Happy New Year!

The Idol Garden

This is my delicious purple version of a Ganesha statue I ordered from Amazon. It’s presiding in a place of honor in my elephant shrine. Oh look! There’s a skinny old Santa lurking in the background on the left.

Thanks to the amazing Samsung Galaxy S4, I also created green, blue, and orange versions of the same original image. They’re the first group of images to appear in my new “Idol Garden” gallery on Smugmug. I’ll be featuring more images of Ganeshas, Buddhas, garden gnomes, gargoyles, cigar store Indians, and other mythical creatures I’ve encountered in my travels.

PS — More about Ganesha, Lord of pleasure and no worries, on Wikipedia.

PSS — There are affiliate links to Amazon, and Smugmug on this page.

Thanks for dropping by!

Azure Blue Sunflowers

2015-06-10 S4 742 Blue Urban Flowers sunflower framed

How’d they get that color? Probably the Blue Fairy. Gepetto and Pinocchio anyone?

Actually, these were a fiery orange-red, on sale out front at Urban Flowers in the Castro, SF CA. I was fiddling with the tint option in my photo editor and found this color gave it a magical feel.

Click on the picture, or on this link for more amazing floral photography at The Daily Flower, another of my internet blogging experiments.

And, thanks for dropping by.

Saving Up For Thailand

Saving up, Thailand style. Guess I should get started, I’m leaving next week.

 

Saving up for Thailand. Guess I better get started I'm leaving next week.

 

Everything’s for sale in a pushcart somewhere. I grabbed this picture on a very late night joy walk on Thappraya Road, near a night market. In the quiet part of Pattaya: Jomtien.