Saturday Garden boo hoo hoo

 Hi Everyone!

We had a nice day today so together 

Mr. M. and I worked on the garden area. Ya know taking it all down. I'm heartbroken.

I knew I was going to be upset not having a garden this year, but I didn't think it would affect me so much. 

We did all of this work on Friday. 

Mr. M. did the heavy lifting and I got things ready for a dump run. This kind of work is so hard on Mr. M. with his health. But he is a trooper and never gives up.

He got all three raised beds dug up. 

 

I didn't think galvanized rusted.

 

However, I was wrong.

 

I emptied totes that had poly, and starter pots in them. I will see if my neighbor wants the starter post but the poly will go to the recycle at the dump.

 

I washed and sterilized more 5 gallon containers that I will keep.

 

I want to save this piece of poly so I hung it up and will wash it tomorrow. It has a lot of pollen on it.

 

Mr. M. got all of the plants off of this platform and stacked lumber on it. It really sucks not having a garage or an outbuilding to store things.

All but 3 totes are going to the dump tomorrow.  

 After everything is cleared away we will weed wack and mow. 

I guess that's it for now.

Hope you are having a nice Saturday.  

It's supposed to be 73°F here today.

 Nicole

FFO Friday Face OFF 4/17/26

Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography, drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. 

Thank you.

I'm still feeling WELL and yesterday got a clean bill of health on my eye. The sun is shining and right now we are OK.

However, because of circumstances out of my control I did not have any time to create a face. So this week I give you what I have been obsessing on. 

Birds.

These are all taken from the internet and I really watched not to get AI birds.

 

There are the pretty ones 

 

 

There are the fancy ones

 

I can't leave out the Dracula Parrot.  

 

Or this King Vulture 

Or this little guy that pretty much says, "Don't mess with me." 

 

I love all of these faces. 

 

 

 

But my favorite has to be this cheeky Secretary Bird

 

I mean come on, she is a star.

I did learn this. Some birds have a row of bristles that protrude from the end of their eyelids that can be called eyelashes. But while human eyelashes are modified hairs that protect the eye, bird eyelashes are modified feathers.

 

No AI faces today. 

 

Here are the features.

Louise from Standing in Danger has not been feeling well. Hope she is doing better by now. 

 

Linda from LinsArt  This wasn't planned to show a bird. I use number generator. It worked out though. 

Two reminders.

 

Please use this image on your post. Thank you. 

First, FFO Portrait Challenge is April 24th.

Please show a face that you have created in any art form including photographs that portray one or all of these expressions.

Happy, Sad, Tired, Surprised and or Anger. 
 

Please use this image on your post. Thank you. 

The next reminder is for 

Sunday in the Art Room, SITAR

It is ANYTHING art that you would like to share.

That's it for me. 

Now show me your face

Nicole   

Tuesday Flowers

 Hi Everyone!

Today the sun was shinning so I thought I would check out the soil in my big garden. Yep, it is rich and so ready for planting. I'm not going to take the chance of hurting myself so I will let the soil sit this year. Feed it and have it ready for, maybe, next year. In the mean time I walked across the street to my good friend Elke's house and took some photos of her flower garden. She was out weeding. We had a nice visit too.

 

 

It's spring here and it's showing.

Nicole 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monster Monday with some pretties

 Welcome to

I'm getting back my full strength and self. when this happens I have an excess of energy. I can feel it coming on and it is AWESOME!

Now for the 

monsters I have created with NightCafe. 

I love these guys! This is the original AI that I created.

Then I ran the image through creative upscale. This gives more detail. Too cool. 

Here is another

creative upscale 

These were created with stable diffusion  

 

Stable diffusion is a powerful AI text to image model that converts text prompt into photorealistic or artistic images then denoising the latent representation of the image.  I find the distortion quite  appealing for my warped brain. LOL

However, for those of you who have normal brains here are some pretties. Also, if I can create pretties I'm not too warped. 😀

From realistic to different styles of paintings. 

Finally the same prompt using stable diffusion.

That's it for me. Wishing all of you a happy Monday.
 Nicole