Those are beautiful ! Your eye is perfect !
Very nice, Grant. Those are my kind of images! Can I borrow a couple? 🙂
I’d rather borrow the garden. I adore day lilies. I have a few pink ones out back. They have somehow managed to survive the wet spring we’ve had and the terrible soil they are growing in.
JoAnn,
Where are you located geographically?
Nancy
Also the heart of the "Pennsylvania Dutch/Deutsch" area, too, is it not? I have some research to do there; wanna help me out?! 🙂
Beth, please don’t mix up "deutsch" and "dutch". To some people this might be rather sensitive. ;-))
Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands and a part of Belgium. "Deutsch" is the german word for "german" in their own language.
It is very well explained here, IMHO rather a interesting article: <
http://www.kerchner.com/padutch.htm>
BTW: "Dutch" and "Deutsch" originate from the same word "Dietsch" which means "common people".
Leen
My wife’s family was/is Pennsylvania Deutsch and while they have been in North America since 1738 she still claims to have some German blood in her veins. For those with a historical active mind her family were United Empire Loyalists.
Grant
Leen, the mix-up occurred here in the US many generations ago, where the German (Deutsch) immigrant settlers of Pennsylvania became known as….the Pennsylvania Dutch (some hearing problems among their neighbors, apparently). So I humbly suggest that Beth is quite correct in her use of Deutsch to describe the forbears of the residents of the region in which JoAnn resides!
🙂
Chuck
Grant, my first direct ancestor to come to the US was Andreas von Schneider, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1759 at the age of 20; he apparently fought in the American Revolution for the colonists.
Chuck
York isn’t in the "heart" of Pennsylvania Dutch country. We’re on the other side of the river but it’s close enough. There are some Amish farms in southern York County. Land is a bit scarce in Lancaster County. It’s beautiful here though – rolling hills, all four seasons, and we have the best tomatoes in this area.
Beth – if there’s anything I can do to help you, please let me know. I’ll do the best I can. 🙂
Chuck, tell me, how did you end up in Texas ?
My brain is so fried from the heat already, I forgot why I was even at this topic to begin with. Unfortunately, the flowers here are starting to dwindle.
Grant, it’s always a pleasure to visit your beautiful gardens…thanks for sharing your perspective. Lovely photos!
🙂
Barb
Barb and Jodi: I was transferred here on a ‘temporary rotational assignment’ in 1986…..still waiting to rotate…..
🙂
Chuck
Chuck, I’ve been meaning to rotate out of here too. Presently, for me, the only rotating is in Elements.
🙂
Barb
Hi Grant, Love your garden pictures!
Our daylillies are really nice this year due to the rain and cool in the NE USA. I have a few pictures, learning how to do the PSE web galleries, so nice and so easy. All I need now is to get them onto the web, or at least pbase. Flowers are so much fun! Our dogs and grandkids are getting old enough that they don’t thrash the gardens so much any more.
Jane
Grant-
Thanks for the beautiful flower images.
A curiousity question, since I’m too lazy to figure it out.
How do you get the gradual fade-in from one image to the next? I have access to PageMill for Web page creation. Do you know if I can do it in that web editor?
The soft transtion from image to image enhances the lovely soft effect of the flowers.
Al
GRANT,
My ‘sitting a spell’ is always so relaxing in your gardens. Thanks for the invite. My favorite was ….. oh hec, can’t decide.
J0 ANN,
Thanks for the memory lane from my Cartography class. I lived in Trenton about 10 years so was in Lancaster a couple times…beautiful area.
Marty
If anyone is ever in the Lancaster area, drop me a line, we can meet for coffee or tea.
I’m playing tour guide with friends from Northern Jersey on Friday. We’re going to do the "Amish thing". My 1.3MP camera may not be the greatest but it’ll do. Too bad there will be a new challenge by then. I can see the little bikers head with a black brimmed hat and beard leading a horse-drawn plough. Too back it’s not tobacco harvesting time – lots of wagons around.
Al
It is an effect that take advantage of a little bit of gee-wow that Microsoft built into Internet Explorer. Add this code in the header and the first line fades-in the second line fades-out, the duration is in seconds.
<meta http-equiv="page-enter" content="blendtrans(duration =1.0)"> <meta http-equiv="page-exit" content="blendtrans(duration =1.0)">
Grant
Grant!
!I got it! !I got it! !It works!
You are supreme!
Al
Hi All from Olympia, WA. Yes indeed a might of a skip from all of you, but was back in Albany, NY area last summer.
Grant- the bench image on the front of your garden page is the coolest. Was it created in Photoshop? If so, how can I recreate the effect. I MUST HAVE IT!:)
Greg
Greg
I am almost ashamed to tell you how it was done. I took a well exposed and framed image, I then resized it and just ran it through a plug in called Virtual Painter all in a couple of seconds flat.
Grant
Grant-
Nothing to be ashamed of. One thing that I HAVE learned with PS is that you can do some cool things with very little effort. Do you have a link for that. I have a new nephew that I would love to put in some "wonderland" type settings. The vivid colors are fun. I have been taking photos in my garden too. I have a Sony Mavica CD300.
Greg