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Tag: tulips
Red, White & Wet
You can see more at http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/3/red-white-wet
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 Week: March 23rd — 29th
Last week’s daily photos found some nice surprises, especially with the kittens trying their paws at film photography. Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of March 23rd — 29th includes:
March 23rd: The kittens, especially Spunk, get into old-fashioned film photography — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/when-kittens-take-up-photography
March 24th: White tulips — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/yesterday-today
March 25th: Another personal record and a happy kitty — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/02-48-20-on-the-48th-climb
March 26th: Spunk tries paw, tooth and nail at developing film — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/spunk-does-film
March 27th: Morning Angel — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/angel-of-the-morning-angel
March 28th: Smoke and personal records — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/smokin
March 29th: Spunk has positive reviews of his negatives — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/positive-notes-on-negative-development
Broken Lens Breakdown
Along with the Canon F-1, I ended up with three lenses: a Canon EF 35-105mm (digital), a Canon EF 35-80mm with macro (digital) and a Canon FD 135mm (film). The lenses were described as “For parts or not working…” I dinked around with each lens — cleaned up contacts, loosened up things that seemed to tight, tightened up parts that seem too loose, cleaned the elements the best I could, and then I tried them out. I tested the 35-105mm and 35-80mm on a Canon 5D and a Canon 1Ds (both full frame digital bodies), and the 135mm on the Canon F-1 (35mm film body). There are two photos produced with each lens in this series. I believe I got the broken lenses working pretty well — can you guess which lens was used to produce each photo? “If you can’t be handsome, at least be handy” and produce beautiful photos!
New Blooms
Austrian Copper, Lady Banks, a yellow iris and a tulip with ram’s horns are some of our most recent blooms. Austrian Copper and Lady Banks are our first roses to bloom. Lady banks is a tiny rose.
Digging Ditches
I dug over 60 meters (about 180 feet) of ditches yesterday afternoon to make irrigating more efficient — we can irrigate every other Tuesday if there is water in the ditch. The areas that need to be watered most are furthest from the main canal, so the new ditches I dug will route the ditch water more directly to the end of the property that needs to be watered, by-passing the other areas. In past years, I’ve had real problems with only getting water about halfway to where I needed it before someone else took the water.
We have a larger variety of tulips blooming now — the tulips are not planted in areas that get irrigated (I water them with a drip system) so they are happy to bloom. The dry air doesn’t seem to bother them too much, but the hard frost makes them droop in the early morning hours until the sun warms them up, and they open again.
White Tulip
Open Wide and Say Spring!
Tulips basking in the full sun.
Off Center & Not Even 