After work today I came home and took some really pretty pictures (I thought) of the ripe raspberries and the zinnias. I didn’t check them till now, almost 10 pm, after the raspberries have been picked and frozen and long after the sun has set. As it turns out none of them turned out, all were blurry. I am starting to wonder if I have a problem with my camera as I am seeing more and more blurry pics lately. Oh well.
I’ve dehydrated more tomatoes than a sane person should. I tightly packed them into 3 qt jars and stuck them in the freezer for now.
Today was the first official day of raspberry season. We are still picking blackberries every 3 days or so too. So far I haven’t netted the raspberries and probably won’t till I start seeing bird damage. The canes are still full of bees pretty much any time I look.
I pulled out another row of beans and will replant it in a couple of weeks. That will probably be my last sowing this year. I also harvested some leeks. There were some kind of larvae in some of them. I haven’t looked into trying to figure out what it was as there were plenty without them. I tried freezing some chopped leeks in chicken broth for potato leek soup later on. I had always read that you could freeze them then I read another book that said they would turn bitter. We shall see.
It has been so dry here. I have two patches of zinnias. The one on the side of the house has a good case of powdery mildew. The other has much more air circulation and is free of PM. I’ve had to water pretty much all of the veggie garden, the rhubarb and some of the flowers. I had a hose blow out this morning. One of my hoses had been hit by the mower which cut just the outer layer. Over time that spot had weakened and this morning it blew. Gotta put a new hose on my list.
I have trouble with blurry pictures too but I blame the photographer rather than the camera! I love zinnias. What kind(s) are you growing? I’m growing four different kinds this year. Three heirlooms, Persian Carpet, Candy Cane and green ones that I can’t recall the name and a fourth kind called Scabiosa that are supposed to look like Pincushion Flowers.
Hi Kerry,
What kind of camera is it? Do you use a tripod? If not I totally recommend one. My sony cybershot seemed to get blurry after awhile. If the pictures are still blurry with a tripod there is probable something wrong with the camera.
Lol I am not sure what kind of zinnias I have. Do big, medium and short count as kinds?
The camera is a Nikon Coolpix 775. The pics aren’t blurry like the camera was shaking, its more a depth of field thing. It seems to have a narrower range of focus than it used to or at least that is what it seems like to me. Like I am using a lower? aperature which gives a smaller area of focus. I’ve taken almost 7500 photos with it so perhaps it is time to retire it. I’d really like a digital slr. drool…
I love my digital slr. My child calls it my bucket of bolts. He said the other day “Mom you love me more than your camera right?” I said ahhhh do I have to choose……he knows I was just kidding.