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WebCollage – cool site

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Hey, I was just looking at my site stats and I saw that a strange bot had been spidering my sites. It’s called WebCollage and it’s located at jwz.org/webcollage/ . There was a link to it so I clicked, fully expecting to be taken to a 404 page, but much to my surprise it’s a real website.

I guess the site has spiders that regularly monitor the internet for images and it creates collages with all the images that it finds. Visit the page to see what the collage looks like right now. Wait a few minutes and it will refresh on it’s own and you’ll see yet another interesting collage.

Cool site.

Note- I’ve been told that some of the photos in the collages might be distasteful or even offensive so be aware! I didn’t see any of that when I visited in the night, but it pulls images from all over and obviously doesn’t screen them first. I was linking to the site, but if it links to sites in “bad neighborhoods” I don’t want my site associated.





Lovely budding gladiola

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gladiola bud

I love gladiolas. They are an old fashioned flower, but so lovely in the garden. This photo is of gladiola buds. I think the flowers were fully open about a day or two later.

I rarely cut the flowers in my garden as I prefer to enjoy them by looking at them from within the house or while in in the garden, but if I were to cut some flowers gladiolas would be a good choice. Especially if they were buds that were just opening like this one. The cut gladiolas would continue to open in the vase and would last about a week.

Do you cut flowers from your garden? What’s your favorite type to bring indoors?

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Traveling in style

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VW bike

I’ve always loved old mini VW vans, but I’ve never seen one this small!

I wonder what this biker keeps in his tiny VW? Great for storage or even a pet but certainly not a person. Ok, well I suppose an infant or child could ride in the VW sidecar too.

Have you ever seen motor bikes done up in funny ways like this?

Ready to buy a telephoto lense

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The other day I decided to do some serious hunting for a telephoto lens for my Canon Digital SLR camera.

I found two lenses that I wanted to purchase. On Amazon of all places, and the price wasn’t too bad, but then I noticed that they would only ship those items to American addresses.

So … who knows of a great place to get camera lenses and accessories online for a good price? A place that ships throughout North America of course. Maybe Ebay? Any other ideas for me?

I was all set to plunk down about $700! It’s there loss. I’ll find the lenses I want at a good price somewhere else.

Pretty in yellow

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My brown eyed susans are still blooming. They aren’t looking quite as nice as the ones in this photo which was taken in early August, but they are still blooming.

Do you grow Brown eyed susan? (rudbeckia) Each year I have to pull out a number of plants as they spread very easily in my garden. I suppose some of the spread is related to reseeding themselves, but most of the spread that I’ve noticed is from underground roots growing outward. New plants come up on these roots and I end up pulling out quite a few each year as a result.

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