Archive for April, 2011

Why do GOOD people love BAD photography?

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

Why do so many people modify their photos to resemble an image taken by a poor quality camera? Here’s a sample of the filtered, post processed, “how ugly can I make this photo” results from Instagram, one of several popular photo defacement apps for the iPhone.

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Beginnings of a Butterfly Garden.

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Here at The Ranch (and it is vast, almost 2.5 acres!) there are still a few Monarch butterfly stragglers. By rights, they should have headed north and east in search of milkweed which the female selects as the only plant where she lays her eggs.

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Blog Renewal. It’s been a while…

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

For reasons that remain unclear to me, I stopped writing in this blog 16 months ago. Maybe I lost the password? Something mundane.

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