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I took Rusty for a walk along the Nith River a couple of weeks ago, and while it was a lovely location we picked up a tick. I say “we” because I suspect it started on Rusty and ended up on me. According to our local health unit ticks are worse this year and have shown up earlier than years gone by. Rusty has since been treated, however, I don’t think they make a human treatment, unless of course I want to bathe in DEET and wear permethrin-treated clothing. I think I’ll pass.
3 years ago today I took a quick pic of the Scottish Rite with my iPhone. Last year I shot a wedding there with my wife. This double exposure combines a long exposure from the wedding that was corrupted with my original iPhone shot of the building.
My sister sent me this vintage military pic of her husband and asked if I could remove the wrinkles. I told her it could be done with Photoshop but that I only had the Photoshop Express app which limits how much editing I can do. Although I had major challenges with the right ear I think it turned out pretty good for an edit done exclusively on my iPhone.
I’ve never tried the iPhone at night. Walking to the station I have it a go. It’s got some interesting results. Considering it’s handheld and no settings it’s interesting. Edited in psexpress
For those attracted to flowering bonsai, the Toyo Nishiki exerts an irresistible attraction. Most likely, this is due to the red, white and pink floral display that comes each spring. Also included with this beautiful quince, are a number of problems: 1) Internodes (space between the buds) tend to be long, making for gangly bonsai, instead of the compact forms favored today, and 2) While white and pink flowers are standard, the red flowers are notoriously difficult to generate. There are different theories as to why this is so, but for the enthusiast like myself, I just want the flowers. Of course, grafting branches that have already produced red flowers is one approach to the problem, but the value of the tree is less than if the red flowers appeared spontaneously. According to critics.
In Japan, there are cultivars of Toyo Nishiki that have all 3 colors of flowers present from the start, but these cultivars are not readily available in the US. Then, Brent Walston of Evergreen Gardenworks offered his Toyo Nishiki Improved in 2013. I have been working with this cultivar since then, mostly in the form of my Toyo Nishiki Improved Forest. Here’s what Brent says about his offering:
“The flowering is variable and quite unpredictable. Some branches … will be mostly red flowers, others mostly pink and white, but nearly all will also have multi-colored flowers as well. “
I find this description to be true. It is the multi-colored flowers that sets this tree apart. Additionally, the internodes can be managed easily by judicious pruning, and the tree ramifies reasonably well.
This picture is a stereogram.