More garden

[Dick Smith]

Forgot to mention earlier. PaulL sent me the 4x5 negative frame that surrounds it.

Thanks, Paul, I'm getting to them all, bit by slow.

Dick

[Jane Carter]

Had so much rain here in the NE, that some of our flowers are suffering. Our peonies all had to be staked up. The day lillies will be starting soon, just hope the monsoon stops in time. We had drought conditions last year, so we really can't complain, as the water was really needed.
Jane

[Susan S.]

Well it's mid-winter here, so I can't offer too much (apart from weeds - it's been too wet to weed the last couple of weeks)
What I have lowering this week you can see here
<http://www.pbase.com/susan_s/winter_garden>

(all pictures taken with a Canon G3)

Susan S.

[Ray]

Very vivid colors and beautifull flowers!

Ray

[Chuck Snyder]

Susan, terrific! Looks like you and the G3 make a great combination!

[Marty Landolt]

Oh how sweet! All your flowers are scrumptious. I'd send one I took this morning except I've just now begun studying up on OUTLOOK so don't know how you put in the word to click on.
Thanks for sharing yours with me.
Marty

[Pete D]

Wonder how those flowers would do in the 12 inches of rain we have had in
the past three days?... (Do they float?) All this and not even a
hurricane.

Pete

[Susan S.]

Thanks Chuck - but I had to take an awful lot of junk before getting some good-stuff - the autofocus is still proving a bit tricky - particulalry with macro shots. In the end I found switching to aperture priority and stopping the lens down to f8 where precise focus is slightly less important worked. Otherewise I'm finding that the blasted lens will always pick a leaf in the background rather than a petal to switch onto - it had terrible trouble with the white petals of the jonquils - I suppose not enough contrast for the AF to work out what it should be doing. I suppose I ought to try the focus bracketing and see if that is useful. So many options on this camera....and it usually takes me about three shots to work out the options I had it set on last time are not the ones I need now...

Susan S

[Barbara Brundage]

Hi, Pete. Don't feel too bad--it's raining everywhere in FL these days. I was talking to a friend of mine in Orlando this evening and in the background I could hear that his roommate kept yelling something about lobsters. He went to see what the fuss was, and there were crawfish roaming around their back yard, no doubt feeling right at home.

[Dick Smith]

Susan,

The violet is super. Great shots for "mid-winter".

Dick

[Barbara Brundage]

Pete, I hope you're not in the area that had the extra flooding from the dam floodgates that wouldn't open? Our paper was kind of vague about where exactly that was.

[Pete D]

Barbara,

Those reports were from the city I used to live in, Bradenton....Manatee
county. 40 miles north of here. Those people enjoy living by the river
......most of the time,.... but not now. The mouth of Manatee river is very
wide being only a few miles from the gulf. You have gone over that bridge
over the Manatee river I am sure. It is over a mile long. That river is
the gathering spot for many inland streams and creeks so the worst is yet to
come for those poor folks I think.

An oddity here in times like this is the Myakka River; the river will look
fine when it rains. Three days later the sun will be out but the river is
just beginning to "crest". Then the river dwellers start to scramble as
the inland waters that have gathered just east of the Interstate start
overflowing the banks of the river!

Pete

[Barbara Brundage]

Hi, Pete. Yes, I remember coming across 70 last summer after whatever that little nothing storm was and being amazed by the Myakka River, and that was over a week after it had passed. The Peace River was up, too, but nothing like that.

[Dick Smith]

Marty,

Hear it both ways. cle 'mat is and 'clem atis.

I learned it from my Mother with the MAT.

go figure, right.

Dick

[Grant Dixon]

I am a cle 'mat is type person but all my British friends are 'clem atis
types but I still know what they are saying!

Grant

[Leen Koper]

How about "virgin's (lady's) bower"?
That's what my dutch - English dictionary says . ;-)

I never learned so much as on this forum.
Even my english is improving.

Leen

[Jodi Frye]

Grant, i just borrowed a few more of your images to play with ....hope you are Ok with this. They are perfect for 'testers' ;))

[Jodi Frye]

Grant i just sent you one that i did with my styles and Shipley's channel mixer. Looks like one of those tacky mother's day cards ?? Na...geeze i hope it doesn't.

[Marty Landolt]

OK, I couldn't wait till I learned how to post here so I added some of my flowers to my second rendition of Challenge 20.
Hope someone looks at it ... I am due for another dose of encouragement.
Marty