WindsorDi's photos

Photoshop Elements, Paintshop or any image editing suite with filter tools: Whatever program you're using, start with a square-cropped image. Under Effects( or Filters), - select "Distortion," (or Distort) …. and then select "Polar Coordinates." 1) Convert Polar to Rectangle. 2) Flip the image right side up again. 3) Convert Rectangle to Polar. Bingo! You have an Orb.

Photoshop Elements, Paintshop or any image editing suite with filter tools: Whatever program you're using, start with a square-cropped image. Under Effects( or Filters), - select "Distortion," (or Distort) …. and then select "Polar Coordinates." 1) Convert Polar to Rectangle. 2) Flip the image right side up again. 3) Convert Rectangle to Polar. Bingo! You have an Orb.

The chimes have had a softer voice and need a stronger wind gust to make them sing...

... a great, if short-lived bloom.

whole shrub is covered... yummy!

A close up of the centre

This this brave mother ( or maybe inexperienced?!) had selected a busy parking lot median in Devonshire Mall for her nest site... Shoppers were getting *warned* away by her mate!

tiny as they are, they are already working in watchful teams...

even the tiniest ripples are enough to tumble these tiny goslings... just a few days old...