Blog – Page 26 – Ellis Hollow

Bloom day grasses

Been too busy lately to do any scans. But I did grab some grass pix over the weekend and went through the usual manipulations with one that I usually do with scans.

The original image:

4-pane:

Kaleidoscope:

Mosaic:

Mosaic detail:

Chasing 70

That’s the name of a blog that my son Nate and his girlfriend Jo (at the helm, below right) are using to spin tales of their current adventure.

jo at the helm Last week, they bought a 1985 Hunter 25.5 sailboat out of Muskegon, Michigan, sailed/motored it across Lake Michigan on a thankfully calm day and are now wending their way through Illinois following the path of the looper community (albeit more than a few weeks behind the main surge) with the goal of reaching the Gulf and 70 F temps by Christmas.

Visit Chasing 70 if you’d like to hear the stories of rookies navigating locks and dam(n)s, hail and oh the dreadful wind and rain and other challenges. And if you know any ‘loopers’ who make the trek up the east coast in spring, travel the Great Lakes in summer, and return to the Gulf through the Mississippi or Tennessee in fall, please pass the link along. They might have some good tips for these young adventurers.

Bloom day scans

After hard frost, it was slim pickin’s.

oct 2012 bloom dday scans

Hard frost

Is it weird that this is one of my favorite days of the seasoon?

We’ve had a couple of browning-the-edges-of-the-tropicals frosts. But Friday night-Saturday morning we had the killer — more than 12 hours below freezing, bottoming out around 24F. Gave me plenty of work to do this weekend composting blackened flesh from containers and other fragile plants in the ground.

Here are some pix from Saturday morning …

Frosted dahlia.