The trees are in full bloom at the moment, so I’ve taken a few pictures of some of them to share here. A photo gallery of some pictures is below (click the first (or any) image to open a larger version in a slide show)
Saturday April 24 was “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” in Grand Rapids. A grey drizzly day as it turned out. Fortunately not really raining. The event started this year in Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids (the green arrow on this map) and wandered around a little before heading up Ottawa Ave, past Calder…
This one is perhaps the most difficult one so far. It starts out as a tiny 2 ½ x 3 ¼ print, so there’s not a lot to work with getting started… Still quite a bit of work to do yet on this one.
This one took a LOT of work. Not helped by a very inopportune Photoshop crash 🙁 A lot of work with Adobe Photoshop CS4 to get the left version to the right version – all from an original that is 3 ¼ x 2 ½ inches.
Here are a couple of before and after shots of some olde photos I’ve fixed up for a friend. After scanning the photos it was lots of time with the tools available in Photoshop to Clone, Heal and Patch the damage. The second photo had been torn nearly through and then “fixed” with sellotape at…
One part of the Michigan State finals of First Lego League was held at Carman-Ainsworth Middle School in Flint, Michigan on 12 December 2009. The team from Byron Center – Team <Default> – made it to the State Finals for the first time ever thanks to their performance at the Regionals at Grandville on 20…
We live adjacent to a large field that is planted in either corn or soy beans each summer. I don’t know who owns the ground, nor who does the planting and harvesting, but they sure have access to some very large machinery. At the end of November we got an inch of rain over Thanksgiving,…
On 25th November Lisa and I took her Mum down to the Toledo Museum of Art to see the exhibit of Dale Chihuly glass works “Chihuly Toledo!” We had been to the Toledo Museum of Art during the Summer to spend a day there looking at displays, including a fascinating glass blowing exhibition in The…
Saturday 20 November was the “Smart Move Regional LEGO League Qualifying Tournament” of “FIRST Lego® League” at Grandville Middle School, Grandville, Michigan. The Team from Byron Center is Team <default>. The ended up finishing 6th at this tournament, including 1st place in Research, so are off to the State Finals in Flint on 12 December….
Halloween 2009 was at Kurt and Ann’s house again. Everybody got into the spirit, and a great time was had by all. Even Balto the Brittany reluctantly got into his costume – a glow in the dark set of ribs and skull cap. As usual there was lots of good food, and even the pavlova I…