110 posts tagged “flowers”
I felt like an antique today, so I made a photo of one of my flowers look old. I worked yesterday morning, got home at 2:00 and left at 3:00 to go to our son's house for Thanksgiving Dinner. I had been feeling out of sorts since Tuesday, but just thought I was tired. We hadn't much more than finished eating when I began to feel bad, still just thinking I was tired since I had gotten up early, etc. We just barely made it home before I had to make a bee line for the bathroom. I guess I must have picked up a GI tract bug last week from the grandkids. I promptly took myself off to bed, but never got to sleep more than two hours before it was back to the bathroom. Most of the time, it was only an hour.
Today wasn't too much better. I got down a piece of toast for breakfast, but the yogurt and banana that I ate for lunch had a war party. Still I was able to do quite a bit of cooking. We are going to my daughter's tomorrow for a second turkey dinner. I didn't have to bring anything on Thursday, but I'm bringing several dishes tomorrow. My cooking today included blueberry applesauce, applesauce salad, cheesecake, mashed sweet potatoes, and custard pie. The first four things are going with us. The custard pie is staying here. The recipe I use is straight out of Betty Crocker. I'll try to post recipes for the rest yet this evening. By dinner time, I was running out of steam, so I made super easy creamed tuna and peas using a can of mushroom soup. I ate mine with some brown rice, and so far, none of it has come back up.
Today was a beautiful day, but I didn't go outside. I should have. We won't have too many more days like today.
I took time to make a cake this morning using one of the new kits we received yesterday. This is one of the kits for Princess Tiana. Our store is in a culturally diverse area, so it will be interesting to see how well these kits sell.
I usually try to avoid doing cakes in whipped icing, especially chocolate whipped. This order called for lots of flowers. I didn't leave too much open space!
Here's a close-up of the border of flowers.
I thought we had most of the Friday cakes done when I went home yesterday, but I spent most of the day today working on cakes for today. I only had time to make two cakes for tomorrow. We really needed a third person doing cakes today.
I left work an hour early today because I had already worked four days this week. I got home before the sun went down for the first time in ages!
I made homemade chicken noodle soup for dinner. I hit hubby's with the blender. Worked great. Much healthier than the creamy soups I have been making. This whole soft food diet is going to take some getting used to.
I go to work late tomorrow and Sunday. I'll have to try to get something else made before I leave in the morning. I baked a custard pie tonight while the soup was cooking.
We will have lots of deer hunters here tomorrow. May not be able to get to the computer!
This is the only fall color I have in my yard. This bush is about 30 years old, but we give it "haircuts" every year or two to keep it from growing too big.
Off to the west of our house, there is a creek with bluffs that get some color in the trees. They are mostly hardwoods, a lot of oaks, so they don't have the brilliant colors that softwoods do. In this shot, the sun was peaking through the clouds in just the right place to highlight the trees.
Even though we have had some cold weather, down to 28 on Sunday morning, I still have a few petunias hanging on. Of course I had to edit this one. I just love the watercolor effect. I intensified the color, too.
The dogs are off for a walk, so I'm going to sneak outside and see if I can find anything to take pictures of and/or dig up in the flower bed. I know I had a couple of plants that I meant to bring in. It may be too late!
Since I'm never one to leave well enough alone, here is one of the dahlias edited with a watercolor filter.
Here's watercolor plus film grain. I used to think I wouldn't like effects like this, but they are growing on me.
Need to go work on dinner. I'm going to make a beef roast, mashed pototoes, fresh green beans, and German chocolate cake. The cake is coming straight out of a box and the icing is coming right out of a can, but it will still taste good. If it was any better, I would eat the whole thing a one setting! Toodles.
I didn't take any cake pictures yesterday. Mostly cakes for orders. A couple of them were cute, but I was by myself so I was busy.
I'm home today and it is rainy and windy, so I'm not in the mood to go out and take any photos, so I'm playing around with my last set of dahlia photos. Did a little cropping and color, brightness, and contrast adjustment. I'll see if you can tell the difference.
I think I like this one best. Somehow it was in the shade, and since I only have one bloom, one of the dogs must have been helping me out!
I've got company coming this weekend, so I must do some housecleaning today. Boo! Hiss!
