My Life, my photography, my passions
I have been waiting for a beautiful sunny and breezy day to take a picture of this banner on my friends porch. It just shouts spring, and we finally had the perfect sunny spring day. So welcome spring!
Photoshop CS2 edits: It was such a sunny day and I over exposed the image, so I decreased the brightness, adjusted the contrast and cloned out the artifacts in the upper left corner that were distracting. It’s now a lot more striking. I love Photoshop!
Welcome to phase two of my Kyjen dog toy test, we first reviewed the This Hard Core FireHose dog toy made by Kyjen Dog Products was the toughest match for my insane Jack Russell. Can you see the green glow to his eyes? Yes, this fabric is the same kind used to make firehoses, tough, durable, but not exactly Brody tough. It did take a few hours to breach the end, totally wore him out and he had to take a rest.
He was bound and determined that no one was going to have his toy and he guarded it well. This small dog toy is tough though. It is tightly packed with fluff, and has a squeaker at both ends. Took several hours of diligent work to get the first one out, but because the fabric is so tough Brody couldn’t tear the rest to get down the narrow opening to the last squeaker.
Over twenty-four hours later the squeaker remained in the opposite end and just puzzled him. In a couple of days the Firehose toy did submit and give it up. You might ask what do I do with all these “dead” toys. I throw them in his basket, empty skins, chewed balls with holes and he does take them out one at a time to examine them. For example Brody still tosses his Real Squeaker Mat from Kyjen.
I’ll tell you about that one in the next edition of Brody’s Dog Toy Test.
My garden is starting to bloom, I’m so excited! These were the first daffodils of the season and I thought they deserved a special highlight. I’m going to see how many flowers I can take photographs of this season, most will probably not be in my yard, but around town, ahhh, I can smell the fragrance of lilacs already. So if anyone from Elmwood see’s me crouched around your bushes it’s just me and my photography addition.
High School track season has begun in Nebraska. My daughter missed the first meet due to the State Speech meet, so the Yutan relay was her first meet. She ran the 4 x 800 meter relay and the long distance medley, the 1200 meter leg. My son, a senior is also doing track this year, it’s a way to get in shape for the Marine Corps.
I love salads, and this one was topped with the first strawberries of the season. Nothing too special about the picture other than a clipping path and a drop shadow, the background was cluttered and distracting. Salad tasted good and I liked the colors. Just a quickie to catch up on my 365 Project.
