The water garden today

The water hawthorn is in bloom. This is zoomed into the digital zoom, so there is noise. Too bad about the evergreen needle caught in the leaves, but it gives you some idea of the size of the flower.

I was attempting to 'freeze' the water with long exposure in the TV mode. I really should have been in manual mode and setting both time and aperture. This is 1/6 sec at f 7.1. Using a tripod would help too.

There are at least two kinds of lichens on the plum tree.

The light came pouring down
One more for the sparkling waters series

Metrocascade has changed its format. I actually like it better this way. It makes the site into more of a news worthy read. I can still find gardening - where my blog appears, and other subjects as well. Good work, gentlemen -- it looks good.

I emptied 2 inches of water from the rain gauge today. The sun came out for a minute, but before I could jump into my boots and jacket, the sun was gone. I really do need to get more leaves off the grass again. The tree might have 1/3 of its leaves hanging on yet.

Tree Bark Texture

This is the bark of a tree I found when we were last up on Mount Tolmie. I have cropped out everything but the bark texture and turned it horizontally, saturated it just a bit. It is a naturally lovely colored bark on an evergreen tree. Wish I knew what it was.

We have had some cold weather recently. It seems I have been ever so busy lately. Trying to learn to shoot videos with my little camera. And learn how to edit them in Windows Movie Maker. I am not making too much progress. When I get a half decent one, I should like to load it to YouTube, I think. I need to learn a lot more about it yet, though.

I have almost finished my income tax. Horrible convoluted crap on the forms. So ridiculous.

The daffodils, arabis, anemones, hellebores, polyanthus and other flowers are making a lovely show in the garden despite the cold weather. My camillias will soon be finished.

I have loaded all the photos - 41 of them -- to the March grid. Next month's grid should be interesting. Its in a rather rough area of town though. I am not quite sure I want to be wandering around there by myself.

Cyrus's new photo upload site is looking better and better all the time. I might well be away when it comes on line though, it seems, from the way things are going. It IS a HUGE site, so it will take a bit of time to build it. Steve C. has some absolutely gorgeous photos from his last trip to China.