This is the very red tomato and basil sauce I make each season, always enough for an entire winter ahead. I just cut up the tomatoes from the garden, add big handfuls of basil, also from the garden, and

I love collecting rocks. I'm the one who used to always have rocks instead of toads in my pocket as a child. I've collected little "sample" rocks from different places all over the world. Time

I took this photo of my next-door neighbor's ham radio operator's antenna that he's just built. Little does he know I have visions of decorating it with tiny Christmas lights in December! Would it electrocute

I'm always struck by this blue scene around me. Often it just seems like blue on blue on blue! Lately it's been challenging to find it, because of heavy smoke from wildfires that complcomplex mothered

playing with vignette :) wasp and spider

This very beautiful lily popped up in my garden this year. I don't remember planting it, so it's a bit of a mystery! Did some fairies with time on their hands get busy one magical night? I really don't

I tried to upload my profile pic with my intro story, but somehow although the words were fine, the pic refused to upload. So here we go again. Hope it's an improvement on the faceless head,lol.

One month review on my introduction to steemit My first 31 days on steemit I kept seeing these ransom like photos of people holding up a dated sign. Almost like a proof of life dealie. This is not mandatory

28 days later. Dear readers and subscribers let's have a chat. Pic credited to So today is my first active month on steemit. It has been 28 days to be exact since I started posting. I met one goal of having

How to really engage your audience. It all begins with the story you are trying to tell. This is one such story. Continuing my experiment of posting my videos only to Steemit for the first seven days and

I find it more interesting to bring the camera when the weather is like this than on sunny days. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" (Laozi)

I've never really been a fan of artichokes. As someone who only has a small garden, they seem to be a waste of space. But their flowers are a whole other thing, enough to make anyone gasp with amazement.

This year I thought I'd try something different with growing my leeks. It's important to blanch the lower part that you eat, because the tough green upper part isn't too tasty at all. In other years I've

Guys, please don't ask me to "upvote and follow you". It's a turn off and deal breaker. I'm not into emotional blackmail. If you like my stuff, then like it. I'm not here to fill up my news feed

You want to earn I am sure, but if you just joined you probably realize you aren't able to have much draw. No matter how good your posts are you run out of voting power fast and don't have the following

I was walking along the beach a couple of days ago when this huge bird flapped right near m, and on to a branch of a nearby tree. It was a blue heron, and the branch actually bent under it's weight. We

Lots of tiny blues here! This is a beautiful little rock plant that spills over the rock wall in my garden.

It wasn't all that long ago that when someone did something really silly you would say, "use your brains!" to indicate they need to think more carefully before repeating that again. But what

Royalty Free does not mean Free! I'm going to SHOUT THIS FROM THE ROOFTOPS till the message gets through! I've been a stock photographer for over 20 years, (and MOST of my images are ROYALTY FREE, so I

Green is definitely my favorite color, and I'm never happier than when there's a lot around me. This pic is about thinning my green apples and green leaf shoots from my little espalier apple tree! I thought