Sunny Disposition

 So pretty!

Bunchy

I don't think those tiny flowers could be any closer together.

Burst of Pink

Such pretty flowers!

A Fly

 I spy with my little eye...

Cat on Crack

On another walkabout through our neighborhood, we came across this fierce predator hiding in the jungle.  We gave it a wide berth, as it was obviously high and extremely unpredictable.   

Garden Tender

Rare sighting of a gnome tending his garden.  

Nature

When you stumble upon a gummy bear in its native habitat enjoying a scenic vista.  

Honkers

More from the park.  Young goslings on land and older goslings in the pond.  Babies everywhere!

Duckies

When we weren't at the reunion, we spent some time wandering around the Alexandria area.  We found a tiny park with a big pond and there were ducklings and goslings everywhere!  I don't think I've ever seen so many babies in one place before.  And all different ages too. 

Reunion

This past weekend we went to a family reunion.  Somehow, I became the photographer for the group photo.  I'm not quite sure how that happened.  

Techie Corner

I took a few single-shot group photos, but I was unhappy with how small individual people were.  

I didn't have any time to plan for this "photo shoot."  I made a snap decision to take some fast and dirty group segment pictures, hoping to have enough to work with to put them all together in Photoshop.

I took several hours this evening to combine 7 images, by hand (no automation), into a pano in Photoshop.  It's hard cutting people apart and sticking them back together again!  And then I had to make the whole picture look believable.  I even had a family member email me one of their phone photos of me so that I could add myself to the group.  Ha!

The image in this blog is much smaller than the full-size version, but a 33MB file isn't really blog-friendly.

Deeply Mysterious

Seven days of irises, day 7.  From the neighborhood.  Such a beautifully rich color.

Fancy Dress

 Seven days of irises, day 6.   From the neighborhood.  So fancy!

Hello, Daddy O!

Seven days of irises, day 5.   From the neighborhood.  Dressed for the 1960s. 

Southern Belle

 Seven days of irises, day 4.   From the neighborhood.

Sunday Best

 Seven days of irises, day 3.   From the neighborhood.  So pretty – with its starched-white collar and elegant sleeves. 

Golden Beauty

Seven days of irises, day 2.   From the neighborhood.

Prim and Proper Purple

As I've been walking around the neighborhood gathering flower pictures, several of them have been of irises.  I was going to do an iris collage, but I like the pictures so much that I'm going to do 7 days of iris blogs instead.   

(I wish the pixel quality was as good online as it is when I'm looking at my computer.)

Royal Purple

Another from the neighborhood.  So lovely.

Happy Dog

 That ear, though.

Spiky Purple

Another from the neighborhood.

Spring Growth

 More from the neighborhood.

Bridal Wreath

Another from the neighborhood.

Red

Another from the neighborhood.

Petite Purple

Another neighborhood walk image.

Frosted Green

 Another plant that looks pretty, even without flowers.

Juicy Pink

 

Green

 

Happy

 Such a happy flower.

Just your Friendly Neighborhood Kitties

I see more and more homes in our neighborhood recycling their used/cracked/old pottery, china, dishware, and figurines in their flower beds and landscaping.  This particular home had oodles and oodles of cat figurines in their yard.  This is just a small sampling of the variety of kitties found there.  

I absolutely love the crazy kitty in the middle.  The one in the lower left, though.  That one is kind of creepy – especially those eyes!

Sunny Side Up

 They remind me of sunny-side-up eggs.