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June25th, 2007 follow up Aren't these tomatoes marvelous. I just picked them. We will get some storms. Finally some serious rain, so I hope. I wanted to pick at least the ones that are ripe so they won't get knocked d off the vines. Some green ones fell off to. The yellow pear shaped ones are really neat little tomatoes. Great sweet taste and interesting shape. Look like pears, don't they? These are Yellow Pear Tomatoes, Grape Tomatoes and Cocktail Tomatoes. Fully organically gown. |
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I recommend you try this vendor "CyberCucina" They have it and great gift specialties as well. They are a family owned
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June25th, 2007 Hello There, I hope everyone had a great weekend. Here in Georgia we are sweating "BIG TIME" lots of heat, little rain and humidity. No relief in sight and the drought conditions remain. It really makes me want to move further north sometimes but then again when I hear people snowed under in the winter I am glad to live in the south. It definitely is a plus when growing cantaloupes and other sun loving veggies and fruits. My cantaloupes patch is gigantic and has many baby cantaloupes already growing. Everything else is doing great too.
I am sooooo busy my head is spinning, gardening, tending to cats mostly the new one Buster - Casey. I bath him every other day and he starting to love it. I must post some photos or make a video but where to find the time. It's really crazy. Working on the CD cover and painting and marketing and and an... HELP!!!! OK friends, you may wonder why I have product adds placesd, off an on in-between my post and my web site. Well simple, I promote product and provide links to them based on my own personal interests and shopping habits. I shop a lot online. Have been doing so for years. I love the convenience because I don't like to go out in the heat, run the air in my car, gas and parking, not to mention going from store to store sometimes just to fin what I want. If I go somewhere it's to take pictures of nature, dining, and fun traveling. I don't like to spend my time in malls. Voila the internet is the best thing since sliced bred for people like me. I find everything I need from the comfort of my home and the shipping cost doe snot bother me at all. After all my gas and my time is worth more then that. Except for the soil almost everything I need for gardening I get on the net, including heirloom seeds and this year my heirloom roses. I could be a professional shopper since I know where to find exactly what I want only I find it online. The products I promote are almost all things I bough and buy myself. I am also a gourmet fan and love to use unique and often hard to find gourmet items, .like certain vinegars and condiments. French and Italian are two of my preferred items as well as unique American specialties like the Corn Jelly I found and the country style pickled beans just to mention a few. So I promise, I don't just promote anything. This is all about who I am and what I like and I want to share this with you. I hope you will try some of the vendors I link to.
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One of the yellow squash. They are looking great. Can't wait to fix them up slightly cooked in olive oil with just a bit of pepper and salt. The other day I ran over to the local Gallery Arts Clayton in Jonesboro to deliver a few paintings for a show at a real estate event. It was a impromptu invitation. Peggy the Gallery Manager called me and said" "How soon can you gt them here?" and I said... "I'm on my way!" So off I went in my Gilligan's Island hat and my painting clothes. We had our picture taken and I look very goofy. Peggy of course gorgeous and tall and wonderful as she always is. But then of course I am the eccentric artist and Peggy the wonderful angel that keeps me in mind when people are looking for art. My paintings aren't in the picture, they were on their way to the show.
Some photos of some of my roses. Same rose looks different depending on light and background.
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June 23rd, 2007 I've been working on a CD cover design for the last few weeks.
Before I started to paint, more or less full time I did graphics design for a
local Record Label Wilbe Records, which
I still do part time. The record label is owned by Grammy Award winning
William Bell This cover is for an up and coming artist "Lola". I took pictures
of her To the right is a preview of what it will look like. The top one is the one I designed first and the record label picked. The 2nd one is nice but is too feminine and Lola's R&B style is raw and gritty with blues undertones, and the cover does not convey that. We decided to go with the first one. It's eye catching, modern and works for Lola. Lola is an R& B artist with a powerful voice and I think she'll do great. I'm always behind the camera... here I am in the picture with Lola
When sounds samples are available I will post some in my blog here. I very much enjoy doing the graphics work and photography for Wilbe Records. I get to meet great artists and it allows me to tap in to other parts of my creativity which I think benefits me in my painting work. Not to mention that is is a welcome source of income. I took the pictures with my Olympus E-Volt Camera. I've been
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June 20th, 2007 I apologize for making few entries these days in my blog. It seems there is little time. My days starts early with spending most morning tending to my garden and cats. I had to get my cats to the vet this week and that was an ordeal since they don't travel well. Good news last week Tuesday June 12, a little stray wondered on to our property. While I was checking my tomatoes I saw a shadow hush buy. I wondered what it was it seemed small. I found it huddled under the steps leading up to my kitchen. The little kitten, maybe two months old, found his way in to the "Chalet" which is our outside cat enclosure. He made himself at home right away. After I was able to lure him in to a small carrier, took him inside to check him out. He was shy and scared but that faded after a few minutes and he became very loving and sweet. I decided to put him in my studio in a large cage to keep him away from the others. A few days later we decided to adopt him. I just could not bare to take him to a shelter. Last year we lost out beloved Tommy, he as a red and white tabby American short hair and he was definably a personality. This little bundle reminds me a lot of Tommy. He is gray and white tabby American shorthair, same long legs and feisty personality. We named him Buster- Casey He had his first vet appointment. I had treaded him for flees the first three days and by the time he saw the vet he was clean as a whistle. He checked out well, no feline leukemia and no ear mites. He was vaccinates for Leukemia, Rabies and Respiratory and In a couple of weeks he get his booster shots and he is ready to be fully integrated in to the family. Of course O'Mally and Josi are apprehensive but little by little they seem to get used to the little noise coming from my studio, where buster is living right now. My other two Mama and Orio are mostly outside and don't stick around much anymore. Here is a photo of out new member of the family Welcome "Buster-Casey"
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Josi & O'Mally
Buster-Casey
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June 10th, 2007 It's been all work all the time for the last week and I just don't have much time to post in my blog. Today I painted this painting. A watercolor 8 x 20" of one of my roses that just bloomed. If you are interested in buying this painting please contact me here I staged a photo with a couple of blossoms of this Blue Rose. I just planted this heirloom this year and I hope to have many more blooms. I look forward to painting them in oil as well.
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June 7th, 2007 Don't leave your dryer open when you have cats. This is our O'Mally and she likes my freshly dried laundry.
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For the last two months we have been going through a severe
drought. That makes it very challenging to grow my eatables. Nevertheless at
least I am allowed to water my food plants as needed and I am a water conserver
already. I conserve, not just when it's dry, but all year long. I never let the
water run when brushing my teeth and 30 minutes showers have never been my
thing. I am in and out of the shower. I don't water any lawn and I
don't use sprinklers. I learned from my grand father who was an avid gardener,
that the best time to water is morning and preferably not with overhead but
rather directly on to the soil to prevent water on the leaves which promotes diseases.
Using sprinklers during hot summer days lets water just evaporate in to the air,
not doing any good to the plants.
I'll post some pictures of my plants tomorrow. Here is just one. Believe it or not I already have red tomatoes. These are cocktail tomatoes. I also have some Pear, Grape and Mr. Stripy as well as some big fat tomatoes.
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