(August 28, 2016 at 11:49 am)pocaracas Wrote: Took a photo of Venus with my phone, the other day...




(no need for fancy lenses... )

Very surprised you could do that.

(August 29, 2016 at 8:16 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Just breathtaking...  I wish I could see something like that in person.  I hate living in a city.

I like living in a city but I am always blown away when I get up far away from city lights and can get a good look at the galaxy. That view is only getting scarcer.

Whateverist, I love your garden. I can see the thousands of hours you have put into it.
I like the glazed blue tiles set into the wooden fence.
I like your water fountain. I tried the same thing once but didn't realise the pot had to be glazed on the inside as well.
It was very similar in size and colour before it burst from the pressure.
I like your paths, your pond and your different areas to sit and relax.
Gardening and landscaping is an art form and you Sir are a true artist.

(August 29, 2016 at 10:38 am)Little lunch Wrote: Whateverist, I love your garden. I can see the thousands of hours you have put into it.
I like the glazed blue tiles set into the wooden fence.
I like your water fountain. I tried the same thing once but didn't realise the pot had to be glazed on the inside as well.
It was very similar in size and colour before it burst from the pressure.
I like your paths, your pond and your different areas to sit and relax.
Gardening and landscaping is an art form and you Sir are a true artist.

Thank you LL.  I'm also captivated by gardens and am in a couple garden groups.  One of them, the Hortisexuals (aka The Bay Area Horticultural Society), is made up of professional garden designers, nursery owners, other people in the trade and people whose garden they like.  These guys put together garden tours in our general area 2 to 4 times a year along with trips all over the world.  I haven't been able to go on these more ambitious tours until recently when I retired.  Budget concerns will keep me from going on many of them but I did get to go to San Diego for several days earlier this year.  All the local tours include coffee and treats at the first garden as well as a catered lunch.  I really don't know how they do it on dues of just $20 every two years. There is at least one member who is very wealthy whose hill top garden a few of us stopped by to see after a local tour.  I have to think some of these people are subsidizing the costs.

As you guessed I've made the garden over a long period of time on my own and on the cheap.  Teaching school has given me my summers for projects.  But I just won't let the garden become a huge to-do list.  I prefer to approach it as play when the spirit moves me, and it has gone from an effort to simulate ideal habitat for birds to deliberate efforts to please my own aesthetic sense.  Too bad you're all the way across the globe.  I always enjoy sharing the garden with other garden lovers.

(August 28, 2016 at 10:28 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: [...] There is a supermassive black hole in it. [...]

Which matches the black hole in this kitty's mouth.

(August 29, 2016 at 10:30 am)Whateverist Wrote:

(August 28, 2016 at 11:49 am)pocaracas Wrote: Took a photo of Venus with my phone, the other day...




(no need for fancy lenses... )

Very surprised you could do that.

Would you be more surprised if I told you that I was in an airplane when I took that?

It actually kind of looks like it. Very cool.

(August 29, 2016 at 2:06 pm)pocaracas Wrote:

(August 29, 2016 at 10:30 am)Whateverist Wrote: Very surprised you could do that.

Would you be more surprised if I told you that I was in an airplane when I took that?

Did you open the window?  

You've some fair green fingers Whateverist. I should deign to post some pics of the field we call a garden at home some day.