Early Spring flowers

 

The rabbits were gone the day after I had been shooting them!  :-)  I had to say it!   This is a zoomed shot of one of the bunnies sitting under the cedar tree.

One of the yellow croci with the background burned a bit.

close up of the red hellebore.  The flowers seldom show their tops but are always bowed down.

The white hellebore, close up.  The white ones show up far better than the red ones.

Today is a grey day..  I have not been walking or gardening for a couple of days. 

We were out to lunch at the Sour Pickle Cafe.  Cute little place with daily homemade soup.  Was delicious.  So now we have another place on our list of good lunch spots.

Megashot.net the new site is looking terrific.  Our photos really look good there.

Rabbits in the Garden, favicons

 

 Yesterday, I saw one of these rabbits in my garden, chowing down on one of my little shrubs.  I was amused by this rabbit hanging out with the cement rabbit.  Today, there were 2 rabbits!  OMG  they are multiplying!

I made another foccaccia bread today.  It was a tossup as to who got to the rosemary first... the rabbit or me.  Seriously, I don't know what I am going to do about this.  These cute rodents can be quite destructive in a garden.   I might need to get a trap, and see that they go to a happy home somewhere where the eagles roam.  People are so irresponsible with their pets!!  I would hate to have to throw the cement rabbit at them.

Yesterday I decided to make a favicon (the name supplied by Cyrus)  Its the tiny picture of a website that appears in your URL window or location bar.    So, I googled how to make this... followed instructions... and finally got one added to my old web site.  See the side panel for a link.  I now have the free program for changing bmp to ico files.  That program does some other interesting things, too.  So, I am happy to have it, rather than just another photoshop plugin.   oh man, I need several lives to do the things I want to do.  But check out my new favicon!        This little favicon works on all the pages!  Fun!   Otherwise, I am still working on getting the Garden Paths and Garden Art album finished.  Its coming along.  Further to that, I have made a button for my megashot.net page which you can see in the side panel, also.  

Besides the rabbits in the garden I have hellebores, yellow and light blue crocus, snowdrops, jasmine in bloom.   Photos to follow.

Ogden Point, Gardening, Megashot.net

 

On Sunday we walked from Ogden point, Pier A and B along the waterfront up to the pond and back.  In all about 2 miles.  The photo of the boat is a rusting old hulk called the Ocean Lady.  It arrived in our waters with a few Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.  I believe we have them all in Canada now.  I have not followed the story.
The next photo is the painted side of a pier that goes out quite a long way into the ocean.  There were scuba divers, an ocean otter, a helicopter landing,  a guitar player, and many more things happening along our walk.  I was using an ND filter on my camera and it worked well to get the water and sky colors. There were some great clouds and bits of sun.

The last photo is the greeting photo on The Honest Fox community, along with part of the front page of Megashot.net.   We are just in the process of moving the site to the new servers. It is soooo exciting.  Hopefully, we will be able to invite people soon.  But it is still in Beta.    It is the best place to spend time.  No eyeball searing white glare.  Unless, of course, you want that, then you may customize it on your page.  :-)

Yesterday I got some work done on a photo album for my old web page.  As soon as I am finished the album I will link it here.  It is garden paths and art.  I seem to be getting quite a few hits on my garden path posts on this blog, so I hope it might be of interest.  I make my photo albums with adobe photoshop and have many fiddly changes to make the album appear the way I want it to look.  If ever I get the gardening page albums done, I want to do an annual album of the garden for each year.  Things change over time... new beds, new plants, etc.

Today I spent about 3 hours in the garden and have the sore muscles to prove it.  I got quite a bit of spring cleaning done.  I raked the leaves off the back grass.  I put down grass seed on all the back and front grass paths.  Then I put down top dressing of compost on all the grass areas.  I used up 5 bags of compost and a bit of sand.   I clipped back the jackamani clematis, the simplicity rose, the minature rose at the back, and the Iceberg rose by the front door.   This does not take long to do, when I have the garden cleaning kept up to date.  Some of the perennials were cleaned up and a couple of the heathers, also.   I should get an overview photo of the front before the leaves fill out and the 'bones' of the garden disappear.