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That tribble is erm... trying to .... mount the Falcon... yer

 

The property is in full fruit at the moment. I've eaten my fill of carambola (star fruit) and now the guavas and avocados are in full swing.

These are five guavas, an orange the doesn't look ripe, but I assure you it is. What looks like a gourd is in fact an avocado. There are lots of different cultivars and this one is not only delicious, but also quite decorative. Only one is ripe so far.


This branch is normally way out of my 5' 7" reach. You can see that it's so heavy with avocados that it's almost touching the ground.

 

Wow. Jealous of all those avocados. I've been buying them constantly, but I hate it when the store has none that are ripe and I have to wait to eat them.

 

And that is but one limb of one tree. I have seven trees. I trade with the neighbors for other stuff. I don't have a quenepa tree and they take like a century to grow, so when the neighbors have quenepas, they bring them to me and then during avocado time, I take the avocados door to door. It's one of the really nice things about living in the country here. I love that the tiny little wizened centenarian ladies are delighted to see me with stuff for them, and they make you a cup of coffee (you have to drink it, you have to) and they invite you in. It's a dynamic that is sadly absent in modern times.

 

Wow, that fruit looks great Wrey! Wish I could grow that stuff here, but alas, I have to settle for the boring stuff. I do get to eat a lot of fresh figs from my grandparents' garden... absolutely delicious.

This was the harvest when I visited the garden this week. I intend to go again tomorrow- probably gonna bring back just as much fruit/veggies, if not more. Yay for summer and harvesting!

 

My hedgerow comes along slowly but surely, kinda' like my receding hairline! These particular crotons are hard to find here.

 

That is cool photography, Obsidian.

 

Thanks Ginger. Photography is a bug I've recently been bitten by. One of my friends just has to have the best of everything. He bought a new camera claiming his old one wasn't up to snuff, and offered me his old one. I've managed to take some interesting pics, enough to keep keep me hooked— I haven't the faintest idea why my friend had so little success with it. (At a guess, I suspect he never took the trouble to read the manual.)

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What's on fire there? I'm intrigued.

 

How do those turn into hedgerows, Wrey?

 

That, Ginger, was what I was doing on the night of the 11th of July. For the first time in many years, I felt safe enough to go and investigate the local bonfire. It was the fire that interested me, not the political goings-on. I waited until it was well lit, got in close, and started shooting. I nearly scorched the back of my forearms to get that shot. The shapes in the middle are transportation pallets.

 

To give some idea... the fence in the foreground is that of of my apartment building. Quite scary really.​

 

They look quite wee at the moment, but they grow quickly into large, bushy versions of themselves.

 

This is some old concept art I did for the novel I am writing right now. I only spent 6 months learning how to do digital art before I started writing, ever since I have had little to no time to work on my concept art anymore.
This is the main character in my novel.

 

@S.R Kenrickson.

Yup... I know how that goes. For a while there, I was letting writing take complete precedence over all my other interests and hobbies. Some of my hobbies have contributed immensely to my writing, so I make an effort to find the time to keep up with them.

I do think it's an interesting way to go about things, stimulating concept ideas using your art.

 

Little success? Or perhaps there were features his old camera lacked that were limiting him.

I've recently upgraded my own camera, not because I couldn't do things with my old camera, but because the new one does them faster and easier, with less manual tweaking. Also, the new one can function in even lower ambient life levels, and has a much higher pixel resolution. Plus it can shoot 1080p video and extract single frames without sacrificing image quality, allowing me to catch images from rapidly changing scenes that were hit-and-miss before.

I always push my cameras to their limits before I trade up. Perhaps your friend is the same way.

And my son is still getting one fine hand-me-down camera.

 

Honestly, Cog, I think it's more a case of a bad workman blaming his tools. He's completely astounded at some of the pics I've taken with that old camera, and still fails to produce decent ones with his new one. Like I said, he probably never read the manual. For example, when questioning me about blurriness when trying to get shots of his grandson playing, I said to change the shutter speed, and he was all "EH?...What's that?"

It's like someone sitting down to write, who knows their punctuation and grammar are woeful, but keep plowing away at it, without taking the time to fill the gaps in their knowledge.

 

"How can I ever write a great novel on this crappy old computer? I need a new one NOW to truly express my genius!"


/threadjack

 

Ah, I see. I didn't know other people (besides himself) find his photography less than effective.

Good equipment won't elevate a mediocre photographer above mediocrity. It will, however, help a good photographer make the most of the opportunities presented, and may make it possible to miss fewer opportunities as well.

By the way, those are some fine shots you've shared with us.

 

Ta, for that, Cog. Just like writing, it's something I've come to late on in life. Taking a nice pic is almost as satisfying a writing a good paragraph... almost.

@minstrel By that criteria, l must need a Macbook...my crappy p.c. has to be the only reason l haven't had a bestseller by now.

 

My pretty rose 'Alpine Sunset'. I just can't get enough of these colours.

 

That's a beautiful picture, jazzabel!

 

Thanks minstrel

 

Obsidian & Jazzabell, I really like the photography you posted. It's one hobby I want to start at some point, but right now I have way too many things on my plate...

The bonfires, in particular, are amazing.