Corn Harvest Round II

 Our own “community garden” corn was due for harvest this week.  We took on the rain and thunderstorms and harvested a total of  35 quarts of corn, with 14 dozen left to eat.  Not a bad year.  We split that between 3 families to help supply our freezers for the winter.  It’s always a fun time, 6 adults, 11 children, 90 degree heat, mosquitoes and humidity, a muddy yard due to torrential downpours…what more could one ask for???:)  Seriously though, it was a good time.

Fyi, this is what a picture looks like when it’s pitch black outside and you adjust your ISO, light metering, and white balance enough to take a picture without your flash…grainy.  Actually, the picture turned out half decent.  These two little ones managed to grab corn out of the ice cold water, nibble away, drop it back in, reach in for another and so on…we caught them as you can see…red-handed.

Same picture…with my flash on:)

New piece of corn…

The adults enjoyed their share of corn while cutting.

Sneaking another one…

I must say that I’m glad it’s done, still harvesting beans, were able to harvest our first red potatoes, waiting on tomatoes to ripen, anxious for the sweet potatoes…all a part of gardening.

Photoshop Fun

 

I had a lot of fun photographing London the other afternoon.  Almost as much fun was playing around with Photoshop and editing some of my favorites!  Thanks to Christine for hanging out with your laptop and answering all of my questions as we fiddled around with the Photoshop tools!!!!  Here are some of the pics Christine edited.  London doesn’t need Photoshop to enhance her loveable face, but it was fun for her mom nonetheless:)

As you can see we were having fun playing around with some brushes creating flourishes all over the place:)

This would be my personal favorite.

Overexposed but sweet.

Above you see the same picture, one in “color-pop” and the other in sepia. 

No editing needed;)

Blueberry Picking

Well it’s that time again…to pick blueberries….or for some little ones, to EAT blueberries.  Every summer the kids and I head over to a local blueberry patch and pick (and eat:)) blueberries.  This particular day was our 3rd trip out to the patch as each week brings a new variety of blueberries so we’ve enjoyed trying  each variety.  This trip we were pleased to be accompanied by the cousins!!!!  We had a great time despite the 90 degree heat!