off
How entirely sad. Cat not allowed out, dog annoying the shite out of us by acting like a cat (in, out, in, out – make up your mind!). Still love this because they are definitely blaming each other for their misery…. Or are they?
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