Farmer's Market

Anyone who has been to the Bloomington Farmer's Market knows this one--the "Chili Lady".  I always buy several of her plants and one has survived for over four years.

Save some for me!

I was snapping a few pictures of a butterfly on my Echinacea and did not even realize the little sweat bee was in the photo.

The "Brick"

While visiting relatives over the holiday I snapped this photo of the old Huffman House.  It took quite a bit of touch-up with Photoshop to remove all the power and telephone wires (and a wee bit of junk in the yard), but it still looks like "grandma's house".

Huffman Covered Bridge

A quick trip south on Independence Day to visit family and friends!  While there I took a series of photos of the covered bridge from the new bridge over the Anderson River and I was surprised at how well it turned out.  There are 24 hand-held photos stitched together (using PhotoShop).  The bridge is scheduled to be extensively repaired and raised in the near future.

Still more scanner art

This one actually would be suitable for framing!  This is just a cosmos that I picked and scanned on my Canon scanner.  I turn out the lights during the scan and set the resolution at 800 pixels/inch.  You do get a large image, but it is easy to work with.

I did resize this picture so that it is only 1500 pixels across.

Garden update

Well, I said I was going to quit the regular Friday updates on the garden, but after posting yesterdays image I decided to try a little scanner art on the garden.  This is a leaf and fruit of my incredible climbing cucumber.  I have been picking about two or more cucumbers each day, and two other bushes are coming on strong.

Wind Chime

I wish I could remember who taught me this trick, but I can't.  I just laid the geode slice (part of a wind chime) on my scanner and scanned it with the lights out.  It is kind of amazing that it works, but it gives a good resolution image.