Category: Meta

Catching up with Kris at Blithwold this morning, I remembered I never got around to trying out the online TiltShiftmaker. (Long story short: Makes your uploaded images look like close-up of miniatures. Hat tip to Steve Silk for bringing this to the attention of the garden blogosphere.) Neat for larger views with lots of depth, especially high-angle shots.  Not so good on close-ups.  Will have to fiddle with it some more soon.

Click images for larger views.

Marcia told me she plugged my blog in class today. The latest posts are mostly music and politics. But if you drill down or click on the categories in the sidebar, you’ll find lots of gardening stuff.

Also, be sure to explore other gardening blogs (some stay on topic better than I do) in the blogroll.

Happy surfing.

Some light Sunday reading from The Atlantic as we prepare to go out into the world and tackle 2009: Future Schlock, from the always irreverent P.J. O’Rourke. (I seldom agree with his politics. But he’s always entertaining.)

Wherein O’Rourke and family visit Disney’s The Innoventions Dream Home (that’s the 1957 version at right) and discover the future ain’t what it used to be.

Bruce Handy, writing in Time … went on, “It’s not a novel observation to point out that our culture has become increasingly backward looking.”

Well, given the future envisioned in Disney’s House of the Future, who can blame us for looking the other way?

Disney’s Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative. This isn’t the fault of the “Disney culture”; it is the fault of our culture. We seem to have entered a deeply unimaginative era.

But please. Don’t let it harsh your new year’s buzz.

Benjamin over at The Deep Middle WAS INSULTED by this snarky video game ad, implying that gardening is boring.

I, for one, take pride in being a gardener — and revel in gardening’s little secret that something that seems so boring to the outside world (adults as well as kids) is really so exciting.

Thanks Benjamin. Huge hat tip.