Saturday, July 5, 2008

My Constant Gardeners


Since we moved into our current apartment a year and a half ago, I have been SO happy to have some space to garden on our balcony...not perfect for many reasons, but it's enough to have some green, leafy things and I've created some privacy partitioning between us and our neighbors.  ALAS, I've had a few plants die, but overall it's been successful (and rewarding).  Plus Querida and Fofinha like having a place to watch me garden, the extra spiders are fun for them, and they like to smell fresh cut flowers.  Here are pictures:




And then it grew...




and here are my constant gardeners...


Thursday, July 3, 2008

Digitizing the unique...

Since Polaroid is doing away with its popular instant films, lots of folks are paying homage to the Polaroid image (of which I've been a fan for long-time).

I posted several of my own at a Polaroid blog located at:
http://www.polaroidartshow.blogspot.com/
and will probably send more. All the more reason to digitize the object/images, since their shelf-life is only so many decades before the image fades into nothing.
I like hand-processed images like this one: