Taking a break for much of April

Posting will be a sparse for the next three weeks. Working on some film projects for pin hole day.

Mission Santa Barbara: Old Gate

Mission Santa Barbara: Crypt door detail

Mission Santa Barbara: 2

Mission Santa Barbara

Let sleeping cats lie

Monster Plant Get's a New Home

The Castor Bean Plant was repotted.  Had a wonderful root system already:

Zucchini Sprout First

For the weekend Update, the Zucchini in the second tray were the first plants to sprout on Wednesday:

And how they looked just this morning:

Winter Guest?

I was clearing dead plants and leaves from the yard last weekend and found this burrow:

Watched for a few days and there was no new activity.  It later collapsed in the rain.  So it seems that some furry critter spent the winter hibernating in my flower beds.  Ruler for scale.  Any ideas who this may have been?

Happy First Day of Spring!

Panoramic

This is my first test of our Panoramic Horizon camera. It captures a panorama by sweeping the lens in an arc along the horizontal. The photo was taken in my Mother's back yard in CA. Notice the distorted lines of the trellis. I haven't quite figured this camera out. 

Namesake

Longs Peak in winter. Taken during our last storm.

Boat house in the snow

Weekend Gardening Update

The weather has been in the 70's.  But we locals know that it's never safe to plant outdoors before Mother's Day.

So my seedling are safe indoors.  Adding Squash & Asparagus to the new planter:

So far giving them 24 hours of light......has produce one "mutant" plant:

Sprouting a full two weeks after the other plants and growing at an enormous rate.  My Castor Bean Plant will be given a new home tomorrow.

Empty Benches

Empty Court

Icy cove

Foot steps

Frozen tail pipe

Tomatoes & Peppers, Close-Up

A closer look at our baby plants:

And Below, the autofocus didn't.  Or rather it focussed on the outside of the plastic dome, rather than on the plants.  But still interesting.

Garden Updates

Making Progress:

This is what our indoor garden looked like earlier this week.  Tomorrow a real-time update. Hint:  it's grown a lot in a week!

A stormy Longs Peak

Snow covered lake in IR

The IR seems to pick up the interesting crystal structure on the surface of the lake last weekend. 

Table Top Greenhouse

We got a table top green house this year that comes with a grow light. It has been successful environment for this years tomatoes.

Airport Art

Some public art from the San Diego Airport terminal. Taken Thanksgiving of 2014.

Garden Prep Part 2

Next, find a warm window inside.  I placed this above  heating vent to keep the soil warm:

Cover and install the light............

A few days after my careful preparation of the Nanodome, this is what my gardening prep area looked like: