A look through a relatively new garden bauble at the deliciously green, especially in June, Daily KRuMB Garden.
The Daily KRuMB Garden Sunday, Jun 21 2015
Arlington and Daily and Decoration and Front Yard 4:07 pm
Hanging Cage Thing Sunday, Aug 3 2008
Daily and Decoration and Front Yard and Photoblog and Texas CANON, Decoration, outdoor, Photoblog 11:36 am
1 August 2008
Outdoor cage-type thing; it hangs over the birdbath in the front yard. It’s one of the many acquisitions that my wife has made that, although it makes the front yard beautiful, I have no idea what its true purpose is.
Cheers.
~KR (Written on 3 August 2008 )
Listening to:
Teardrop Fall by No-Man
from Flowermouth
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Software: picnik.com
Reflection in a Gazing Ball Saturday, Dec 15 2007
Arlington and Daily and Decoration and Front Yard and Reflection and Texas and Tree 11:05 am
8 December 2007
A Saturday. Hoorah. Despite a few emotional bits, I did manage to get out of the house. At least as far as the front yard.
Yep, that's just a decoration in the front yard. It sits in a garden area under a big Black Oak. It's pretty.
Cheers.
~KR (8 December 2007)
Listening to:
Pieces of You by Raintree
from Just Live
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/5.5
Focal Length: 23.2 mm
ISO Speed: 640
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
Tags: REFLECTION, GAZING+BALL, YARD, DECORATION, PHOTOBLOG
On Which I Trod Wednesday, Dec 5 2007
Daily and Front Yard and People and Texas 7:37 pm
18 November 2007
Feeling better. Not good by any stretch, but better. Enough better in fact to go outside and take this photo:
The photo assignment for that week was "On Which We Tread" which I think is a darned clever way to get all of us to take a moment and looksee what we're walking on. I can tell you, I rarely look down to see what's at my feet. Perhaps it's because I can't really see my feet if I look down right now…but that's fixable. Also, it's an interesting look at what we call "Fall" here in North Texas. Yep, brown leaves on green grass. One day all those leaves were on the oak tree overhead; the next day they were strewn upon my lawn having turned brown and fallen overnight. Yep, fall in Texas. It goes by very quick.
Cheers.
~KR (18 November 2007)
Listening to:
Don't Know Why (You Stay) by The Essex Green
on Cannibal Sea
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
Guarding the Garden Thursday, Oct 25 2007
Daily and Front Yard and Garden and Photoblog and Statue 2:10 pm
12 October 2007
Still playing with the new camera before heading over the pond. This is an early morning photo of a gnome that keeps one of our gardens safe. I grew up with these little guys in Germany, and my wife loves to have them around. I guess they'll just always be part of my life. I'm good with that. This one actually sits against our neighbours house watching out over our front lawn He's always a welcome sight.
Cheers.
~KR (12 October 2007)
Listening to:
Gun Through a Razor by Flaming Fire
on Songs From the Shining Temple
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.5
Focal Length: 23.2 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
Green Sun Monday, Sep 24 2007
Arlington and Daily and Decoration and Front Yard 2:03 pm
23 September 2007
Got up and hosted the conference call this morning as my boss headed south to a UT game. I then watched an absolutely marvelous Arsenal side demolish newly-promoted Derby in what essentially turned into an exhibition game at the Emirates. Quite a fun match. Following that was a trip to the store for the much-dreaded, yet anticipated, laptop purchase for MB. We settled on the computer she wanted and took it home. I then spent several hours configuring it while she went to her crop party (I'm not so into scrapbooking). After taking the configuration as far as I could without her, I took further advantage of her love for scrapbooking and indulged my love of movies. I went to see the third installment of a franchise that should have stopped after the first one. Resident Evil: Extinction, although better than the second movie is not really worth your time. Unless, that is, you just love to look at Jovovich. So, on my way out the door, I snapped this photo of the sun as seen through a green glass bauble hanging from the front porch eve:
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And, that is all she wrote.
Cheers.
