This and That: A Blog

 

 I mentioned Monday that I was fooling around with inverting color with some of my photos.  Inverting color is just flipping the colors to the other side of the color wheel from where they were.  I started with mono on a few.  Some turned out so stunning I kept at it far too long!  It's fun! Here are too many of the ones I liked best.  Sorry... Pinks and purples end up as green, and yellows blue. Black and white are inverted to sort of like negatives.  So are the ones with mostly sky. Guinevere looks less like a queen in snow, and more like a woman dressed in a fur hat and stole! Some photos take on a spooky look!  Ice looks nice.  I even used some artwork.  On much of it though it just looks like a painting with different color paints, and if you didn't see the original you wouldn't know.  This one, a  de Condamy print,  The Death, turned out the best.  I don't care for the fox hunt scene, but do love the antiqu...

 Christmas Trees are the theme this week for Thursday Postcard Hunt 's December theme of Christmas.   c.1910 I like this one a lot, even with, or all the moreso for, the printing being off.  c.1910 Swedish postcard c.1920 (I'll tell you one reason I prefer Microsoft Copilot to Google for translations.  Google saw the "Jul" and jumped to " Happy July !"  Copilot translated both words, " Happy Christmas !") For some newer postcards I have these German ones. I bought over 100 German Christmas postcards at St. Vincent de Paul recently.  Now, don't gasp... they were the 5¢ each ones!   Apparently, many of this sort came from boxed sets that were sold in German department stores in the '60s and '70s.   This has a textured front.   Next week is Tree Ornaments.    When the theme was first revealed I was concerned.  I had few Christmas postcards.  It's a lucky thing for me that St. Vincent de Paul got ...

  Skywatch Friday   There hasn't been that much rain, this parking lot just has a drainage problem.  It did make for a pretty picture!  Right after someone tore through in their minivan, ruining the mirror-like surface. Skies and autumn leaves from the dry part of the parking lot.  Have a nice weekend. Day #7 of NaBloPoMo

 I was given a butternut squash, which I turned into a "pumpkin" pie.  Did you know canned pumpkin isn't really pumpkin?   The USDA allows canned pumpkin to include any strain of squash from the Cucurbita genus that resembles pumpkin in flavor, color, and texture.  "Pumpkin" is actually just a cultural and culinary label, not botanical.   Mickey is the only dog I've had that didn't like pumpkin, others would eat raw pieces.  He also dislikes carrots.  It's not pretty, but pies don't need to be!  Yes, it's a homemade crust.  If it's one thing I've learned over the many years of crust making it's this, always use Crisco, never a store brand. The last Salad Bush cucumber became snail or slug food. They come and eat a little more each night.  Honeybees enjoy the prostrate rosemary... while a Common Checkered skipper prefers the black-eyed Susans. Borage is having another generation before the frost, which comes in October.  No...