Knotty Leaf

This leaf is shot with the macro setting on my Canon S3 IS. I liked the knothole in the deck railing. The railing is actaully weathered wood, no blue stain. It just came out that way with a bit of 'curves' in photoshop.

It has been raining like crazy the last 3 days. I have emptied 2.5 plus, out of the rain gauge.

Today, on the prompting of an internet friend, I downloaded the latest version of Skype. There is a new feature where you can share screen views. It uses audio also. So, I hooked up my headphones for this exercise. I was scared to death of 1) ruining my skype and 2) doing voice. It all went really well, though! Amazing how you can teach an old dog new tricks. I really rather liked this except the headphones are a bit uncomfortable, and I have to crawl under my desk to plug them into the computer. But was fun.

This is going to make it much easier to exchange information regarding the new site. But only one person at a time gets to show the screen... both can talk, of course.

Gardening

I was out in the garden for 2 hours this afternoon. I moved a torch lily from by the tub in the front to the back in the corner of the woodland. These plants look so messy and get too big for the spot I had it I moved montebretias from by the roses to the spot by the tub . The montebretias were hanging over the little rock path. I could see the humming birds at them from the dining room window. So, I left a few of the plants that were farther back from the path. I raked more leaves and cleaned them off the rock path and off the rock plants. A piece of the hebe broke off and is stuck in front of the montebretias by the tub. Hopefully it will take root, as this is an excellent, evergreen spreading plant with some lovely bluish purple blossoms. I clipped back the iceberg rose that grows by the front door. Its nice to have the compost bin to dump all these clippings into. I moved, what I think might be a yellow water iris to the back of the pond. This iris is a strong growing plant if kept sufficiently moist. I leveled the tub and put the mermaid up higher on a stick from the wood pile. On Wednesday the garbage men took away my old broken compost bin... was good of them to take it.