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My first pond flower!

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I took my laptop down to my garden to work on some web pages. I like to sit there so that the scenery isn’t always the same old office set up. I love being surprised by my garden. As I walked by my bathtub pond I saw something bobbing in the water under the waterfall and it was a water lily!!! I was certain it wasn’t going to bloom. I was having so much trouble with the water hardness and other things that I gave up on those plants a while ago. I guess I was wrong because there it was in the water. I had my iphone with me and turned the flower around to face me (careful not to drop my iPhone in the water!). Then with the little photo applications that are offered by the App store at Apple I sharpened it some and increased the contrast etc. I don’t think it did too bad for a camera phone!

Played around with the apps on the iPhone
Played around with the apps on the iPhone

Teeny weeny tomatoes

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liltomatos

Gosh these are so cute! Literally handfulls of tomatoes 🙂

These are red current tomatoes and are indeterminate. It took me a little while to pick all these and there are literally hundreds more on the plant. Besides being incredibly small they are really sweet in flavor. I think they would be great in salads or anything you want to throw a little tomatoe into.

Another thing they are good for is hanging baskets. I have one plant in a hanging basket and it has many flowers but no fruit yet.

Here is a link to someone I think beat the size of mine. Look how she has them right inside a thimble!

Little trees

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Little trees
Little trees

Just took this photo with my new iphone. I love its selective focus and macro capabilities. Makes it so much easier to share a quick picture.

In addition to just taking this snapshot with the iPhone I played around with the image with a few of the iPhone apps. Most notably one called color splash. I thought of it because I was having trouble getting focus on the little green plants with all the busy green plants in the background. I like the glass sun of my garden stand and I wanted to frame it with the trees but it wasn’t working. With color splash it makes the whole image B&W and then you just use your finger to “paint” back in the color of the original image. You can zoom in to do fine detail or zoom out to do big brush strokes.

The other apps I used on this image was photogene to adjust the levels, color saturation and temperature. I also added the soft dark edge in this program as well as a slight crop. Then I opened it in Picoli to sharpen it. Between these apps I practically have photoshop on my iPhone!

These little trees/bushes are so cute that I saw at Raley’s that I couldnt’ resist. They were bone dry so I hope they make it. When my new office at work is finished I will have a window so I may take them there since they are so little but for the time being they are in my fern garden.

The names are from left to right: ‘wilma’ lemon cypress (cupressus macrocarpa), european olive (olea europaea), lavender, ‘microphyllus’ dwarf euonymus (euonymus japonica).