Strain : Unknown

edited by Nelson Ball.

Kitchener, Weed/Flower Press, january/february 1967.

32 pp/29 printed, mimeo in offset cover. 8-1/2 x 7, stapled wrappers.

poetry by S.G.Buri, Bobby Byrd, Jack Cain, Barbara Caruso (+ cover), Ed Kissam, Seymour Mayne, David McFadden, John Newlove, bpNichol (the potato poems), Margaret Randall, Keith Wilson. among the filler notes, an announcement of the first issue of grOnk.

covers lightly creased...

5o.oo

weed

leftovers from tahoe trip got smoked in the hookah :)

I found a packet of what appeared to be medical marijuana in my yard. I naturally returned it to the neighborhood medical marijuana dispensary, where they told me someone had taken their packaging and swapped out the weed for tobacco. Oh.

I know these are just weed seeds, but I still liked how this turned out.

I did this (rather quickly) prompted by Sandra who had created an image using a barn door as a background texture.

I used CS Photoshop and the following layer description sums it up.

Background - weed shot

Layer 2 - Barn Door

Layer 3 - A Levels layer because I wanted to increase the strngth of the door shot

Layer 4 - A green colour fill on 55% opacity to give a green tint to the door

Layer 5 - A background copy of the weed to sit on top of the door

Layer 6 - A Brightness/Contrast layer to increase the overall brightness and contrast

Layer 6 - From the background layer, use marquee and mark a border just inside the edge of the shot, then cut it to this new layer which basically gives a shape like a traditional picture frame, but inside the shot, thenconvert it to a drop shadow effect inside this frame and you get a faint glow inside that red line

Layer 7 - the Signature text

Finished off with the thin black frame edge

The overall effect is framing that looks like it is hovering around the shot. Add salt and pepper and opacity levels to taste for effect.

View Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer On Black for best effect.

Thank you Sandra for the advice.

Some chronic called J 14

Our Daily Challenge 11-17 Oct : Antique.

I love this Victorian object, which, although it hangs on a wall in the house, I still use on the lawn.

See it postworked here www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2570710

many nugs

kids, please don't smoke, drink or do drugs

Upland rice weed / AMARANTHACEAE (amaranth family)

Weed name: Amaranthus spinosus L.

books.google.com.ph/books/irri?id=tqRtCQ9WMLUC&pg=PA2...

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

My mom weeding and the toad Simon

If anybody seeing this is involved with cemetery preservation or local history in Greenwood, Mississippi, you might want to find out what this blue gunk is that's on the grass and the bottoms of many of the tombstones in Old Greenwood Cemetery. My guess is weed killer -- and my guess is that it's not good for tombstones.

Smoking Time.

Freelensing with my 50mm

went out this morning, looked like it would be a dry day (for once) so a good time to get medieval on the local weed population's collective ass.

this one softened my heart a little, so it won a reprieve... this time.

Lowland rice weeds / ONAGRACEAE (evening-primrose family)

Weed name: Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) Raven

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Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Ogräs

There may not be much grass, but there are plenty of these out there.

#weed #Smoking

edited by Nelson Ball.

Toronto, Weed/Flower Press, september 1967.

24 pp/21 printed, mimeo in offset cover. 8-1/2 x 7, topstapled wrappers.

poetry by Carol Bergé, William Hawkins, Lynn Machan, Hans-Werner Tolle, Diane Wakoski; cover by Barbara Caruso; some editorial commentary by Ball with notes on David W.Harris's Fleye Press & bpNichol's Ruth.

ink smudges on front cover...

2o.oo

Agapanthus. The only good thing about them is the excuse to spend 6 weeks routinely breaking things, as we dead head what we can reach before it flowers.

Entertainingly, this one has had someone try to do just that, and a second flower head is trying to emerge from the break in the stem!

Ilford Pan F, ID-11 Nikon F2 Photomic, Nikkor-S Auto 1:1.4 f=50mm Nippon Kogaku

Neg digitised by DSLR with Takumar 50mm Macro and extension tube.

Lowland rice weeds / CYPERACEAE (sedge family)

Weed Name: Cyperus difformis L.

books.google.com.ph/books/irri?id=tqRtCQ9WMLUC&pg=PA1...

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Talloz moraoos... antes de cogollar!

extension.udel.edu/ag/weed-science/

I said I had a lot of these.......Taking pic's in -0 degree windy weather....Put on parka...have camera with a fully charged battery......run to place to shoot.....shoot till you can't feel the shutter button......run to house door.....bag camera in a gallon zip lock bag....get inside....run to sink and run cold water on your hands to thaw......wait an hour ...Repeat.....

Modell:Zedi and Niar