Road of Peas

Leslie has chosen this picture for her background. This is cool, I really like how the picture works as a repeated tile.

A friend brought me a box of shitake mushrooms he had picked, and I grinned twice over: they’re so delicious! …and I knew I had found the perfect background for the most beautiful dried rose I have ever managed to create. I found the rose on a walk near work, and then placed it on one of the myriad monitors clogging up my office. Monitors are great flower driers, at least the tube monitors. I haven’t tried this with a flat screen yet.

This is a great display of my picture - I love it. The picture makes me smile everytime I see it.

Thanks Leslie!

This little tree lives in an alpine meadow near Grasshopper Point. If you like alpine meadows, this is a great hike: from Grasshopper Mountain over to Chucksney Mountain stretch 3 or 4 of miles of meadows, with some cool rocky ridges connecting them. It’s an old trail, and near the middle is a very funny section of trail. It’s run straight down a gentle slope, and is over 6 feet deep in places.

There isn’t much shade over the first mile of the trail, walking up to the ridgeline, so I like to go on cloudy days. Days like this one are great for capturing photos reminiscent of Chinese ink painting.

I post a picture of a tree on Christmas Day, and this was the 2005 photo.

Arwen Galen has posted it in a comment at a Double Exposure Community Forum. The forum is subclassed and ends up being called Bring your popcorn!

Thanks to Arwen Galen!