Lis had a surprise waiting for me when I got home from work today… she had made a good start painting our guest bedroom.
This is a fairly decent reproduction of the old color; the new one is not this electric. Even the big camera had trouble with the white balance here. And yes, the contrast between the new & old colors really was this hideous in person!
Author: doug
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Tonight for dinner … Flautas.
We had these (that looked much more like what I made, and less like the article) at a cafe outside Zion National Park last year. The Anglicized version uses roughly the same ingredients you would use for tacos, just in a fancier form factor.
September 30
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Most of the foundation plantings around our house are pretty overgrown. Over the weekend I severely pruned one of the holly bushes (the non-prickly variety, thankfully. This one is in the back of the house, and I picked it for practice. It had been pretty badly abused in the past (pruning with hedge trimmers, which just promotes surface branching & growth). I think I removed about half the bush.
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I mowed the lawn today for the first time in 3 weeks — it really needed it. What this meant is that the subject of the following picture was very visible.
This is a path worn in the lawn by some sort of animal — my guess is our neighborhood fox on his rounds. If I had a motion sensor setup for my camera, I’d give it a try.