Finally picked up my new camera on Saturday night. Took it with me on Sunday so I could read the book, see what it could do, only to discover that I had forgotten the battery! So it was this afternoon before I got camera and battery together to see what would happen. Since I had just taken so dahlia photos on Friday, I went back out this evening to try again. We had a lot of wind on Monday that blew dead leaves into the flower bed.
I didn't get any sewing done today, but I did do a lot of laundry, paperwork, etc. I even did a bit of housecleaning! It's back to work tomorrow. Toodles!
The dahlias that I planted in the spring have had a tough life this summer. The dogs kept running through them and breaking them off. I noticed a week or so ago that they were finally getting some buds on them, then I kind of forgot about them. For some reason, I happened to look out the window this evening and wondered what the spot of color was at the edge of the flower bed, so I grabbed my camera and went out to investigate. It was the best surprise that I have ever gotten! A huge beautiful dahlia bloom. It is laying on the ground because I didn't stake it. Hope it survives long enough for me to get a few more pictures.
I tryed a new recipe for dinner tonight. Wish I had remember to take a picture. I made rosemary roasted chicken with onions. Yummmmmm! I also fixed fresh broccoli and cauliflower with an onion cream sauce, and boiled potatoes.
After dinner, I went out to plant some tulips. Rather than just stick them in wherever, I took the potato fork and dug up everything in a three by four foot area. I got a bucket full of mostly iris. I planted all the tulips in one big group. Hope they come up. The dogs had to help me plant them. I hope they don't decide to dig them all up!
Then I went downstairs and finished the top I was working on for my granddaughter, and cut out another one. Got the yoke stitched together, and the front gathered and stitched. Hope I can finish it tomorrow. I feel like I was pretty productive today. Not having to deal with allergies all day really helps. Here's to a great weekend!
I didn't take my camera out of it's case today, so I am going to have to recycle some shots. That shouldn't be a problem, since I usually take 30 or so each time I go out. Let's see what I can find in the library.
I had forgotten that I had these pink petunias last year. They still look pretty good. Most of the ones I have this year are already over the hill.
Got caught up on my paperwork and laundry today. Also put some photos back in my photo albums that I had pulled out over the years for one project or another. That was a major undertaking! Now I just need to get some labels on the backs of the albums so I know what years each one covers. I looked for baby pictures of my oldest granddaughter, but didn't find hardly any. Guess I was too busy to take many. Cleaned off my sewing table, so now I'm ready to tackle another project. I've been away from my sewing for awhile now, but I'm ready to give it a go again.
One of my photos of the nightshade flower was accepted by iStock today. Yeah!
It was so nice outside today, and I was home for a change, so I went outside with my camera. Usually the dogs are so wild that I can't get good shots of them, but today I sat down on the grass and waited until the silliness wore off and was able to get some nice shots. This is Paya.
Went back out with my camera this evening, too. This is one of the mums I planted last week. I love the colors.
It's back to work tomorrow. I was lazy today. Played with my camera, uploaded some pictures, paid some bills, etc. Think I'll go watch a little TV until bedtime. Toodles!
I had to take some more photos of my petunias. These are in a hanging basket on my back porch. They look so much more dramatic with the watercolor filter applied.
The pink one in the birdbath still looks pretty good, too, especially when edited to look like a watercolor painting.
The wagon out in front of the house is suffering from serious neglect, but I rather like the wild look. All the vines, etc. have come up as volunteers.
You can tell by the walnut tree that summer is almost over. Most of the leaves have fallen off already and the nuts are starting to fall. This tree, in our yard, is loaded with nuts this year. Plenty of food for the squirrels. The nuts should be really good, too, since we had plenty of rain.
It was late this evening when I went outside with my camera. The sun was already getting low in the sky. Our sycamore trees had a lot of these seed pods on them this year. They are really weird looking.
I made chicken enchiladas for dinner tonight. Yum, yum. It is one of my favorite chicken dishes. We still have some fresh green beans from our pole beans, and a few tomatoes. I ate an apple for dessert, but it wasn't as good as I expected. I've got to remember to look for some locally grown fresh apples from this season. We should have planted an apple tree a long time ago, but we didn't want to have to spray it, etc. Have to see what I can find at the store.
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