Greetings Friends! A beautiful day here in the Heartland. Not a cloud in the sky and no wind. I hope everyone is safe that were in the path of the hurricane.

Here are two of the new murals going up on the Palace. Theme is Seven Wonders of the World and National Landmarks. Can you figure these out?

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TGIF everyone.

A home down the street from me has for years produced nearly pristine roses, most are yellow but at least obe bush puts out hot pink blossoms.

Here's one of the yellow ones, taken yesterday...

   

I couldn't decide on what color pepper to buy so.......

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Monday Monday, so good to me...

One of my better photos (taken 2015-06-29) was of salsa ingredients in a molcajete.

   

So I had another go at the same subjects. IMO this one isn't nearly as good as the one above, but here it is anyway...

   

Shown in this photo taken and processed yesterday are: a large store bought onion, two store bought vine-ripened tomatoes, a large home-grown banana pepper (rather hot), a very hot Thai Dragon Cayenne Pepper (also home-grown); a small home grown jalapeno, and two small home grown hybrid tomatoes.

Salsa ingredients not shown are: a larger home grown jalapeno that ripened to a lovely red color, a few cloves of store bought garlic that I'll char in their skins then mince through a garlic press, some store bought limes for enough fresh juice to brighten the salsa, and a bit of salt & pepper.

All but the cayenne will be charred under the broiler then rough-chopped , remembering (I hope) to save the delicious mixed juices from the chopping. I may add some thinly sliced scallions and perhaps some charred tomatillos.

It is the weekend for me and it seems that postings are not everyday. So here we are.
I'll show some of the natural world that I've helped happen. Yes, I planted all the trees and shrubs that were grown from seeds and cuttings.

A local sunrise taken 2 mornings ago...

   

Yeah, it's rather dark, but that pretty accurately shows what I saw. And I like how the rusty orange and the purplish gray interact.

Good day or evening to all.

Here's a re-edit of an image from around 15 years ago.

A photo I took through an airplane window? Nope.

Taken with a high altitude drone? No.

A photo I took leaning over the basket of a hot air balloon? Not a chance!

   

It's based on an image I made using Terragen, a landscape and waterscape generating software.

It brought to mind the Matt Damon movie The Martian, based on the excellent book of the same name, written by Andy Weir.  His latest book is titled Hail Mary, A fascinating novel about a long-shot attempt to save Earth that involves one man, an extraterrestrial, and their eventual friendship. I found it to be a great book, unlike anything I've read before. It's among my top 10 favorite books ever.

Missing a few days on the forum. Must be the heat. Cooling off for us by Thursday as we transition into fall.

Here is a Cobra that a friend brought to church yesterday. He restores Mustangs for a living.He and his wife are celebrating their birthdays in October. I will make a BD card for them with the photo. I embellished it with a couple of reflections.

Hope all is well with everybody.

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Hi Folks

Just a heads-up to say I dropped another bunch of images into my gallery area.

regards - Pete

This is a tawny frogmouth.

Go away, I'n sleeping



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