Foggy

 looking doesn't always mean that it is foggy out.

 

 

This foggy appearing photo gave me pause when I took a peek at it, to just how well the photo

and my intent came out. Looking at this picture and saying to myself, hey it's not foggy out and 

proceeded to wipe the lens, plural, there are three lenses.

 

Something portrait photographers did in the day was to smudge their lens with whatever they had

in their bag to create a similar effect. 

This composition was challenging enough, with only a dash off western sun to spotlight the new 

leaf and blossoms, little contrast and yet plenty of texture. While still wanting to record my

modifying this scenery by tilting over the cement pot and giving the pot the cornucopia of plant 

effect and on top of that to make it look like it's always been like this.

Thus presenting the first, hardly spontaneous, late Fall scenes from this constant's gardeners garden.

Hopefully more to come, or not...

Thank You

 tropical storm nichol ,with intentional little initial spell check,ok? Formerly known

 as Cat1 Huricane Nichol for allowing me to fill four and a half fifty-five gallon 

rainbarrels, in less than two hours. Woo hoo!

    With almost nightmarish regulatory near the end of setting a timer with ever changing

intervals, alternating left and right side hauling to even out the where and tear on this 

beast of burden. Throw in some determination and anticipation and getting wet and

blasted with gusts of winds that were nothing like Ian's, thank goodness.

    This last haul is a great reset of stored rain as we get into our natural dry season, with

some intermittent showers hear and there, if we are lucky, says the constant gardener.

My Lucky

 green charmer. A face only a constant gardener could love.

Today will be an exceptionally wonderful day.

Looky Looky

 what I found digging in my backyard while installing a new garden art installation.

Early forty's, Dura-Gloss nail polish bottle, no cap. that pink residue you see inside the bottle

has been called Tropical by said manufacturer. Patent shown on the bottom and it's variation puts

it about 1938 and according the advertisement that I found, yours for ten cents. Mine was free while

digging in my backyard for a reimaging of a former garden installation due to Hurricane Ian's

remodel of my back side yard.

This garden alter that was formerly my original back steps to my porch and painted accordingly.

  This alter , altered said event by guiding this downed thirty foot Podopcarpus tree to where

you see it resting between the alter and it's neighboring Crinum flowerless lily, long story

there.

  This constant gardener needs no push and shove to gets things in their place, new place.

Where upon, I find my current buried treasure, shown above.

 Alter has been moved an reimaged into a new/old ruin. Not to take away from it's former 

intended purpose but, lets say a transformation.

                        Note the three portals, I mean plant holders on the side, now ruin and not easily 

discerned is a small crevice of an opening on it's new face, for another plant candidate. The always 

present and close by native Florida Mayhop vine is waiting to give this ruin some greenery. Besides

this constant gardener's itchy green thumbs.

   This now ruin, revealing it's former face looks as if Hurricane Ian had spawned a tornado and

just tossed this into it's new location, good shot Ian, albeit with some new steel reinforcement 

thrown in for safety measures too, who knew.

                                           Let  the   plantings   begin . .  .    ..    ..       .     .       .

Two Young

 Bald Cypress, already a few years old and perhaps wondering what is my future.

    Well that was then and the here is now and you get to fill a void that this once

tall standing Podocarpus tree graced this very spot, where your roots have not yet

taken to, these sacred grounds  o f   t h  i   s     c  o   n    s  t  a  n    t      g   a    r   d   e   n    e      r   .   .    .

This Flowering

 volunteer vines up this potted citrus, and in two days the number of blooms increase exponentially 

as does it' ever entwining vine. 

 

                         Beauty will present it's self in surprisingly stunning ways. 

                 

 

Critter Condo

 gets an addition, complements of Ian to doubling it's always in creasing in size.

     I just used my sweat acuity, barely broke a sweat to be honest and viola.