Sunday, July 21, 2024

Neighborhood follies

 







I haven't been out taking pictures on my neighborhood walks very often this Summer. Perhaps a combination of my rib breaking and the intense rains got in the way. But it has been a glorious Summer from all that rain. It is lush and rich with exotic mushrooms, a family of turkeys nearby, and adorable bunnies everywhere!

So I finally went out with my camera and...


I didn't see much.


The cute mushrooms were all destroyed by someone's lawnmower.

The thousands of bunnies were on their midday nap.

And the family of two turkeys with their ten babies were on a brief hiatus.


I didn't let it stop me though. I took some pictures of flowers, and some of my little local stream in dappled sunlight, and some of leaves with jeweled dewdrops decorating them. A few of the pictures were possibly even nice enough to show you here on their own. But I'm a bit too mad with the power of AI to resist an occasional embellishment.

Well, maybe a bit more than occasional.

So some, let's face it, most of these, have been, er, tampered with. But not all! And they are all rooted in the simple local scenes of my neighborhood. Which is to say... they're all real, but fake.













































































































































































































































































































































































































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