~KR (22 September 2007)
Listening to:
Since We Last Spoke by RJD2
on Since We Last Spoke
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Tags: SUN, GREEN, RESIDENT+EVIL, SCRAPBOOKING, MOVIES, RJD2, SINCE+WE+LAST+SPOKE
Up a Tree Friday, Aug 24 2007
Arlington and Bokeh and Daily and Dogs and Front Yard and Garden and House and Looking Up and Nature and Sky and Tree and Wood 1:54 pm
23 August 2007
This day was done. I was done. Completely shattered and not wishing much in the way of company. I was nearly relieved when Terrill decided not to join me at the bar (that doesn’t happen very frequently). With no company, I decided to go home and spend a quiet evening at the house. I pulled into the driveway, got out of my little Mitshubishi and walked to this massive Black Oak that resides in my front yard. I placed the camera against the bark and shot upward not even bothering to compose. I took four shots that way, moving the camera a little each time to achieve a different view. I like this one:
It sort of composed itself with the ivy moving to a vanishing point that exists at about the spot that the overhead branches diverge. I might very well have even composed the shot that way. On the left hand side there is a fuzzy little blur. That is a web-worm, or tent-caterpillar, or whatever you call those vile little parasites. I killed it.
Cheers.
~KR (23 August 2007)
Listening to:
Coverville-051018 by Brian Ibbott
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Tags: PHOTOBLOG, OAK, TREE, NATURE, PHOTO, TEXAS, COVERVILLE
Front Yard Decoration Friday, Jul 13 2007
Arlington and Candle and Daily and Decoration and Front Yard and Texas 8:30 am
11 July 2007
This is a candle holder. It stands in the front garden next to a bench. In the Spring and Fall, when I’m not melting every time I go outside, we will sometimes stick a “bug-away” candle in there and sit in the front yard. It’s not often, because those bugs really, really like me, and I really, really, really don’t like them. So, I tend to not spend an abundance of time in the yard; this is much to my wife’s chagrin, I feel I should add.
Cheers.
~KR (11 July 2007)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 16.6 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
The Cone Flower Tuesday, Jul 10 2007
Arlington and Daily and Flower and Front Yard and Garden and House and Nature and Texas 4:07 pm
10 July 2007
I should’ve known what kind of day it was going to be when I took my first step outside the door this morning and almost immediately dropped my coffee cup shattering the lid and spilling coffee all over everything. Frustrating. The rest of the day was spent trying to debug and isolate badly written code and get some routes submitted.
Not to be completely dissuaded however, by the coffee-cup incident, I went ahead grabbed my camera and took the photo that I had intended to take this morning. 
We have several beautiful cone flowers that have been flourishing in our front garden for a number of years now. Most recently we’ve had, what the media termed a Web worm attack, although I believe they were actually tent caterpillars rather than web worms. These so-called web worms, destroyed all of the softwood foliage in both front and back yards and all of the neighboring houses; including the cone flowers. This beautiful one however, somehow survived. The brilliant orange and pink on a background of green just really spoke to me and I decided to use it as is the photo of the day. I took other photos of the coneflowers, but typical of the way the day started, the first couple of photos were obscured by this crazy layer of condensation that had formed on the camera lens when I stepped outside. I was dealing with near 100% humidity on an 80 plus degree day making it pretty darn miserable, but it did lend a really nice soft focus filter quality to the image. I’m now home to spend some time with the dogs, and to change clothes before I head back out to a bar to join some friends of mine. You see, it is after all, dollar beer night.
Cheers.
~KR (10 July 2007)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.5 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Sunlight on Flowers Friday, Jun 15 2007
Arlington and ceramic and Daily and Decoration and Flower and Front Yard and Garden and Texas 10:05 am
13 June 2007
One of Marita Beth’s great solaces is gardening. I love it because she creates a beautiful environment that I get to come home to every day. This Wednesday, the 13th, the sun was breaking through clouds and creating rich shadow and deep light on things. The front garden (which is soon to undergo a massive change) caught my eye and I took a number of photos. I settled on this one:
The yellow flowers dangling over the daisy stepping stone composition I liked best.
Cheers.
~KR (13 June 2007)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 13 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
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