A slightly different "around a block" walk.... Go to the end of our block, and walk around the next block.
Doesn't this house have a nice container garden? (I'm glad I don't have to water it!)
I had never noticed before -- they have a ground level deck, and a second level one, too.
Speaking of second-level outdoor spaces..... I like the lattice.....
This is the same white house that we saw a couple of days ago, with two junipers just like this one in front of the porch. They also have a second-level outdoor space, in back.
Here's one of the junipers in front.
The green looks nice on the gray.
More black-eyed susans.
So have you been wondering, given that this is a college town and all, where are all the students?
It is a conscious choice, here, to focus on the positive.
But sometimes I just feel dishonest if I don't show some ... reality.
Of course there are students all around here, and lots of them behave rather badly at least part of the time.
When I show you the nice bits, right around here, I probably have my back to this. Nothing terrible here, but ........ nothing to raise the spirits.
The furniture seems to have all gone, leaving behind only the exotic sculpted individual.
I could hear this very clearly from my office, with the window open. I'm sure it was necessary to get the work done, but I surely hate listening to chainsaws and chipper/shredders.......
Ok, we'll try to rise above the noise -- I thought it was sort of cool that the camera caught the chips flying into the truck....
Walking away from the noise.
Here's a palate cleanser, before we go back in to work.
I almost always take three shots in a row of anything I find interesting, and then throw away two.
This time all three were clear, but something appeared in the second that wasn't visible in the first.....
The bee was gone from the third in this sequence, but the ant was still there.
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Isn't it amazing how the bee and the ant animate that photo, to it being spectacular?
For years I avoided drawing figures in my 'landscapes'. Someone mentioned that my art looked 'lonesome'. I started adding animals, and I was amazed at how much more interesting my drawings became.
Adding "action" of some sort was the key.
They do make a big difference.
I find People, as a group, so annoying that I usually prefer that they not be in my pics, if at all possible. And if they are, I prefer to watercolor (or something) the pics, so the figures are more abstract than representative....
But animals, that's a whole nother story.........
Or fairies...... :-)
I have an aversion to people and mechanical things in my art.
And I fully understand the 'watercolor' technique to abstratc them. It's a great compromise for allowing 'action' without the detail.
Animals and fairies are the only 'people' I like to include ;)
Hope your animal fairies are doing well...
I have an aversion to people as a group, in life as well as in my pics (she said, carefully arranging her leg so it's not resting on its random-kid-crashed-into-me-with-bicycle bruise!).
Individuals are often just fine, but en masse? No. Random strangers? I'll pass, thanks.
I hear you on the animals and fairies. :-) (Pups doing as well as could be expected, I guess, given their issues. Thanks for asking.)
I work at avoiding people in pics, but in some settings, that's really hard. So then I at least depersonalize them by filtering....
I took a pic of two women on the sidewalk downtown last week, because I liked the colors (black, with red and hot pink). I thought maybe I could branch out and think it was ok to take pics of people.
I discovered when I looked at the pics at home that the red one was clearly lecturing the pink one. I don't think she was angry, just in serious pedagogical mode.
But their postures and expressions matched their colors (red emphatically telling pink), and the whole situation just made me so uncomfortable that I didn't like to post the pic, even after some serious watercoloring.
They were still totally recognizable to anyone who knew them, and I didn't like to publish Pink taking an earful from Red (who didn't have a very pleasant expression on her face in the pic with the best gestures)......
So nevermind, I'll keep my camera on the flowers, as much as possible!
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