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My new desktop background

I was fooling around with the "artistic" effects on the photoshop LE and was sort of happy with this result so I left it as my desktop wallpaper. Easier than actually learning how to paint with watercolors. Speaking of which, when I was a yout', the public library had a large copy of Winslow Homer's paintings, and I've always been impressed with his watercolors of the Bahamas as they reflected the light in Key West as I saw it at the time.

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It's bluebonnet time in Texas

The standard bluebonnets waited until after spring to start blooming. they are doing quite well.

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Texas A and M bonnets

The horticulturists at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical succeeded in breeding a bluebonnet that is close enough to maroon. I bought a few nursery hothouse bred pots for the yard. The real bluebonnets are looking good, but nowhere near ready to bloom yet.

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