Gone to the Dog. And When She Says GO
Now wait a minute. Those of you who once snarked that Fragments had become “all Gandy all the time” have no paws to stand on. It’s been a while. And over the intervening years since Tsuga passed three years ago…
Category Photography
Lenses, Filters and Apps! Oh My!
Another day, another distraction–a good one, mind you, if you have Iphone images to tweak while waiting for the dentist. Or a shopping wife. Aviary was bought by Adobe last year. Their IOS image editing app–for the rest of November–offers…
Floyd County Air Space a Busy Place
So we have the usual fall pot-spotter-copters. And we have the new Mountain-Valley not-yet-a-reality pipeline right of way we’re-gonna-take-your-land copters. And we have once again the scary-as-heck AEP powerline-clearing blades of death I first wrote about in 2002. This isn’t much…
Bee Guides
So what’s with the fancy froo froo stripes and streaks and eyelashes on this nasturtium flower growing outside the back door? What’s up is “it pays to advertise.” Most of the features we notice and possibly admire as “pretty” in a…
Rage Against the Machine
Except when it is your friend. I’m burned out, frankly, with so many emails, so many “edit this” assignments, so many changes of hats from one minute to the next here in the full flower of my “golden years.” I’ve created…
Can’t Get There from Here
Well, you can, but it ain’t easy. No straight shot, that’s for sure. You might have heard of the crooked road. Here ’tis. I once counted the blind curves between the house and the hardtop east and west of us,…
Fountain of Youth
Want to live forever? Don’t drink from a water fountain in the waiting room of your doctor’s office. Â What were they thinking putting a contagion-collection contraption in the midst of so many microbes, free for sharing? [su_vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/103414485″] So I…
Earth and Sky
[su_vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/98659207″] The first month is free, so in thinking I have “forced” myself to shoot more video, I’ve got an out. But I hope I find the Vimeo Plus account for $60 a year worth the expense to my…
Webbery Revery
Conditions are just right for gathering a harvest of web images from the pasture: A fog hangs just above the grasses (soon to be mowed for hay), so there will be dew on the bowl-and-doily and orbweaver webs this morning.…
Spring Green 2014
So I set out, as I do this first week of May for the past ten years, to become immersed in fernery. Â A nearby glade is famously rich in pale spring greens of a half-dozen ferns and the lighting of…
Visual Aides: Near and Far
Bluebells Not Ringing Yet We’ve looked, but there is no sign yet of the Virginia Bluebells we transplanted 15 years ago. They remind us of Walnut Knob where we dug them up–my first Floyd County home out on the Parkway…
Lightroom, Darkroom
If you dig a hole at the edge of the ocean, the empty space will fill again with the next wave. If you free up some space in your day, week or month–by finally getting your taxes off to The…
Best Days of Our Lives
As often happens, I’ve gone another direction than I thought I might this morning on the Daily Blotter. And since I have put up more posts over these past snow-bound days than the average blog visitor can digest already, maybe…
Through A Glass, Darkly
Sometimes on this morning page, words come and image follows. Today at 5 a.m., the picture comes first–a spontaneous shot from my chair of the wood stove, the glass door cleaned on a warmish day for the first time in…