Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A Snirt for your Thoughts!


According to United States House Committee on Agriculture, General Farm Bill of 1985: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, page 924- Snirt, a mixture of snow and dirt is the term popularly applied to the windrows of dirt along the roads during a winter.


I'd like to thank koobadog for coming to my building and explaining some thing s about my prints! Some pretty fascinating subjects and I would urge all of you that if you have not taken a tour of the Wisconsin State Capitol you really should.

When I was on our 6th floor putting up my prints up a woman with a British accent came up and was marveling at my work and said that more people should pay attention to our Capitol. She said "In Europe you have to pay to tour a building as beautiful as our State Capitol".

Now there are more things I must photogize and in the next few days you might see "The Ghost of the General Assembly"

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You can tell with the photo on the top of this blog that I'm a little desperate for things to photograph.  I've sunken to taking shots of black garbage snow!

This is not the best time for taking images so when this happens I start to play around and "practice" techniques and ideas just to see what works, what does not, what sucks and what's "cool".

The next few images actually look better 20x30 (I assume) and are not meant to be small but . . . very few of you have 30 inch computer screens.  But - I'm putting them out there any who.

Day lilies from my Clay Garden


Tulips from the Capitol


much prettier then snirt
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It seems the earthquake in Chili shifted a few things including the Falkland Islands by 10 feet so expect your GPS units to be a little screwy when you drive there. 
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I'm sort of laughing at the Brewers in Arizona.  Seems our weather the last few days is better then in Arizona!  That played in 43 degree and spitting rain yesterday!

And lastly - how about those Milwaukee Bucks!  Winning 10 of last 11 and beating Boston last night and solid for the Playoff's!

I have nothing else!

Rod

4 comments:

  1. Another blogger has termed the black garbage snow as snirt. I kind of like it. The term, not the snow, that is.

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  2. My pleasure - anytime! It was great to finally meet you and see your work in person - it is candy for the eyes.

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  3. Great Blog!

    Snirt is so ugly, and so our all the lawns and such.
    I hate this time of year. everything looks so ugly and blahhhhh

    But hope is around the corner with these temps starting to go up!

    Glad you had a good chat with Koo.

    Love the photos of your garden flowers.

    Hope everyone stays safe tonight and in the morning.

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