Photography: Attack Tulips On Fire Off The Shoulder Of Orion

I had a stray spring tulip appear a week ago in my flower garden. A pure magenta tulip, it was very problematic to photograph close-up with my cheap old digital camera. The colors bloomed and assaulted my camera’s CCD. Surely, I blinded the poor thing by rubbing its optical nose in such a bright bleeding magenta.

Instead of deleting the pictures as I normally do, I decided to run them through a few painter filters in PhotoShop for the heck of it. Indeed the subject in the pictures below is a live tulip. It’s that purple/magenta block in the middle or right of middle or etc…

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Photography: Frog or Toad Thingy From The Garden

Every year, my lawn fills to the brim with these small toads. I usually run them over with my lawnmower and then spend half the day cleaning guts and grass out from underneath my mower. However this year I plan to put the thumbless bastards to work in my flower beds and garden keeping stand for bugs. They’re rather friendly and will crawl onto my shoes and sit for a spell.

Photography: Fresh Spring Strawberries

Fresh spring strawberries picked from the wild highland fields of Pontiac, Michigan.