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No rain here, but it's very windy, like before a storm. Victor, if we lose it will all be my fault. 5 letter words.

The game, I mean.

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Temp 72.6°, Wind SSW 8.3mph, rh 60%, Baro 29.55↓, Dp 57.9°

Mostly cloudy, high cloud cover with low dark, fast moving clouds underneath.

Breezy/ gusty... like before a storm.

Now I can smell the rain coming!

wow, pixie those are beautiful!
how do you get that intensity of color in your sky pics?
mine never come out anything like they really look - i've given up.

Have a safe trip Louise! See you next week.

Thanks Amy, It was actually prettier in person! I get to see some of the most beautiful sunrise's and sunsets here and try to capture them as accurately as possible. I'm glad you liked it and don't give up........you might surprise yourself!!

i didn't mean "ï've given up" in a depressed way...

But i never get skies to look the way i want. Then again, i want to take pictures when it is easy. i've learned if i try too much to take pictures, i stop enjoying what i'm doing - it becomes about getting the pics, and i am no longer having an experience - i am documenting it. (that's one reason i didn't take any till the end at the RU!)

My DH likes to take pictures, and to play with all the details manually - exposure, filters, etc. When we were on PEI this summer, there were amazing sunsets and twilights - the sky would turn lavender. One evening we pulled off the road, next to this old white-steepled church, looking down over green farms with red roads in the valley. And he took pictures. And changed lenses. And filters. And angles. i left my camera in the car and leaned on a fence and watched the sky gradually change colors, and cows in a far away field.

I'm not sure that he is entirely satisfied with any of the pictures he took - but i am totally happy with mine...

amy
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sweet memory, Amy. my DH takes at least one sunset picture every vacation spot we go to. We have a bit of a collection - well, maybe seven. Too many to put in individual frames. I think we have to mount them all in one big frame. Of course, he uses my point-and-shoot, or even, once, a throw-away camera!

This is Aruba in August.

Amy, I'm with you. I'm not expert enough with a camera to get the results that I like--but I'm not willing to put in the time & expense & learning-curve! Just lazy, I guess. I have several good buddies who are expert photographers, and I think of them as artists who make life more pleasrable for the rest of us.
I can usually be found leaning against the fence, gazing upward.

See, in that picture up there the Caribbean has settled with an southward tilt! I knew it was south of continental US but I didn't know that the water slanted toward the south - I never noticed....

We watched the cliff divers in Acapulco, and I was filming them, and the last one the diver was higher on the cliff. My DH wanted me to also film him, but I said, I'd like to just watch one!! So, I know what you mean.

Good morning! It looks like the unseasonably warm weather is over for now.

It's 52* this morning, with a dark overcast. It's supposed to rain off and on all day ~ dreary!!
Winds are back to being northerly with slight gusts and even the humidity is lower at 82%.
The temperatures will not rise much today from what I hear.

48, high of 59, partly cloudy

58 and drizzly here.

Blustery. Positively blustery.

Overcast with chance of rain
Temp: 62°F
Humidity: 90%
Wind Speed: NE 9 MPH
Barometer: 29.86 in.
Dewpoint: 59°F

I'm off today - but the weather is not conducive to gardening. I guess I'll get shopping out of the way. I also want to work on my seed list and winter sown database.

I'm using that website that someone referred further up the thread Victor.

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Oh, okay. I prefer WeatherBug, despite the ads, because it's true local conditions. The station I use is at the HS, two miles away. If I used that site, 'my' weather would be from White Plains, the nearest NWS site, where the conditions are completely different.

I am still checking out the weather stations though - some are real expensive. There are so many choices that it can be a bit daunting too.

Gray skies here but 61.4 with 68% humidity and no rain yet so I'll head outside. I use Weatherbug for the same reasons as Victor.

Amazing difference between the humidity Anita has and ours.

Almost forgot! Here's the before shot of where I've been working.

And the after shot.

The hosta were difficult to cut through even though I was using three knives, two shovels and a chisel but I conquered them.

Pirl, if i'm not mistaken..........thats a Cutco cutting board?? I have the knife set and the cutting board came with it. Never thought about using it for cutting plants!!!!!!

Looks like dinner prep.

Rain showers right now. Temp has dropped 8 degrees since I got up to 52. Very little wind if any.

Hurray! Pixie is the winner. Please come down to claim your 1,000 hostas!

Actually it's a kneeling pad from Agway but I would like the hostas to leave the premises.

It's been raining ever so lightly, on and off, so until the sun comes out again (if it does) I'm staying inside.

Yes, this is October then comes November. Then 5 months goes by and it will be April and I will actually be outside again. I might as well be in Sing Sing with Victor.

Maybe they have a greenhouse that both of you could share?

A Co-Ed Sing Sing????

I've been lobbying the warden for that to no avail.

I bet CZJ would give you a greenhouse!

In that case, the alternative name would be more appropriate - hothouse!

Victor!!!

Do they let people have extensive surgery?

Christine Jorgenson had it done back in the 50's.

In Victors prison it would have to be from female to male. I ain't going there. Unless Victor want to relocate. I am in the same prison as Pamela Smart. The Longhouse.

Ahem.. Today it's been raining lightly, off and on.

Carrie

Who is Pamela Smart?

not the least of my questions.... Brave Pirl for asking.

She had her husband murdered in NH like approx 15 years ago. She was a teacher and had 3 students involved. They went to jail also - it think one is out now? It was on the local TV here and I watched some of it. She alway's wore a bow in her hair.

Well, so did I until I was 7 or 8 years old but does that qualify her for jail? Oh, now that I read it again I saw the word murdered. Was her middle initial "M"? Then she'd have PMS permanently.