Goose Gourd

Goose Gourd Bouquet

During our road trip through Bolton, CT, my son and I spotted an off road farmer's stand on the other side of the street. It had several vases of floral arraignments visible from the road with a sign that said $6.00. We stopped and thought it would be nice to bring flowers home to Donna. My son, Joe, got out of the car and walked over to the stand to see what they had. He had bought flowers from this farmer before and knew they were honest and reasonable. Way in the back of the shelf, he spotted this bouquet.

He came back to the car empty handed and told me he saw a beautiful arraignment for $20.00 and he had to get more money. I gave him $10.00 and he had $10.00 in his pocket. He came back to the car with this heavy gourd in both hands. It was comical to watch when he tried to open the car door all the water poured out on his shirt. Of course, once I stopped laughing, I got out to help him.

I never expected anything like this! There was a little note attached to this bouquet saying that when the flowers go bad, the gourd is edible. It is called a Goose Gourd; the photo shows why. Needless to say, his wife, Donna, loved this little surprise.

Safety Harbor Pier

This is another photo from last night's Meetup. It was raining and I wanted to make a different mood shot of the pier we've all photographed so much.

This is the result of a little bit of digital playing in Photoshop. While the nature of this photograph was already moody, I was looking for something more. I added a texture that resembles a soft rain (at least I think so) and added a simple frame.

Tell me what you think of this one by leaving a comment. I'm more of a realist and this is a little bit out of my comfort zone, but I kind of like the results. Click on it to see it more clearly.

Keyboards

This was taken during my visit to CT 3 weeks ago. It is actually a close-up of my son's fingers playing keyboards during practice.

He hasn't seen this one yet, but I plan to publish it to his website once I'm done with all the photos I took in CT, MA and NY on my vacation.

I really like the way this one turned out. I did something similar last year, but this one is much better (at least in my opinion).

I've been thinking about doing a musician's series, or maybe just a music series of digitally enhanced images I've taken through the years. I have many I've done at my son's band's practices. I'll just see what I can come up with.