The Week: April 13th — 19th

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 13th — April 19th:

April 13th: Ride of Spring — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ride-of-spring

April 14th: Cool car — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/mg-1600

April 15th: iFly — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ifly

April 16th: Sunset — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/sunset

April 17th: Annoying cat photos* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/anticipation

April 18th: Tunnel — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/tunnel

April 19th: Roadrunner on rails — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/rail-runner

*Wow only on set of cat photos this week!

Teagan just gave me the idea to add a poll so you can vote on a favorite post:

The Week: April 6th — April 12th

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 6th — April 12th:

April 6th: Annoying photos of “Lola, la la la la Lola…”* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/catzilla

April 7th: Lunar eclipse sequence with the Blood Moon — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/monday-bloody-monday

April 8th: Colorful dawn — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/morning-layers

April 9th: Flowers with more annoying cat photos* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/flora-kitty-fauna

April 10th: Lady Banks — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ladies-first

April 11th: Very NM — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/red-green

April 12th: And yet another annoying cat photo* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/inside-looking-up

*There are people who find blog posts with photos of cats to be extremely annoying, so I’m giving fair warning that the post contains cat photos.

The Birds & The Bees

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Baby Blue Grosbeak took his first flight out of the black bamboo and fluttered over to a sunflower. Daddy Blue Grosbeak hopped around near where baby had flown concerned about the paparazzo sneaking up on Baby Blue. Mama Blue Grosbeak fluttered around in the bamboo, but would not come out into the open. I got up close to Baby Blue, got some photos before he flew off into our giant Dr. Huey rose bush that made  his papa and mama very happy.

The temperatures on Saturday and Sunday were much cooler, only getting up to 80º F, so the birds and the bees were actively foraging on our abundance of plants that are either in bloom or going to seed.

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Day Lilies & Darkroom

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We are getting a nice variety of day lilies with interesting colors.

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Sink with faucet and shelves. The black square in the wall is a light tight exhaust fan.
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The enlarger will go on this area. The silver top is a portion of an old elevator door. Old elevator doors make great tops because they have solid cores, covered with an 1/8 inch thick brushed stainless steel. So even this 34 inch wide top weighs about 60 pounds. When the elevator door top is attach to the walls it makes a very stable surface.