Friday, March 20, 2009

Happy Spring, Everyone!

Today, I stayed inside. For the past two days, I have been outside for most of the day, exactly and exactingly pruning my roses, certainly late for this time of year. Then the weeding and fertilizing and watering. Got almost all roses done in 2 days. Have about ten left to finish. Forgot about them.
My back has been giving me problems for the past week. Even though I started doing exercises 3 weeks ago and yoga-like stuff, and just general stretching crap. Then I worked in the yard for two days. Bending and stretching. And really not doing anything big. Out in the yard, there were times I could barely move. My back was seized up. It was horrible. I went on the Internet. And that's always a horrible, horrible thing to do. ID. Internet Diagnose. Now, I'm convinced I've got a damn tumor in what would have just been a teeny tiny disc disfunction in my spine. Sciatica. I looked up sciatica exercises. Crap. There are different types of exercises depending on the cause of your sciatica. I don't know what type of sciatica I have, if indeed it is sciatica. But, enough of my physical nothings. Let's look at pictures.
Here's my walkway. The stock is on the right. It self-seeds and has now filled in my next-to-walkway-space.
Lovely purple, pink, and other colored flowers. When I walk from my truck to the front door, I can smell the delicious aroma of my stock.
I like my pictures.
This is my plum tree with jonquils blooming underneath.
I love the blue hyacinths. The fragrance is delicious.
My lobster mushrooms came up in the mulch. Some more hypomyces lactiflurum information. Sorry, couldn't resist. It is
Lobster Mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum)
My tub of shells.
Here's a photographic tip. When shooting absolutes, as in white or black, remember, your light meter tries to read everything on an average to accommodate all circumstances. Basically, from the dinosaurs of SLRs, your light meter is still the same. It reads on an 18% gray scale. That's normal for it. In other words, if you're focusing on something white (Hey, look at those shells.), anticipate that your camera will turn the white, gray. So, go to the little +/- button for exposure. Hit that, and up the exposure to different degrees - +3, +5, +7. If you're focusing and metering on something black, your camera will want to up the exposure and make it gray. Don't let it do that. Go to the exposure compensation place, and hit in the MINUS degrees.
My shells.
I pruned almost all my roses in two days. My back is beating me. They were trimmed, individually fertilized, and watered.
My plum tree and jonquils.
Hope you enjoyed my pictures.

1 comment:

Marilyn said...

Gorgeous! I returned home to S. Indiana to find that my crocuses and daffodils are blooming and my hyacinths have broken through the ground.

Dear, call your masseuse and get yourself a nice massage. You deserve it!