Day 1 Conditioning

Perfect day to start the conditioning! Light rain so I don't have to water :-)

1/2 cup of lawn fertilizer per bale

 

 

April 28/16 - day 5 of conditioning, I made a horrible discovery that the lawn fertilizer that I was using had an 80 % slow release! So I reached out to the SBG group on FB and this is what the advice is.

 

I found some 46-0-0 at Farmers Supply and immediately started again. Luckily we had a downpour and I am hoping that the slow release has been "released"!

 

 

 

....and we got us some wood chips!

25 days since I planted tomatoes

10 days since I planted the basil

Zucchini....yikes!

Lettuce planted 7 days...am going to transplant later as I do not want to lose these.

April 24 & 25 weather

This is what happens when you let these pucks dry out. I am not a happy camper. I transplanted into a bigger pot and have my fingers crossed that these will survive. I planted new ones just in case :-(

My drip irrigation system

 

Also planted sunflowers and Swiss chard

Yesterday AAA came out and knocked down some trees....

Tree #1

Tree #2

Sure opens up our view and more sun on the garden :-)

Tree #4

It was fun watching them work. They sure know what they were doing.

 

 

 

We got us some chips!

 

 

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Night Photography

I gave it a go and tried some night shots. This was between 9 & 10 pm. Haven't really used my tripod much...had a few giggles setting it up....pinched a couple of fingers....ow! Thought that the moon would probably disappear by the time I got it up! Lol...

I played with aperture, lens, zoom in, zoom out. It was so cool how much the lighting changed. Now if I could get the focus right...hmmmm...I need to get me one of those remote thingy's...

 

 

The clouds and stars were incredible!

 

 

 

 

This one has been photoshopped, shared to Lightroom and then saved to my camera roll in order to get on iPad

 

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Lightroom

Playing around in Lightroom, very limited on the iPad but still kinda' cool...next going to play on my computer and see how much further I can go....

My favourite place for fish & chips! Jiggers in Ucluelet

Longbeach at Spring Break....very rainy and hard to take pics when one is holding an inside out umbrella in one hand and a camera in the other!

Chesterman Beach at Christmas. So much warmer than Spring Break!

Pacific Coast Trail

Ucluelet

Christina Lake

On the BC ferry

 

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Playing at Kokanee Park

Shot with my 18-55 mm lens

Worked on in Lightroom

 

 

 

Trying to figure out composition

 

I was really captured by the texture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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