John Deere H
This is my artistic interpretation of the original image, in an idea I got from my old college advisor and the truck picture to which he did a similar thing earlier this summer.
As I was looking through the parade pictures, this one stuck out as an excellent candidate for the process. I didn’t do it with color range selection, but rather with some fairly simple layering (somewhat like a mask) in Photoshop. I really like how it turned out.
So I took more time out of my evening to work on the aforementioned picture, which became tonight’s blog picture. I really like how it turned out (and I like this version much better than the original).
I managed to play some Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo tonight. Good times. I got into the third world (including all of the secret stuff of world two) before we ate supper and later got sidetracked while working on the picture.
But, we had a pretty good supper. Managed to eat far more squash than I probably should have, but it was very much on the good order. I’m glad we have more (that’s now been cooked)! I always have liked squash, but we don’t all that often have it.
Other than that, it’s been a pretty quiet evening. We had just over 3/4″ of rain between about 3:30 and 5:15PM tonight, and we’ve had more since then (although I’ve not gone to check the rain gauge since I got home tonight, so that’ll be tomorrow). I don’t believe it’ll be much more than .1″ or .2″, but that’s just based upon my observations tonight.
Some rain is good, because I noticed the grass was starting to get a little brown in spots again. I should do some overseeding in some places here in the next two weeks or so, since this is really the best time to start growing grass. Time to mix up some roundup and tackle those tough spots, then seed some grass to cover ’em up.
I discovered a product yesterday called EcoLawn. I don’t have the link for it right off hand, but it apparently is a very deep-rooted grass that, due to its deep root structure, requires little unnatural watering and is very drought tolerant. Additionally, it’s a fine-bladed grass, so at a certain height it falls over on itself. The sales pitch there is (in addition to being a slower-growing grass) that mowing can be less-frequent, because the grass only reaches a certain visible height.
I’m not so sure I buy that part, especially if the grass doesn’t grow consistently across or throughout the yard. You’ll still end up with really lush patches and then the wiry ones. Mowing tends to help even out the look even if it’s only temporary.
On another random thread, I talked to my uncle over in Wheaton tonight for a few minutes. We’re finally going to be getting together again — this time on Sunday. Should be a good time, and I think we’re both looking forward to heading over that direction for a few hours of entertainment. Kirstin will almost surely enjoy herself as well.
Anyway, that’s about all for tonight, so until next time…
“There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
– C. A. R. Hoare
–MZ